Merge pull request #180 from thiswillbeyourgithub/parallel-api-calls

parallel api calls

Author: absadiki

requirements.txt

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ streamlit-aggrid~=0.3.4
 # openai API:
 openai==1.60.1
 ffmpeg-python>=0.2.0
+joblib>=1.5.2
 
 # whisper timestamped:
 whisper-timestamped @ git+https://github.com/linto-ai/whisper-timestamped

src/subsai/models/whisper_api_model.py

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 from openai import OpenAI
 from pysubs2 import SSAFile
 from pydub import AudioSegment
+from joblib import Parallel, delayed
 
 TMPDIR = tempfile.gettempdir()
 OPENAI_API_SIZE_LIMIT_MB = 24
@@ -81,8 +82,14 @@ class WhisperAPIModel(AbstractModel):
                 'description': "The base URL for the API. Useful if you're already self hosting whisper for example.",
                 'options': None,
                 'default': "https://api.openai.com/v1/"
+            },
+            "n_jobs": {
+                "type": int,
+                "description": "Number of calls to do in parallel (1 to not use parallel call)",
+                "options": None,
+                "default": 1,
             }
-        }
+    }
 
     def __init__(self, model_config):
         # config
@@ -94,10 +101,11 @@ def __init__(self, model_config):
         self.base_url = _load_config('base_url', model_config, self.config_schema)
         if not self.base_url.endswith("/"):
             self.base_url += "/"
+        self.n_jobs = _load_config("n_jobs", model_config, self.config_schema)
 
         self.client = OpenAI(api_key=self.api_key, base_url=self.base_url)
 
-    def chunk_audio(self,audio_file_path) -> list:
+    def chunk_audio(self, audio_file_path) -> list:
         # Load the audio file
         audio = AudioSegment.from_mp3(audio_file_path)
 
@@ -114,48 +122,87 @@ def chunk_audio(self,audio_file_path) -> list:
             # Calculate the end of the current chunk
             end_ms = current_ms + chunk_duration_ms
             # Create a chunk from the current position to the end position
-            chunk = audio[current_ms:int(end_ms)]
+            chunk = audio[current_ms : int(end_ms)]
             # Add the chunk to the list of chunks and include offset
-            chunks.append((chunk,current_ms))
+            chunks.append((chunk, current_ms))
             # Update the current position
             current_ms = end_ms
 
         return chunks
-        
 
-    def transcribe(self, media_file) -> str:
+    def _transcribe_chunk(self, chunk_data):
+        """
+        Transcribe a single audio chunk using OpenAI Whisper API.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        chunk_data : tuple
+            Tuple containing (chunk_index, chunk, offset)
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        tuple
+            Tuple containing (chunk_index, transcription_result, offset)
+        """
+        i, chunk, offset = chunk_data
+        chunk_path = os.path.join(TMPDIR, f"chunk_{i}.mp3")
+
+        try:
+            print("Transcribing audio chunk {}".format(i))
+            chunk.export(chunk_path, format="mp3")
+
+            with open(chunk_path, "rb") as audio_file:
+                # Use OpenAI Whisper API
+                result = self.client.audio.transcriptions.create(
+                    model=self.model_type,
+                    language=self.language,
+                    prompt=self.prompt,
+                    temperature=self.temperature,
+                    file=audio_file,
+                    response_format="srt",
+                )
+
+            # Clean up the temporary chunk file
+            os.remove(chunk_path)
+
+            return (i, result, offset)
+
+        except Exception as e:
+            # Clean up the temporary chunk file in case of error
+            if os.path.exists(chunk_path):
+                os.remove(chunk_path)
+            raise e
+
+    def transcribe(self, media_file: str) -> str:
 
         audio_file_path = convert_video_to_audio_ffmpeg(media_file)
 
         chunks = self.chunk_audio(audio_file_path)
 
-        results = ''
-
-        for i, (chunk,offset) in enumerate(chunks):
-            chunk_path = os.path.join(TMPDIR,f'chunk_{i}.mp3')
-            print('Transcribing audio chunk {}/{}'.format(i,len(chunks)))
-            chunk.export(chunk_path, format='mp3')
-            audio_file = open(chunk_path, "rb")
-
-            # Use OpenAI Whisper API
-            result = self.client.audio.transcriptions.create(
-                model=self.model_type,
-                language=self.language,
-                prompt=self.prompt,
-                temperature=self.temperature,
-                file=audio_file,
-                response_format="srt"
-            )
+        print(f"Processing {len(chunks)} audio chunks with {self.n_jobs} parallel jobs")
 
-            with open(chunk_path+'.srt','w') as f:
-                f.write(result)
+        # Prepare chunk data for parallel processing
+        chunk_data = [(i, chunk, offset) for i, (chunk, offset) in enumerate(chunks)]
 
-            # shift subtitles by offset
-            result = SSAFile.from_string(result)
+        # Use parallel processing if n_jobs > 1, otherwise process sequentially
+        if self.n_jobs > 1:
+            # Use threading backend since API calls are I/O-bound
+            parallel_results = Parallel(n_jobs=self.n_jobs, backend="threading")(
+                delayed(self._transcribe_chunk)(data) for data in chunk_data
+            )
+        else:
+            # Sequential processing for n_jobs=1
+            parallel_results = [self._transcribe_chunk(data) for data in chunk_data]
+
+        # Sort results by chunk index to maintain order
+        parallel_results.sort(key=lambda x: x[0])
+
+        # Process results and apply time offsets
+        results = ""
+        for i, result_text, offset in parallel_results:
+            # Shift subtitles by offset
+            result = SSAFile.from_string(result_text)
             result.shift(ms=offset)
-            results += result.to_string('srt')
-
-        results = ''.join(results)
+            results += result.to_string("srt")
 
         return SSAFile.from_string(results)
-