Source code for speechbrain.inference.ASR

""" Specifies the inference interfaces for Automatic speech Recognition (ASR) modules.

Authors:
 * Aku Rouhe 2021
 * Peter Plantinga 2021
 * Loren Lugosch 2020
 * Mirco Ravanelli 2020
 * Titouan Parcollet 2021
 * Abdel Heba 2021
 * Andreas Nautsch 2022, 2023
 * Pooneh Mousavi 2023
 * Sylvain de Langen 2023, 2024
 * Adel Moumen 2023, 2024
 * Pradnya Kandarkar 2023
"""
from dataclasses import dataclass
from typing import Any, Optional, List
import itertools
import torch
import torchaudio
import sentencepiece
import speechbrain
from speechbrain.inference.interfaces import Pretrained
import functools
from speechbrain.utils.fetching import fetch
from speechbrain.utils.data_utils import split_path
from speechbrain.utils.dynamic_chunk_training import DynChunkTrainConfig
from speechbrain.utils.streaming import split_fixed_chunks


[docs] class EncoderDecoderASR(Pretrained): """A ready-to-use Encoder-Decoder ASR model The class can be used either to run only the encoder (encode()) to extract features or to run the entire encoder-decoder model (transcribe()) to transcribe speech. The given YAML must contain the fields specified in the *_NEEDED[] lists. Example ------- >>> from speechbrain.inference.ASR import EncoderDecoderASR >>> tmpdir = getfixture("tmpdir") >>> asr_model = EncoderDecoderASR.from_hparams( ... source="speechbrain/asr-crdnn-rnnlm-librispeech", ... savedir=tmpdir, ... ) # doctest: +SKIP >>> asr_model.transcribe_file("tests/samples/single-mic/example2.flac") # doctest: +SKIP "MY FATHER HAS REVEALED THE CULPRIT'S NAME" """ HPARAMS_NEEDED = ["tokenizer"] MODULES_NEEDED = ["encoder", "decoder"] def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super().__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.tokenizer = self.hparams.tokenizer self.transducer_beam_search = False self.transformer_beam_search = False if hasattr(self.hparams, "transducer_beam_search"): self.transducer_beam_search = self.hparams.transducer_beam_search if hasattr(self.hparams, "transformer_beam_search"): self.transformer_beam_search = self.hparams.transformer_beam_search
[docs] def transcribe_file(self, path, **kwargs): """Transcribes the given audiofile into a sequence of words. Arguments --------- path : str Path to audio file which to transcribe. Returns ------- str The audiofile transcription produced by this ASR system. """ waveform = self.load_audio(path, **kwargs) # Fake a batch: batch = waveform.unsqueeze(0) rel_length = torch.tensor([1.0]) predicted_words, predicted_tokens = self.transcribe_batch( batch, rel_length ) return predicted_words[0]
[docs] def encode_batch(self, wavs, wav_lens): """Encodes the input audio into a sequence of hidden states The waveforms should already be in the model's desired format. You can call: ``normalized = EncoderDecoderASR.normalizer(signal, sample_rate)`` to get a correctly converted signal in most cases. Arguments --------- wavs : torch.Tensor Batch of waveforms [batch, time, channels] or [batch, time] depending on the model. wav_lens : torch.Tensor Lengths of the waveforms relative to the longest one in the batch, tensor of shape [batch]. The longest one should have relative length 1.0 and others len(waveform) / max_length. Used for ignoring padding. Returns ------- torch.Tensor The encoded batch """ wavs = wavs.float() wavs, wav_lens = wavs.to(self.device), wav_lens.to(self.device) encoder_out = self.mods.encoder(wavs, wav_lens) if self.transformer_beam_search: encoder_out = self.mods.transformer.encode(encoder_out, wav_lens) return encoder_out
[docs] def transcribe_batch(self, wavs, wav_lens): """Transcribes the input audio into a sequence of words The waveforms should already be in the model's desired format. You can call: ``normalized = EncoderDecoderASR.normalizer(signal, sample_rate)`` to get a correctly converted signal in most cases. Arguments --------- wavs : torch.Tensor Batch of waveforms [batch, time, channels] or [batch, time] depending on the model. wav_lens : torch.Tensor Lengths of the waveforms relative to the longest one in the batch, tensor of shape [batch]. The longest one should have relative length 1.0 and others len(waveform) / max_length. Used for ignoring padding. Returns ------- list Each waveform in the batch transcribed. tensor Each predicted token id. """ with torch.no_grad(): wav_lens = wav_lens.to(self.device) encoder_out = self.encode_batch(wavs, wav_lens) if self.transducer_beam_search: inputs = [encoder_out] else: inputs = [encoder_out, wav_lens] predicted_tokens, _, _, _ = self.mods.decoder(*inputs) predicted_words = [ self.tokenizer.decode_ids(token_seq) for token_seq in predicted_tokens ] return predicted_words, predicted_tokens
