Replaces the old stdin/stdout transcription-only server. Now handles the
full pipeline in Python:
- Launches parec or arecord for mic capture
- Runs Silero VAD (via silero-vad, already a faster-whisper dep — no sherpa-onnx needed)
- Pre-roll ring buffer (0.2s) prepended to each segment for context
- Transcribes with faster-whisper in a separate thread (GPU not blocking VAD)
- Emits JSON line events to stdout: ready, vad_start, vad_end, transcript, error
Event protocol is designed to map directly to WebSocket subscriptions later.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
--no-deps skipped av and other required packages. Fix by installing
faster-whisper normally first (satisfies all deps, pulls PyPI ctranslate2),
then immediately overriding ctranslate2 with the source-built version.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
setup-venv.sh: simple PyPI install path — just pip install faster-whisper.
Use this when the PyPI ctranslate2 wheel matches the system CUDA version.
setup-venv-local-build.sh:
- PYTHON_ENV env var for venv path override (consistent with tts-server)
- HF_TOKEN_FILE env var instead of hardcoded path
- HF_HUB_CACHE env var surfaced in output when set
- Remove stray chmod on faster-whisper-server.py (not part of this repo)
- Remove voice-experiment-specific "run with" message
- Add python3 to tool prerequisite check
- Arch Linux package suggestions extended to cover CUDA and python
- Document why each script exists and when to use which
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
