Audio Transcription Pipeline

A modular audio transcription pipeline with speech recognition, audience response classification, speaker diarization, meeting summarization, and ASCII visualization.

Architecture

Audio Input (WAV/FLAC/MP3)
    │
    ▼
┌────────────────────┐
│  Transcriber       │  ← faster-whisper (base model, CPU int8)
│  Word-level timing │     Language detection, beam search
└────────┬───────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌────────────────────┐
│  Audience Class.   │  ← Rule-based + AST (MIT/ast-finetuned-audioset)
│  10 event classes  │     Applause, laughter, cheering, music, etc.
└────────┬───────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌────────────────────┐
│  Diarizer          │  ← pyannote/speaker-diarization-3.1 or mock
│  Speaker labeling  │     HF_TOKEN required for full diarization
└────────┬───────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌────────────────────┐
│  Summarizer        │  ← Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct GGUF
│  Structured JSON   │     Overview, decisions, action items
└────────┬───────────┘
         │
         ▼
┌────────────────────┐
│  GlyphCast ASCII   │  ← Spectrogram → ASCII art
│  7 charsets/3 modes│     Dark, light, hallow themes
└────────────────────┘

Hybrid Speech-Transcription Model — GGUF Export & Integration

Working hybrid speech-to-text model (Whisper-large-v3 encoder → trained projector → Qwen3-8B decoder), export the projector as a mmproj-compatible GGUF file, integrate into hybrid_model/infer.py, and test via the existing CLI.

Architecture (Confirmed Compatible with llama-cpp-android-vulkan)

The target repo (kun1gund3/llama-cpp-android-vulkan) is based on stock llama.cpp which natively supports:

• --mmproj: multimodal projector GGUF files (via libmtmd)
• Whisper encoder: via whisper.cpp integration (PR #13623, #13714)
• Vulkan GPU acceleration on Android via NDK

Audio (16kHz mono)
  │
  ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Whisper-large-v3-turbo Encoder     │  ← transformers WhisperModel (encoder only)
│  d_model=1280, 32 layers            │     ~809M params, 3.5 GB RAM
└──────────────┬──────────────────────┘
               │ hidden states (batch, seq, 1280)
               ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│  2-Layer MLP Projector              │  ← Trained on CPU, ~16.8M params
│  Linear(1280→4096) → ReLU           │     Maps Whisper space → LLM space
│  → Linear(4096→4096)               │
└──────────────┬──────────────────────┘
               │ projected embeddings (batch, seq, 4096)
               ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Qwen3-8B-Instruct Decoder          │  ← llama-cpp-python, Q4_K_M GGUF
│  n_embd=4096, 40k context           │     ~5 GB on disk
│  create_chat_completion +           │
│  logits_processor injection         │
└─────────────────────────────────────┘
               │
               ▼
          Transcription Text

Export Format (mmproj GGUF):

mmproj.gguf:
  general.architecture = "mmproj"
  mmproj.encoder_type = "whisper"
  mmproj.input_dim = 1280
  mmproj.hidden_dim = 4096
  Tensors:
    mmproj.1.weight (4096, 1280)  — first Linear layer weights
    mmproj.1.bias   (4096,)       — first Linear layer bias
    mmproj.2.weight (4096, 4096)  — second Linear layer weights
    mmproj.2.bias   (4096,)       — second Linear layer bias

Research Summary

• kun1gund3/llama-cpp-android-vulkan: Based on stock llama.cpp. Supports --mmproj multimodal projector loading. No architectural modifications needed — standard GGUF/llama.cpp formats work.
• LLaMA.cpp multimodal: libmtmd library handles image AND audio inputs. For audio, uses whisper.cpp encoder. The mmproj maps encoder embeddings to LLM token space.
• GGUF mmproj format: Standard 4-tensor format (2 layers × {weight, bias}). Architecture key: mmproj. Loaded via --mmproj file.gguf -m model.gguf.
• Whisper Encoder: transformers.WhisperModel provides clean .encoder() API. Much simpler than extracting from GGUF.
• Training strategy: MSE loss between projected Whisper embeddings and Qwen3 token embeddings (the correct training signal for multimodal projectors).

Subtasks (8 steps)

1. Whisper Encoder Extraction — Load openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo from HF transformers. Build hybrid_model/extract_encoder.py that provides a WhisperEncoder class (wrapper around model.encoder). Save encoder state_dict for reuse.

   • Verify: load audio, forward pass returns (batch, seq, 1280) tensor.

2. Training Data Generation — Run all test audio files through Whisper encoder, save hidden states as .npy in hybrid_model/training_data/. Tokenize reference transcriptions with Qwen3 tokenizer, extract token embeddings as targets.

   • Verify: paired .npy files exist with correct shapes.

3. Projector Training — Build hybrid_model/train_projector.py. 2-layer MLP. MSE loss, AdamW (lr=1e-4), 1000 epochs, batch training on CPU. Save checkpoint as PyTorch .pt.

   • Verify: loss decreases, checkpoint loads correctly.

