v0.3.0

Documentation

• Improve .env readability for an easier API configuration #52
• Add README instructions for profiling container #72

API

• Add authentication when the API is not in debug mode #56
• Fix the audio file endpoint inputs #59
• All submitted files are converted into .wav 16kHz for consistency #60
• Reworked and more coherent Request/Response models for the API endpoints #60
• Streamline the post-process functions (with or without alignment/diarization) #63
• Simplify timestamps conversion in outputs #63
• Fix blocking non-async functions #67
• Huge API rework for handling concurrent requests better #71
• Fix Exception/Error returns through the API -> raised errors should be more transparent for user #72
• VAD use now onnx and faster-whisper implementation #72

AI models

• Add alignment (from whisperX) as a new possible step #51
• Fix alignment for fr, de, es, and it models #59
• Add dual_channel transcription process for stereo audio file #60
• Add the choice to use diarization or not #63
• Implement Batch request process for transcription #72

Deploy

• Docker is aligned with the local setup now #55
• Improve Dockerfile and commands to use cache for models #55

Contributors:
@aleksandr-smechov @chainyo