[docs] def forward(self, wavs, wav_lens): """Runs full transcription - note: no gradients through decoding""" return self.transcribe_batch(wavs, wav_lens)
[docs] class EncoderASR(Pretrained): """A ready-to-use Encoder ASR model The class can be used either to run only the encoder (encode()) to extract features or to run the entire encoder + decoder function model (transcribe()) to transcribe speech. The given YAML must contain the fields specified in the *_NEEDED[] lists. Example ------- >>> from speechbrain.inference.ASR import EncoderASR >>> tmpdir = getfixture("tmpdir") >>> asr_model = EncoderASR.from_hparams( ... source="speechbrain/asr-wav2vec2-commonvoice-fr", ... savedir=tmpdir, ... ) # doctest: +SKIP >>> asr_model.transcribe_file("samples/audio_samples/example_fr.wav") # doctest: +SKIP """ HPARAMS_NEEDED = ["tokenizer", "decoding_function"] MODULES_NEEDED = ["encoder"] def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super().__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.tokenizer = self.hparams.tokenizer self.set_decoding_function()
[docs] def set_decoding_function(self): """Set the decoding function based on the parameters defined in the hyperparameter file. The decoding function is determined by the `decoding_function` specified in the hyperparameter file. It can be either a functools.partial object representing a decoding function or an instance of `speechbrain.decoders.ctc.CTCBaseSearcher` for beam search decoding. Raises: ValueError: If the decoding function is neither a functools.partial nor an instance of speechbrain.decoders.ctc.CTCBaseSearcher. Note: - For greedy decoding (functools.partial), the provided `decoding_function` is assigned directly. - For CTCBeamSearcher decoding, an instance of the specified `decoding_function` is created, and additional parameters are added based on the tokenizer type. """ # Greedy Decoding case if isinstance(self.hparams.decoding_function, functools.partial): self.decoding_function = self.hparams.decoding_function # CTCBeamSearcher case else: # 1. check if the decoding function is an instance of speechbrain.decoders.CTCBaseSearcher if issubclass( self.hparams.decoding_function, speechbrain.decoders.ctc.CTCBaseSearcher, ): # If so, we need to retrieve the vocab list from the tokenizer. # We also need to check if the tokenizer is a sentencepiece or a CTCTextEncoder. if isinstance( self.tokenizer, speechbrain.dataio.encoder.CTCTextEncoder ): ind2lab = self.tokenizer.ind2lab vocab_list = [ind2lab[x] for x in range(len(ind2lab))] elif isinstance( self.tokenizer, sentencepiece.SentencePieceProcessor ): vocab_list = [ self.tokenizer.id_to_piece(i) for i in range(self.tokenizer.vocab_size()) ] else: raise ValueError( "The tokenizer must be sentencepiece or CTCTextEncoder" ) # We can now instantiate the decoding class and add all the parameters if hasattr(self.hparams, "test_beam_search"): opt_beam_search_params = self.hparams.test_beam_search # check if the kenlm_model_path is provided and fetch it if necessary if "kenlm_model_path" in opt_beam_search_params: source, fl = split_path( opt_beam_search_params["kenlm_model_path"] ) kenlm_model_path = str( fetch(fl, source=source, savedir=".") ) # we need to update the kenlm_model_path in the opt_beam_search_params opt_beam_search_params[ "kenlm_model_path" ] = kenlm_model_path else: opt_beam_search_params = {} self.decoding_function = self.hparams.decoding_function( **opt_beam_search_params, vocab_list=vocab_list ) else: raise ValueError( "The decoding function must be an instance of speechbrain.decoders.CTCBaseSearcher" )
[docs] def transcribe_file(self, path, **kwargs): """Transcribes the given audiofile into a sequence of words. Arguments --------- path : str Path to audio file which to transcribe. Returns ------- str The audiofile transcription produced by this ASR system. """ waveform = self.load_audio(path, **kwargs) # Fake a batch: batch = waveform.unsqueeze(0) rel_length = torch.tensor([1.0]) predicted_words, predicted_tokens = self.transcribe_batch( batch, rel_length ) return str(predicted_words[0])
