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Switch whisper base->small for much better multilingual STT

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  1. live_processor.py +3 -3
live_processor.py CHANGED
@@ -193,13 +193,13 @@ class LiveSessionProcessor:
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  self._fusion = FuzzyFusionEngine()
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- # Load faster-whisper for STT (base multilingual — much better for non-English)
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  try:
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  from faster_whisper import WhisperModel
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  self._whisper_model = WhisperModel(
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- "base", device="cpu", compute_type="int8"
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  )
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- print("[LiveProcessor] faster-whisper base (multilingual) loaded")
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  except ImportError:
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  print("[LiveProcessor] faster-whisper not available, STT disabled")
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  self._whisper_model = None
 
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  self._fusion = FuzzyFusionEngine()
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+ # Load faster-whisper for STT (small multilingual — best accuracy for non-English on CPU)
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  try:
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  from faster_whisper import WhisperModel
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  self._whisper_model = WhisperModel(
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+ "small", device="cpu", compute_type="int8"
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  )
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+ print("[LiveProcessor] faster-whisper small (multilingual) loaded")
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  except ImportError:
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  print("[LiveProcessor] faster-whisper not available, STT disabled")
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  self._whisper_model = None