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* Initial proof of concept Vim plugin
At present, this is likely only slightly better than feature parity with
the existing whisper.nvim
Known issues:
Trailing whitespace
Up to an existing length(5 seconds) of speech may be processed when
listening is enabled
CPU cycles are spent processing speech even when not listening.
Fixing these issues is likely dependent upon future efforts to create a
dedicated library instead of wrapping examples/stream
* Support $WHISPER_CPP_HOME environment variable
A minor misunderstanding of the whisper.nvim implementation resulted in
a plugin that was functional, but not a drop in replacement as it should
be now.
* Initial progress on LSP implementation
Libcall is nonviable because the library is immediately freed after a
call is made. Further investigation has shown Language Server Protocol as
a promising alternative that both simplifies the required logic on the
vimscript side and increases the ease with which plugins for other
editors could be made in the future. This is a very large undertaking
and my progress has slowed substantially.
Work is far from being in a usable state, but I wish to keep track of
major refactors for organizational purposes.
* Rewrite audio windowing of guided transcription
One of the defining goals of this venture is allowing consecutive
commands to be rattled off without the existing deadzones of the current
implementation.
* Add unguided_transcription. Cleanup.
The unguided transcription implantation heavily borrows from existing
example implementations and the guided_transcription logic.
A high level pass was done to check that method arguments are accurate
to what inputs are actually required.
A first attempt at cancellation support was added for record keeping,
but will be deleted in a future commit.
* Fix compilation.
Resolves a large number of compilation errors.
No testing has been done yet for execution errors.
Update Makefile and .gitignore
* Functional unguided_transcription
* Functional guided_transcription
Fix commandset_list being passed by value
Properly register the first token of a multitoken command
* Minor changes before time fix
I've apparently made an awfully major mistake in thinking that unix time
was in milliseconds and will be changing all timekeeping code to use
standardized methods.
In preparation for this is a number of minor bugfixes.
Output is manually flushed.
An echo method has been added.
registerCommandset now wraps the returned index
* Swap timekeeping to use std::chrono
* Add work in progress lsp backed whisper.vim plugin
Current progress blockers are
Adding modality awareness to the command processing
(specifically, motion prompting)
Improving the VAD to be a little more responsive
(testing start of activity)
* Reworked vim plugin command loop
* Fix change inside
Multiple bug fixes that, crucially, bring the plugin to the point where a
demonstration video is possible
Add better echo messaging so whisper_log isn't required
Add loading complete message as indicator when listening has started
Insert/append are actually included in command sets
Some more heavy handed corrections to prevent a double exit when leaving
insert mode
As a somewhat hacky fix, the very first space is removed when inserting.
This cleans up most use cases, but leaves me unsatisfied with the few
cases it would be desired.
* Forcibly set commandset_index to 0 after subinsert
Also remove unnecessary ! to use builtin vim command
* Fix upper
A minor scope mistake was causing upper'd inputs to be eaten.
This was fixed and echoing was slightly improved for clarity.
* Fix formatting
Corrects indentation to 4 spaces as project standard
Slightly better error support for malformed json input
* Remove obsolete vim plugin
* Add json.hpp library
The same library that is used for the llama.cpp server
* Minor cleanups
add lsp to the make clean directive.
remove a redundant params definition.
reorder whisper.vim logging for subtranscriptions
Corrections to unlets (variables of argument scope appear immutable)
* Fix indentation. Fallback for subTranscription
Indentation has been changed to 4 spaces.
Unit testing has been set up, I'm opting not to include it in the
repository for now.
It however, has revealed a bug in the state logic where a
subtranscription can be initiated without having a saved command
When this occurs, append is added as a fallback
* Move audio polling logic to a subfunction
While work on the improved vad will continue, It's grown to be a little
out of scope. Instead, a future commit will perform multiple detection
passes at substretches of audio when a backlog of audio exists.
To facilitate this, and prevent code duplication, the vad code has been
moved into a subfunction shared by both the unguided and guided
transcription functions.
* Test for voice over subchunks if backlog > 1s
As the existing VAD implementation only checks for a falling edge at the
end of an audio chunk. It fails to detect voice in cases where the
recorded voice is only at the beginning of the audio.
To ameliorate this, when the timestamp would cause analysis of audio
over a second in length, it is split into 1 second length subchunks
which are individually tested.
Results are promising, but there seems to be a remaining bug with
unguided transcription likely related to saving context
* Limit the maximum length of audio input.