[docs] def encode_batch(self, wavs, wav_lens): """Encodes the input audio into a sequence of hidden states The waveforms should already be in the model's desired format. You can call: ``normalized = EncoderASR.normalizer(signal, sample_rate)`` to get a correctly converted signal in most cases. Arguments --------- wavs : torch.Tensor Batch of waveforms [batch, time, channels] or [batch, time] depending on the model. wav_lens : torch.Tensor Lengths of the waveforms relative to the longest one in the batch, tensor of shape [batch]. The longest one should have relative length 1.0 and others len(waveform) / max_length. Used for ignoring padding. Returns ------- torch.Tensor The encoded batch """ wavs = wavs.float() wavs, wav_lens = wavs.to(self.device), wav_lens.to(self.device) encoder_out = self.mods.encoder(wavs, wav_lens) return encoder_out
[docs] def transcribe_batch(self, wavs, wav_lens): """Transcribes the input audio into a sequence of words The waveforms should already be in the model's desired format. You can call: ``normalized = EncoderASR.normalizer(signal, sample_rate)`` to get a correctly converted signal in most cases. Arguments --------- wavs : torch.Tensor Batch of waveforms [batch, time, channels] or [batch, time] depending on the model. wav_lens : torch.Tensor Lengths of the waveforms relative to the longest one in the batch, tensor of shape [batch]. The longest one should have relative length 1.0 and others len(waveform) / max_length. Used for ignoring padding. Returns ------- list Each waveform in the batch transcribed. tensor Each predicted token id. """ with torch.no_grad(): wav_lens = wav_lens.to(self.device) encoder_out = self.encode_batch(wavs, wav_lens) predictions = self.decoding_function(encoder_out, wav_lens) is_ctc_text_encoder_tokenizer = isinstance( self.tokenizer, speechbrain.dataio.encoder.CTCTextEncoder ) if isinstance(self.hparams.decoding_function, functools.partial): if is_ctc_text_encoder_tokenizer: predicted_words = [ "".join(self.tokenizer.decode_ndim(token_seq)) for token_seq in predictions ] else: predicted_words = [ self.tokenizer.decode_ids(token_seq) for token_seq in predictions ] else: predicted_words = [hyp[0].text for hyp in predictions] return predicted_words, predictions
[docs] def forward(self, wavs, wav_lens): """Runs the encoder""" return self.encode_batch(wavs, wav_lens)
[docs] class WhisperASR(Pretrained): """A ready-to-use Whisper ASR model The class can be used to run the entire encoder-decoder whisper model (transcribe()) to transcribe speech. The given YAML must contains the fields specified in the *_NEEDED[] lists. Example ------- >>> from speechbrain.inference.ASR import WhisperASR >>> tmpdir = getfixture("tmpdir") >>> asr_model = WhisperASR.from_hparams(source="speechbrain/asr-whisper-medium-commonvoice-it", savedir=tmpdir,) # doctest: +SKIP >>> asr_model.transcribe_file("speechbrain/asr-whisper-medium-commonvoice-it/example-it.wav") # doctest: +SKIP """ HPARAMS_NEEDED = ["language"] MODULES_NEEDED = ["whisper", "decoder"] def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super().__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.tokenizer = self.hparams.whisper.tokenizer self.tokenizer.set_prefix_tokens( self.hparams.language, "transcribe", False ) self.hparams.decoder.set_decoder_input_tokens( self.tokenizer.prefix_tokens )
[docs] def transcribe_file(self, path): """Transcribes the given audiofile into a sequence of words. Arguments --------- path : str Path to audio file which to transcribe. Returns ------- str The audiofile transcription produced by this ASR system. """ waveform = self.load_audio(path) # Fake a batch: batch = waveform.unsqueeze(0) rel_length = torch.tensor([1.0]) predicted_words, predicted_tokens = self.transcribe_batch( batch, rel_length ) return " ".join(predicted_words[0])
[docs] def encode_batch(self, wavs, wav_lens): """Encodes the input audio into a sequence of hidden states The waveforms should already be in the model's desired format. You can call: ``normalized = EncoderDecoderASR.normalizer(signal, sample_rate)`` to get a correctly converted signal in most cases. Arguments --------- wavs : torch.tensor Batch of waveforms [batch, time, channels]. wav_lens : torch.tensor Lengths of the waveforms relative to the longest one in the batch, tensor of shape [batch]. The longest one should have relative length 1.0 and others len(waveform) / max_length. Used for ignoring padding. Returns ------- torch.tensor The encoded batch """ wavs = wavs.float() wavs, wav_lens = wavs.to(self.device), wav_lens.to(self.device) encoder_out = self.mods.whisper.forward_encoder(wavs) return encoder_out
