Update app.py

app.py

@@ -1128,6 +1128,14 @@ app = FastAPI()
 #     # Load function to initialize the state
 #     # demo.load(load_fn, inputs=None, outputs=[state])  # Initialize the state when the page is loaded
 
+@app.on_event("startup")
+async def startup_event():
+    logger.debug("Application startup initiated")
+    # Simulate heavy operation
+    # from transformers import pipeline
+    # global model
+    # model = pipeline("automatic-speech-recognition", model="openai/whisper-medium")
+    logger.debug("Application startup complete")
 
 # In[21]:
 @app.get("/", response_class=JSONResponse)