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- Bug: long audio (32+ min) batched inference hit NoneType 'sot_sequence' error - Root cause: faster-whisper tokenizer reset to None between VAD chunks for multilingual inference when preset_language is None - Fix: load model with language='zh' to set preset_language, avoiding tokenizer reset - Side effect: slightly faster (no language detection per file) Tested on F5 Tech Refresh meeting (32:46 audio, 80 segments, 8072 chars) Previous: failed with AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'sot_sequence' After: full transcript + summary generated successfully
Transcribe Server (M1 Mac)
Local Whisper transcription server with speaker diarization.
Stack
- Model: large-v3 (int8, CPU) — best quality for Cantonese
- Beam size: 1 (greedy, fast)
- Diarization: pyannote/speaker-diarization-3.1
- Framework: FastAPI + uvicorn
- Port: 8765 (local) → 18765 (via SSH reverse tunnel from VPS)
Why large-v3
- Cantonese WER improvement ~2-3% over medium / large-v3-turbo
- Better English code-mixing preservation
- More accurate speaker diarization
- Trade-off: ~4x slower, ~1GB more RAM
v1.3.0 (2026-07-24)
- Upgraded from large-v3-turbo → large-v3
- Added hallucination filter (repetition collapse + segment dropping)
- Replaced inline
logprob_thresholdwith Python-level regex filter - Faster: 1.15x realtime for Cantonese voice memo (vs ~1.5x for large-v3-turbo)
Usage
# local
python3 transcribe_server.py
# test
curl -X POST -F "file=@/path/audio.m4a" \
-F "language=cantonese" \
"http://127.0.0.1:8765/transcribe?diarize=1" \
-o output.json
Hallucination Filter (v1.3.0+)
- Detects raw text repetition (e.g. "对,有自己的监控,IP" × 20)
- Drops segments with high compression_ratio (>2.4)
- Drops segments with no_speech_prob > 0.6
- Replaces broken
logprob_threshold(not in whisperx TranscriptionOptions)
Auto-restart
Managed by launchd: ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.itdog.transcribe-server.plist
- Restarts on crash
- Loads model on first request (lazy)
Integration
VPS meeting-bot at https://meet.donton.cloud/upload calls transcribe_server via SSH reverse tunnel:
- VPS port 18765 → Mac port 8765
- See
/opt/meeting-bot/backend/main.pyfor backend
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