[docs] def transcribe_batch(self, wavs, wav_lens): """Transcribes the input audio into a sequence of words The waveforms should already be in the model's desired format. You can call: ``normalized = EncoderDecoderASR.normalizer(signal, sample_rate)`` to get a correctly converted signal in most cases. Arguments --------- wavs : torch.tensor Batch of waveforms [batch, time, channels]. wav_lens : torch.tensor Lengths of the waveforms relative to the longest one in the batch, tensor of shape [batch]. The longest one should have relative length 1.0 and others len(waveform) / max_length. Used for ignoring padding. Returns ------- list Each waveform in the batch transcribed. tensor Each predicted token id. """ with torch.no_grad(): wav_lens = wav_lens.to(self.device) encoder_out = self.encode_batch(wavs, wav_lens) predicted_tokens, _, _, _ = self.mods.decoder(encoder_out, wav_lens) predicted_words = self.tokenizer.batch_decode( predicted_tokens, skip_special_tokens=True ) if self.hparams.normalized_transcripts: predicted_words = [ self.tokenizer._normalize(text).split(" ") for text in predicted_words ] return predicted_words, predicted_tokens
[docs] def forward(self, wavs, wav_lens): """Runs full transcription - note: no gradients through decoding""" return self.transcribe_batch(wavs, wav_lens)
[docs] @dataclass class ASRStreamingContext: """Streaming metadata, initialized by :meth:`~StreamingASR.make_streaming_context` (see there for details on initialization of fields here). This object is intended to be mutate: the same object should be passed across calls as streaming progresses (namely when using the lower-level :meth:`~StreamingASR.encode_chunk`, etc. APIs). Holds some references to opaque streaming contexts, so the context is model-agnostic to an extent.""" config: DynChunkTrainConfig """Dynamic chunk training configuration used to initialize the streaming context. Cannot be modified on the fly.""" fea_extractor_context: Any """Opaque feature extractor streaming context.""" encoder_context: Any """Opaque encoder streaming context.""" decoder_context: Any """Opaque decoder streaming context.""" tokenizer_context: Optional[List[Any]] """Opaque streaming context for the tokenizer. Initially `None`. Initialized to a list of tokenizer contexts once batch size can be determined."""
[docs] class StreamingASR(Pretrained): """A ready-to-use, streaming-capable ASR model. Example ------- >>> from speechbrain.inference.ASR import StreamingASR >>> from speechbrain.utils.dynamic_chunk_training import DynChunkTrainConfig >>> tmpdir = getfixture("tmpdir") >>> asr_model = StreamingASR.from_hparams(source="speechbrain/asr-conformer-streaming-librispeech", savedir=tmpdir,) # doctest: +SKIP >>> asr_model.transcribe_file("speechbrain/asr-conformer-streaming-librispeech/test-en.wav", DynChunkTrainConfig(24, 8)) # doctest: +SKIP """ HPARAMS_NEEDED = [ "fea_streaming_extractor", "make_decoder_streaming_context", "decoding_function", "make_tokenizer_streaming_context", "tokenizer_decode_streaming", ] MODULES_NEEDED = ["enc", "proj_enc"] def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs): super().__init__(*args, **kwargs) self.filter_props = self.hparams.fea_streaming_extractor.properties def _get_audio_stream( self, streamer: torchaudio.io.StreamReader, frames_per_chunk: int ): """From a :class:`torchaudio.io.StreamReader`, identifies the audio stream and returns an iterable stream of chunks (after resampling and downmixing to mono). Arguments --------- streamer : torchaudio.io.StreamReader The stream object. Must hold exactly one source stream of an audio type. frames_per_chunk : int The number of frames per chunk. For a streaming model, this should be determined from the DynChunkTrain configuration. """ stream_infos = [ streamer.get_src_stream_info(i) for i in range(streamer.num_src_streams) ] audio_stream_infos = [ (i, stream_info) for i, stream_info in enumerate(stream_infos) if stream_info.media_type == "audio" ] if len(audio_stream_infos) != 1: raise ValueError( f"Expected stream to have only 1 stream (with any number of channels), got {len(audio_stream_infos)} (with streams: {stream_infos})" ) # find the index of the first (and only) audio stream audio_stream_index = audio_stream_infos[0][0] # output stream #0 streamer.add_basic_audio_stream( frames_per_chunk=frames_per_chunk, stream_index=audio_stream_index, sample_rate=self.audio_normalizer.sample_rate, format="fltp", # torch.float32 num_channels=1, ) for (chunk,) in streamer.stream(): chunk = chunk.squeeze(-1) # we deal with mono, remove that dim chunk = chunk.unsqueeze(0) # create a fake batch dim yield chunk
