Program.cs

// Licensed under the MIT license: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Whisper.net;
using Whisper.net.Ggml;
using Whisper.net.Logger;

public class Program
{
    // This examples shows how to use Whisper.net to create a transcription from an audio file with 16Khz sample rate, using CoreML
    public static async Task Main(string[] args)
    {
        // We declare for variables which we will use later, ggmlType, modelFileName, wavFileName and coreMlModelcName
        var ggmlType = GgmlType.Base;
        var modelFileName = "ggml-base.bin";
        var wavFileName = "kennedy.wav";
        var coreMlModelcName = "ggml-base-encoder.mlmodelc";

        // This section detects whether the "ggml-base.bin" file exists in our project disk. If it doesn't, it downloads it from the internet
        if (!File.Exists(modelFileName))
        {
            await DownloadModel(modelFileName, ggmlType);
        }

        // This sections detects whether the modelc directory (used by CoreML) is in out project disk. If it doesn't, it downloads it and extract it to the current folder.
        if (!Directory.Exists(coreMlModelcName))
        {
            // Note: The modelc directory needs to be extracted at the same level as the "ggml-base.bin" file (and the current executable).
            await WhisperGgmlDownloader.GetEncoderCoreMLModelAsync(ggmlType)
                                       .ExtractToPath(".");
        }

        // Optional logging from the native library
        
        using var whisperLogger = LogProvider.AddLogger((level, message) =>
        {
            Console.Write($"{level}: {message}");
        });

        // This section creates the whisperFactory object which is used to create the processor object.
        using var whisperFactory = WhisperFactory.FromPath(modelFileName);

        // This section creates the processor object which is used to process the audio file, it uses language `auto` to detect the language of the audio file.
        using var processor = whisperFactory.CreateBuilder()
            .WithLanguage("auto")
            .Build();

        using var fileStream = File.OpenRead(wavFileName);

        // This section processes the audio file and prints the results (start time, end time and text) to the console.
        await foreach (var result in processor.ProcessAsync(fileStream))
        {
            Console.WriteLine($"{result.Start}->{result.End}: {result.Text}");
        }
    }

    private static async Task DownloadModel(string fileName, GgmlType ggmlType)
    {
        Console.WriteLine($"Downloading Model {fileName}");
        using var modelStream = await WhisperGgmlDownloader.GetGgmlModelAsync(ggmlType);
        using var fileWriter = File.OpenWrite(fileName);
        await modelStream.CopyToAsync(fileWriter);
    }
}