# whisper.cpp http server

Simple http server. WAV Files are passed to the inference model via http requests.

https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp/assets/1991296/e983ee53-8741-4eb5-9048-afe5e4594b8f

## Usage

```
./server -h

usage: ./bin/server [options]

options:
  -h,        --help              [default] show this help message and exit
  -t N,      --threads N         [4      ] number of threads to use during computation
  -p N,      --processors N      [1      ] number of processors to use during computation
  -ot N,     --offset-t N        [0      ] time offset in milliseconds
  -on N,     --offset-n N        [0      ] segment index offset
  -d  N,     --duration N        [0      ] duration of audio to process in milliseconds
  -mc N,     --max-context N     [-1     ] maximum number of text context tokens to store
  -ml N,     --max-len N         [0      ] maximum segment length in characters
  -sow,      --split-on-word     [false  ] split on word rather than on token
  -bo N,     --best-of N         [2      ] number of best candidates to keep
  -bs N,     --beam-size N       [-1     ] beam size for beam search
  -wt N,     --word-thold N      [0.01   ] word timestamp probability threshold
  -et N,     --entropy-thold N   [2.40   ] entropy threshold for decoder fail
  -lpt N,    --logprob-thold N   [-1.00  ] log probability threshold for decoder fail
  -debug,    --debug-mode        [false  ] enable debug mode (eg. dump log_mel)
  -tr,       --translate         [false  ] translate from source language to english
  -di,       --diarize           [false  ] stereo audio diarization
  -tdrz,     --tinydiarize       [false  ] enable tinydiarize (requires a tdrz model)
  -nf,       --no-fallback       [false  ] do not use temperature fallback while decoding
  -ps,       --print-special     [false  ] print special tokens
  -pc,       --print-colors      [false  ] print colors
  -pp,       --print-progress    [false  ] print progress
  -nt,       --no-timestamps     [false  ] do not print timestamps
  -l LANG,   --language LANG     [en     ] spoken language ('auto' for auto-detect)
  -dl,       --detect-language   [false  ] exit after automatically detecting language
             --prompt PROMPT     [       ] initial prompt
  -m FNAME,  --model FNAME       [models/ggml-base.en.bin] model path
  -oved D,   --ov-e-device DNAME [CPU    ] the OpenVINO device used for encode inference
  --host HOST,                   [127.0.0.1] Hostname/ip-adress for the server
  --port PORT,                   [8080   ] Port number for the server
```

## request examples

**/inference**
```
curl 127.0.0.1:8080/inference \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
-F file="@<file-path>" \
-F temperature="0.2" \
-F response-format="json"
```

**/load**
```
curl 127.0.0.1:8080/load \
-H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data" \
-F model="<path-to-model-file>"
```