[docs] def transcribe_file_streaming( self, path, dynchunktrain_config: DynChunkTrainConfig, use_torchaudio_streaming: bool = True, **kwargs, ): """Transcribes the given audio file into a sequence of words, in a streaming fashion, meaning that text is being yield from this generator, in the form of strings to concatenate. Arguments --------- path : str URI/path to the audio to transcribe. When ``use_torchaudio_streaming`` is ``False``, uses SB fetching to allow fetching from HF or a local file. When ``True``, resolves the URI through ffmpeg, as documented in :class:`torchaudio.io.StreamReader`. dynchunktrain_config : DynChunkTrainConfig Streaming configuration. Sane values and how much time chunks actually represent is model-dependent. use_torchaudio_streaming : bool Whether the audio file can be loaded in a streaming fashion. If not, transcription is still performed through chunks of audio, but the entire audio file is fetched and loaded at once. This skips the usual fetching method and instead resolves the URI using torchaudio (via ffmpeg). Returns ------- generator of str An iterator yielding transcribed chunks (strings). There is a yield for every chunk, even if the transcribed string for that chunk is an empty string. """ chunk_size = self.get_chunk_size_frames(dynchunktrain_config) if use_torchaudio_streaming: streamer = torchaudio.io.StreamReader(path) chunks = self._get_audio_stream(streamer, chunk_size) else: waveform = self.load_audio(path, **kwargs) batch = waveform.unsqueeze(0) # create batch dim chunks = split_fixed_chunks(batch, chunk_size) rel_length = torch.tensor([1.0]) context = self.make_streaming_context(dynchunktrain_config) final_chunks = [ torch.zeros((1, chunk_size), device=self.device) ] * self.hparams.fea_streaming_extractor.get_recommended_final_chunk_count( chunk_size ) for chunk in itertools.chain(chunks, final_chunks): predicted_words = self.transcribe_chunk(context, chunk, rel_length) yield predicted_words[0]
[docs] def transcribe_file( self, path, dynchunktrain_config: DynChunkTrainConfig, use_torchaudio_streaming: bool = True, ): """Transcribes the given audio file into a sequence of words. Arguments --------- path : str URI/path to the audio to transcribe. When ``use_torchaudio_streaming`` is ``False``, uses SB fetching to allow fetching from HF or a local file. When ``True``, resolves the URI through ffmpeg, as documented in :class:`torchaudio.io.StreamReader`. dynchunktrain_config : DynChunkTrainConfig Streaming configuration. Sane values and how much time chunks actually represent is model-dependent. use_torchaudio_streaming : bool Whether the audio file can be loaded in a streaming fashion. If not, transcription is still performed through chunks of audio, but the entire audio file is fetched and loaded at once. This skips the usual fetching method and instead resolves the URI using torchaudio (via ffmpeg). Returns ------- str The audio file transcription produced by this ASR system. """ pred = "" for text_chunk in self.transcribe_file_streaming( path, dynchunktrain_config, use_torchaudio_streaming ): pred += text_chunk return pred
[docs] def make_streaming_context(self, dynchunktrain_config: DynChunkTrainConfig): """Create a blank streaming context to be passed around for chunk encoding/transcription. Arguments --------- dynchunktrain_config : DynChunkTrainConfig Streaming configuration. Sane values and how much time chunks actually represent is model-dependent.""" return ASRStreamingContext( config=dynchunktrain_config, fea_extractor_context=self.hparams.fea_streaming_extractor.make_streaming_context(), encoder_context=self.mods.enc.make_streaming_context( dynchunktrain_config ), decoder_context=self.hparams.make_decoder_streaming_context(), tokenizer_context=None, )
[docs] def get_chunk_size_frames( self, dynchunktrain_config: DynChunkTrainConfig ) -> int: """Returns the chunk size in actual audio samples, i.e. the exact expected length along the time dimension of an input chunk tensor (as passed to :meth:`~StreamingASR.encode_chunk` and similar low-level streaming functions). Arguments --------- dynchunktrain_config : DynChunkTrainConfig The streaming configuration to determine the chunk frame count of. """ return (self.filter_props.stride - 1) * dynchunktrain_config.chunk_size