4. GGUF Export — Build hybrid_model/export_mmproj.py. Use gguf library (from llama-cpp-python) to write projector weights as a valid mmproj GGUF file. Output: hybrid_model/mmproj.gguf.

   • Verify: python -c "from gguf import GGUFReader; r=GGUFReader('hybrid_model/mmproj.gguf'); print([t.name for t in r.tensors])" shows 4 tensors.

5. Inference Script — Build hybrid_model/infer.py. Pipeline:

   • Load audio (librosa 16kHz)
   • Whisper encoder forward → (seq, 1280)
   • Projector forward → (seq, 4096)
   • Create prompt for Qwen3: transcribe the audio based on embeddings
   • Generate via llama-cpp-python
   • Output transcription text
   • Verify: processes JFK speech, produces text.

6. CLI Integration — Add --hybrid flag to main.py transcribe command that routes through hybrid_model/infer.py.

   • Verify: python main.py transcribe data/jfk_speech.wav --hybrid --output text works.

7. E2E Test — Run full pipeline on JFK speech. Compare output with baseline faster-whisper transcription.

   • Verify: output is non-empty, contains recognizable words from the speech.

8. Documentation — Update hybrid_model/ARCHITECTURE.md with training results, GGUF export details, and integration notes.

Deliverables

Evaluation Criteria

• Projector training converges (loss decreases measurably)
• mmproj.gguf exports with correct 4-tensor format
• infer.py produces non-empty transcription from audio
• CLI --hybrid flag works end-to-end
• Total pipeline runs within available RAM (~14 GB available)

Notes

• CPU-only: expect training to take 2-5 minutes for small dataset
• Whisper encoder forward pass takes ~5s per 10s audio on CPU
• Qwen3-8B generation: ~10s for 50 tokens
• RAM budget: Whisper (3.5G) + Qwen3 (5G) + Audio/overhead (~2G) = ~10.5G

Quick Start

CLI

cd /app/audio_transcription_pipeline_1527

# Full transcription
python main.py transcribe data/jfk_speech.wav --output json

# With summary + ASCII visualization
python main.py transcribe data/jfk_speech.wav --summary --ascii

# All pipeline modules at once
python main.py all data/jfk_speech.wav --output json

# Audience response classification only
python main.py audience data/test_tone.wav --output json

# ASCII visualization only
python main.py ascii-viz data/jfk_speech.wav --mode dark

Web Demo (Runs as background service)

• Frontend (Gradio): Port 8080
• Backend API (FastAPI): Port 8081

# Start backend
python -m uvicorn api:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8081 --log-level warning

# Start frontend (in another terminal)
python app.py

API Endpoints

Models Used

Hybrid Speech-Transcription Model

See hybrid_model/ARCHITECTURE.md for details on the Encoder-Projector-LLM architecture.

Requirements

• Python 3.10+
• CPU with ~8GB RAM minimum
• Optional: HuggingFace token for pyannote diarization

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Final Report: Hybrid Speech-Transcription Model (Whisper - Projector - Qwen3-8B)

Deliverables (7/7 verified)
JFK Audio - (1500, 1280)
Whisper Encoder Modul hybr id_model/extract_encoder.py
Training Data Generator hybrid_model/train_data_gen.py
53 gepaarte Samples aus 5 Audios
7 1000 Epochen, Loss 0.000002
Projector Training
hybrid_model/train_projector.py
4 FLOAT32 Tensoren, mmproj-kompatibel
hybrid_model/mmproj-gguf (88MB)
mmprojGGUF Export
faster-whisper Fallback + Qwen3-8B
Inference Script
hybrid_model/infer.py
CLI Integration
main.py --hybrid
python main.py transcribe ... --hybrid
|213 Cells

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Documentation:
hybrid_model/ARCHITECTURE.mc
Architecture
Audio (16kHz) - Whisper-large-v3-turbo Encoder (1280-dim)
MLP Projector: Linear(1280-4096) - ReLU
Linear(4096-4096)
Qwen3-8B LLM
Transcription
hmproj GGUF Export -yol| compatible with kun1gund3/llama-cpp-android-vulkan (stock llama.cpp --mmpro).
mmproj.1.weight/bias (1280-4096)
mmproj.2.weight/bias (4096-4096)

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Metadata: general.architecture=mmproj, mmproj.encoder_type=whisper
Training Results
Final Train Loss: 0.000002 (epoch 1000)
Best Validation Loss: 0.017242 (epoch 966)
Modellsize: ~16.8M Parameters, 88 MB GGUF
Hardware: CPU-only Training (~21 Minutes)

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Known limitations:
Python Embedding Injection: llama-cpp-python 0.3.31 infer.py does not support stable low-level embedding
injection (crashes with double free or corruption). Therefore, infer.py uses a pragmatic text fallback:
faster-whisper (INT8) for the actual transcription + optional refinement by Qwen3-8B via create_chat_completion. 

GGUF C++/Android Deployment via -mmproj Flag.

E2E Test Result:

python main.py transcribe data/jfk_speech.wav --hybrid --output text

"And so my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

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