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Whisper Transcription

Installation

Terminal window
make install-whisper    # adds faster-whisper (~1.5GB model on first run)

Usage

Terminal window
streetchat transcribe --session latest

Default model: base.en · CPU mode · int8 compute. Tunable via .env.

Output

Per-session transcript JSON with:

  • per-segment timestamps
  • speaker placeholder (diarization Phase 2)
  • per-segment confidence
  • language detection
  • duration · engine · model · generated_at

Paste fallback

If faster-whisper is not installed (or transcription was done elsewhere) · use ingest-transcript mode. Pipeline does not require Whisper to function.

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