This existing VAD implementation only detects falling edges, which
means any gap in the users speaking is processed for transcription.
This simply establishes a constant maximum length depending on the type
of transcription. Uguided gets a generous 10 seconds and guided, 2.
While quick testing showed that commands are generally around a half a
second to a second, limiting commands to an even second resulted in
extreme degradation of quality. (Seemingly always the same output for a
given commandset)
* Unguided timestamp tracking, cleanup
Unguided transcriptions where not setup to allow for passing of
timestamp data forward, but have been corrected.
No_context is now always set to false. While conceptually desirable for
the quality of guided transcription, It was seemingly responsible for
prior command inputs ghosting in unguided transcription.
Save and Run are now tracked by command number instead of command text.
While command_text was provided for convenience, I wish to keep command
index authoritative. This gives greater consistency and potentially
allows for end users to rename or even translate the spoken versions of
these commands
* By default, maintain mode.
Previously, mode was reset to 0 unless otherwise set.
In addition to causing some edge cases, this was didn't mesh well with
the existing approach to visual mode.
With this change, initial tests indicate visual mode is functional.
* Add undo breaks before subtranscriptions
Subtranscriptions use undo as a hack to allow for partial responses to
be displayed. However, scripts don't cause an undo break mid execution
unless specifically instructed to. This meant that multiple
unguided transcriptions from a single session would cause a latter to
undo a former.
This is now fixed and undo should be reasonably usable as a command.
* Append instead of insert for new undo sequence
When entering and leavening insert mode with `i`, the cursor shifts one
column to the left. This is remedied by using append instead of insert
for setting these breaks in the undo sequence
`-` was also added to the pronunciation dictionary to be pronounced as
minus as it was causing a particularly high failure rate.
* Move undo sequence breaks to command execution
Previously, undo sequence breaks were triggered when there was a command
that caused a move to insert mode. This caused commands that changed
state (like delete or paste) to be bundled together with into the last
command that caused text to be entered.
* Fix repeat. Add space, carrot, dollar commands
Repeat (.) wasn't being tracked properly just like undo and is being
manually tracked now.
While efforts have been made to properly handle spaces, it was
particularly finicky to add a single space when one is needed. A
special 'space' command has been added to insert a single space and move
the cursor after it.
Carrot and Dollar commands have been added for start of line and end of
line respectively. These are both simple to implement, and just a
matter of defining a pronunciation.
* Return error on duplicate in commandset
Not every command in the commandset tokenizes to a single token.
Because of this, it's possible for that two commands could resolve to
the same single token after subsequent tokens are discarded.
This commit adds a simple check for duplicates when a commandset is
registered and returns an error if so.
Additional code will be required later on the vim side to actually
process this error.
* Add support for user-defined commands
This adds a user definable dictionary from spoken keys to strings or
funcrefs. All keys are added to the commandlist and when spoken, trigger
the corresponding function.
Like "save" and "run", these user commands are only available when the
command buffer is empty.
* Add readme, update cmake
* Add area commandset. Refactor spoken_dict
Area commands (inside word, around sentence...) have been given a
commandset as considered earlier.
Verbose definitions for spoken_dict entries now use dicts instead of
lists. This shortens the definition for most keys that require it and
scales better with the addition of further commandsets
* Add mark, jump. Fix change under visual.
Mark (m) and jump (') have been added.
When a visual selection was executed upon a command that initiated a
subtranscription (change) the area of the visual selection is not
properly tracked which causes the attempt to stream in partial response
to fail. This is solved by disabling partial transcriptions from being
streamed when a subtranscription is started while in visual mode.
* Accommodate ignorecase. Fix change.
From testing on older different versions of vim, the test for
distinguishing an 'R' replace all from an 'r' replace could fail if
ignorecase was set. The comparison has been changed to explicitly
require case matching
Change detection has been moved to the execution section as it was missing the
change+motion case.
* Support registers. Fix README typo
There's no logic to prevent doubled register entry, but the functional
result is equivalent to if the same key order was typed into vim.
A minor typo in the readme. I've mismemorized the mnemonic for 't' as 'to'
instead of till., but 'to' can't be used as it's a homophone with '2'.
While there was no mistake in the actual logic, it was misleading to use
'to' in the readme.
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Language Server
This example consists of a simple language server to expose both unguided and guided (command) transcriptions by sending json messages over stdout/stdin as well as a rather robust vim plugin that makes use of the language server.