[docs] @torch.no_grad() def encode_chunk( self, context: ASRStreamingContext, chunk: torch.Tensor, chunk_len: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None, ): """Encoding of a batch of audio chunks into a batch of encoded sequences. For full speech-to-text offline transcription, use `transcribe_batch` or `transcribe_file`. Must be called over a given context in the correct order of chunks over time. Arguments --------- context : ASRStreamingContext Mutable streaming context object, which must be specified and reused across calls when streaming. You can obtain an initial context by calling `asr.make_streaming_context(config)`. chunk : torch.Tensor The tensor for an audio chunk of shape `[batch size, time]`. The time dimension must strictly match `asr.get_chunk_size_frames(config)`. The waveform is expected to be in the model's expected format (i.e. the sampling rate must be correct). chunk_len : torch.Tensor, optional The relative chunk length tensor of shape `[batch size]`. This is to be used when the audio in one of the chunks of the batch is ending within this chunk. If unspecified, equivalent to `torch.ones((batch_size,))`. Returns ------- torch.Tensor Encoded output, of a model-dependent shape.""" if chunk_len is None: chunk_len = torch.ones((chunk.size(0),)) chunk = chunk.float() chunk, chunk_len = chunk.to(self.device), chunk_len.to(self.device) assert chunk.shape[-1] <= self.get_chunk_size_frames(context.config) x = self.hparams.fea_streaming_extractor( chunk, context=context.fea_extractor_context, lengths=chunk_len ) x = self.mods.enc.forward_streaming(x, context.encoder_context) x = self.mods.proj_enc(x) return x
[docs] @torch.no_grad() def decode_chunk( self, context: ASRStreamingContext, x: torch.Tensor ) -> tuple[list, list]: """Decodes the output of the encoder into tokens and the associated transcription. Must be called over a given context in the correct order of chunks over time. Arguments --------- context : ASRStreamingContext Mutable streaming context object, which should be the same object that was passed to `encode_chunk`. x : torch.Tensor The output of `encode_chunk` for a given chunk. Returns ------- list of str Decoded tokens of length `batch_size`. The decoded strings can be of 0-length. list of list of output token hypotheses List of length `batch_size`, each holding a list of tokens of any length `>=0`. """ tokens = self.hparams.decoding_function(x, context.decoder_context) # initialize token context for real now that we know the batch size if context.tokenizer_context is None: context.tokenizer_context = [ self.hparams.make_tokenizer_streaming_context() for _ in range(len(tokens)) ] words = [ self.hparams.tokenizer_decode_streaming( self.hparams.tokenizer, cur_tokens, context.tokenizer_context[i] ) for i, cur_tokens in enumerate(tokens) ] return words, tokens
[docs] def transcribe_chunk( self, context: ASRStreamingContext, chunk: torch.Tensor, chunk_len: Optional[torch.Tensor] = None, ): """Transcription of a batch of audio chunks into transcribed text. Must be called over a given context in the correct order of chunks over time. Arguments --------- context : ASRStreamingContext Mutable streaming context object, which must be specified and reused across calls when streaming. You can obtain an initial context by calling `asr.make_streaming_context(config)`. chunk : torch.Tensor The tensor for an audio chunk of shape `[batch size, time]`. The time dimension must strictly match `asr.get_chunk_size_frames(config)`. The waveform is expected to be in the model's expected format (i.e. the sampling rate must be correct). chunk_len : torch.Tensor, optional The relative chunk length tensor of shape `[batch size]`. This is to be used when the audio in one of the chunks of the batch is ending within this chunk. If unspecified, equivalent to `torch.ones((batch_size,))`. Returns ------- str Transcribed string for this chunk, might be of length zero. """ if chunk_len is None: chunk_len = torch.ones((chunk.size(0),)) chunk = chunk.float() chunk, chunk_len = chunk.to(self.device), chunk_len.to(self.device) x = self.encode_chunk(context, chunk, chunk_len) words, _tokens = self.decode_chunk(context, x) return words