API: Return transcribed text

[powellnorma]

Looking at the code, I don't see how the library user is supposed to access the transcribed text?
It looks like it just gets printed?

WhisperLive/whisper_live/client.py

Line 123 in e1a42c2

utils.print_transcript(text)

I think a workaround would be to read the output.srt - But maybe we could also just return the transcribed text as string?

[makaveli10]

@powellnorma Thanks for using the library. I think you make a good point, we can bring this feature in an upcoming release.

[tidymonkey81]

i've just got my custom fast-whisper model working on a docker server and am looking where i can implement this myself. i haven't changed volume threshold settings for VAD yet but i get a lot of junk tokens. with slow whisper i implemented a black list for phrases like "Thank you", "Thanks very much", etc that get thrown out by the model. I think i can see where to look at transcribe() in transcriber.py to maybe select phrases and so expose them but the process seems expensive so i might need to look further.