Export subtitle format of vtt

[madroidmaq]

whisper supports outputting multiple file formats, currently txt,vtt,srt,tsv,json,all, does the project have the ability to output multiple formats? Here is the whisper command line help, you can specify the output format by --output_format.

whisper --help
usage: whisper [-h] [--model {tiny.en,tiny,base.en,base,small.en,small,medium.en,medium,large-v1,large-v2,large}]
               [--model_dir MODEL_DIR] [--device DEVICE] [--output_dir OUTPUT_DIR]
               [--output_format {txt,vtt,srt,tsv,json,all}] [--verbose VERBOSE] [--task {transcribe,translate}]
               [--language {af,am,ar,as,az,ba,be,bg,bn,bo,br,bs,ca,cs,cy,da,de,el,en,es,et,eu,fa,fi,fo,fr,gl,gu,ha,haw,he,hi,hr,ht,hu,hy,id,is,it,ja,jw,ka,kk,km,kn,ko,la,lb,ln,lo,lt,lv,mg,mi,mk,ml,mn,mr,ms,mt,my,ne,nl,nn,no,oc,pa,pl,ps,pt,ro,ru,sa,sd,si,sk,sl,sn,so,sq,sr,su,sv,sw,ta,te,tg,th,tk,tl,tr,tt,uk,ur,uz,vi,yi,yo,zh,Afrikaans,Albanian,Amharic,Arabic,Armenian,Assamese,Azerbaijani,Bashkir,Basque,Belarusian,Bengali,Bosnian,Breton,Bulgarian,Burmese,Castilian,Catalan,Chinese,Croatian,Czech,Danish,Dutch,English,Estonian,Faroese,Finnish,Flemish,French,Galician,Georgian,German,Greek,Gujarati,Haitian,Haitian Creole,Hausa,Hawaiian,Hebrew,Hindi,Hungarian,Icelandic,Indonesian,Italian,Japanese,Javanese,Kannada,Kazakh,Khmer,Korean,Lao,Latin,Latvian,Letzeburgesch,Lingala,Lithuanian,Luxembourgish,Macedonian,Malagasy,Malay,Malayalam,Maltese,Maori,Marathi,Moldavian,Moldovan,Mongolian,Myanmar,Nepali,Norwegian,Nynorsk,Occitan,Panjabi,Pashto,Persian,Polish,Portuguese,Punjabi,Pushto,Romanian,Russian,Sanskrit,Serbian,Shona,Sindhi,Sinhala,Sinhalese,Slovak,Slovenian,Somali,Spanish,Sundanese,Swahili,Swedish,Tagalog,Tajik,Tamil,Tatar,Telugu,Thai,Tibetan,Turkish,Turkmen,Ukrainian,Urdu,Uzbek,Valencian,Vietnamese,Welsh,Yiddish,Yoruba}]
               [--temperature TEMPERATURE] [--best_of BEST_OF] [--beam_size BEAM_SIZE] [--patience PATIENCE]
               [--length_penalty LENGTH_PENALTY] [--suppress_tokens SUPPRESS_TOKENS] [--initial_prompt INITIAL_PROMPT]
               [--condition_on_previous_text CONDITION_ON_PREVIOUS_TEXT] [--fp16 FP16]
               [--temperature_increment_on_fallback TEMPERATURE_INCREMENT_ON_FALLBACK]
               [--compression_ratio_threshold COMPRESSION_RATIO_THRESHOLD] [--logprob_threshold LOGPROB_THRESHOLD]
               [--no_speech_threshold NO_SPEECH_THRESHOLD] [--word_timestamps WORD_TIMESTAMPS]
               [--prepend_punctuations PREPEND_PUNCTUATIONS] [--append_punctuations APPEND_PUNCTUATIONS]
               [--highlight_words HIGHLIGHT_WORDS] [--max_line_width MAX_LINE_WIDTH] [--max_line_count MAX_LINE_COUNT]
               [--threads THREADS]
               audio [audio ...]

[sanchit-gandhi]

Hey @madroidmaq! Distil-Whisper runs entirely in the 🤗 Transformers library, where we assume a minimal set-up of audio input -> text output. In this regard, the text output is a pure Python string containing the inferred transcription. To convert this to another file format, we could apply some additional post-processing steps. We could certainly add some code examples showing how to do this. It shouldn't be too hard to port the OpenAI Whisper post-processing to standalone Python examples: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/b38a1f20f4b23f3f3099af2c3e0ca95627276ddf/whisper/utils.py#L188