Vim plugin quick start
Compile the language server with
make lsp
Install the plugin itself by copying or symlinking whisper.vim into ~/.vim/autoload/
In your vimrc, set the path of your whisper.cpp directory and optionally add some keybinds.
let g:whisper_dir = "~/whisper.cpp"
" Start listening for commands when Ctrl - g is pressed in normal mode
nnoremap <C-G> call whisper#requestCommands()<CR>
" Start unguided transcription when Ctrl - g is pressed in insert mode
inoremap <C-G> <Cmd>call whisper#doTranscription()<CR>
Vim plugin usage
The vim plugin was designed to closely follow the mnemonics of vim
s:spoken_dict is used to translate keys to their spoken form.
Keys corresponding to a string use that spoken value normally and when a motion is expected, but use the key itself when a character is expected.
Keys corresponding to a dict, like i, can have manual difinitions given to each possible commandset.
0 is normal (insert), 1 is motion (inside), 2 is it's usage as a single key ([till] i), and 3 is it's usage in an area selection (s -> [around] sentence)
Some punctuation items, like - are explicitly given pronunciations to prevent them from being picked as punctuation instead of an actual command word.
Not all commands will tokenize to a single token and this can interfere with interpretation. "yank" as an example, takes multiple tokens and correspondingly, will give more accurate detection when only the first "ya" is used. While it could be changed to something else that is a single token (copy), value was placed on maintaining vim mnemonics.
Commands that would normally move the editor into insert mode (insert, append, open, change) will begin unguided transcription. Unguided transcription will end when a speech segment ends in exit. Presence of punctuation can be designated by whether or not you add a pause between the previous speech segment and exit. Exiting only occurs if exit is the last word, so "Take the first exit on your right" would not cause transcription to end.
After a command is evaluated, the plugin will continue listening for the next command.
While in command mode, "Exit" will end listening.
A best effort approach is taken to keep track of audio that is recorded while a previous chunk is still processing and immediately interpret it afterwards, but the current voice detection still needs a fairly sizable gap to determine when a command has been spoken.
Log information is sent to a special whisper_log buffer and can be accessed with
:e whisper_log
Vim plugin configuration
g:whisper_dir
A full path to the whisper.cpp repo. It can be expanded in the definition like so:
let g:whisper_dir = expand("~/whisper.cpp/")
(The WHISPER_CPP_HOME environment variable is also checked for users of the existing whisper.nvim script)
g:whisper_lsp_path
Can be used to manually set the path to the language server.
If not defined, it will be inferred from the above whisper_dir
g:whisper_model_path
A full path to the model to load. If not defined, it will default to ggml-base.en.bin
g:whisper_user_commands
A dictionary of spoken commands that correspond to either strings or funcrefs.
This can be used to create connections with other user plugins, for example
let g:whisper_user_commands = {"gen": "llama#doLlamaGen"}
will trigger the llama.cpp plugin to begin generation when "gen" is spoken
Language server methods
registerCommandset
params is a list of strings that should be checked for with this commandset. The server prepends a space to these strings before tokenizing.
Responds with
result.index an integer index for the commandset registered, which should be included when initiating a guided transcription to select this commandset.
Will return an error if any of the commands in the commandset have duplicate tokenizations
guided
params.commandset_index An index returned by a corresponding commandset registration. If not set, the most recently registered commandset is used.
params.timestamp A positive unsigned integer which designates a point in time which audio should begin processing from. If left blank, the start point of audio processing will be the moment the message is recieved. This should be left blank unless you have a timestamp from a previous response.
Responds with
result.command_index The numerical index (starting from 0) of the detected command in the selected commandset
result.command_text A string containing the command as provided in the commandset
result.timestamp A positive unsigned integer that designates the point in time which audio stopped being processed at. Pass this timestamp back in a subsequent message to mask the latency of transcription.
unguided
params.no_context Sets the corresponding whisper no_context param. Defaults to true. Might provide more accurate results for consecutive unguided transcriptions if those after the first are set to false.
params.prompt If provided, sets the initial prompt used during transcription.
params.timestamp A positive unsigned integer which designates a point in time which audio should begin processing from. If left blank, the start point of audio processing will be the moment the message is recieved. This should be left blank unless you have a timestamp from a previous response.
Responds with
result.transcription A string containing the transcribed text. N.B. This will almost always start with a space due to how text is tokenized.
result.timestamp A positive unsigned integer that designates the point in time which audio stopped being processed at. Pass this timestamp back in a subsequent message to mask the latency of transcription.