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Daniel Bevenius 0becabc8d6 stream.wasm : add language selection support (#3354)
* stream.wasm : add language selection support

This commit adds support for selecting the language in the stream.wasm
example. This is includes adding the model `base` which supports
multilingual transcription, and allowing the user to select a language
from a dropdown menu in the HTML interface.

The motivation for this is that it allows users to transcribe audio in
various languages.

Refs: https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/issues/3347

* squash! stream.wasm : add language selection support

Remove strdup() for language in stream.wasm and update butten text for
base (should not be "base.en" but just "base").
2025-08-02 07:03:04 +02:00
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stream.wasm

Real-time transcription in the browser using WebAssembly

Online demo: https://ggml.ai/whisper.cpp/stream.wasm/

Build instructions

# build using Emscripten (v3.1.2)
git clone https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp
cd whisper.cpp
mkdir build-em && cd build-em
emcmake cmake ..
make -j

The example can then be started by running a local HTTP server:

python3 examples/server.py

And then opening a browser to the following URL: http://localhost:8000/stream.wasm

To run the example in a different server, you need to copy the following files to the server's HTTP path:

# copy the produced page to your HTTP path
cp bin/stream.wasm/*       /path/to/html/
cp bin/libstream.js        /path/to/html/
cp bin/libstream.worker.js /path/to/html/

📝 Note: By default this example is built with WHISPER_WASM_SINGLE_FILE=ON which means that that a separate .wasm file will not be generated. Instead, the WASM module is embedded in the main JS file as a base64 encoded string. To generate a separate .wasm file, you need to disable this option by passing -DWHISPER_WASM_SINGLE_FILE=OFF:

emcmake cmake .. -DWHISPER_WASM_SINGLE_FILE=OFF

This will generate a libstream.wasm file in the build/bin directory.

📝 Note: As of Emscripten 3.1.58 (April 2024), separate worker.js files are no longer generated and the worker is embedded in the main JS file. So the worker file will not be geneated for versions later than 3.1.58.