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Separates vocal tracks from instrumental accompaniment in audio files using AI-powered stem separation. Produces isolated vocal stems that can be exported independently from the original mix.
Extracts drum and percussion elements from a mixed audio track as a separate stem. Isolates rhythm section components for independent manipulation or analysis.
Separates bass guitar or bass synth elements from a mixed audio track. Produces an isolated bass stem for independent editing, replacement, or analysis.
Decomposes a mixed audio track into multiple isolated instrument stems (vocals, drums, bass, other instruments) in a single processing operation. Provides comprehensive track breakdown for full remix or production control.
Adjusts the pitch of audio tracks up or down in real-time without changing tempo or introducing audible artifacts. Allows transposition and key changes while maintaining natural sound quality.
Changes the speed and tempo of audio tracks without altering pitch. Enables tempo changes for practice, performance matching, or creative experimentation while preserving the original key.
Processes multiple audio files simultaneously for stem separation, pitch shifting, or tempo adjustment. Automates repetitive audio processing tasks across large music libraries or collections.
Exports processed audio stems and adjusted tracks in multiple audio formats. Handles format conversion and quality settings for compatibility with different DAWs, platforms, and use cases.
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Transcribes audio in 98 languages to text in the original language using a Transformer sequence-to-sequence architecture trained on 680,000 hours of diverse internet audio. The system uses mel spectrogram feature extraction via FFmpeg integration, processes audio through an AudioEncoder that generates embeddings, then applies an autoregressive TextDecoder with task-specific tokens to produce language-native transcriptions. Language-specific models (e.g., tiny.en, base.en) optimize for English-only workloads with reduced parameter count.
Unique: Unified multitasking Transformer model replaces traditional multi-stage speech pipelines (VAD → language detection → ASR → post-processing) with single forward pass; trained on 680K hours of internet audio providing robustness to background noise, accents, and technical speech unlike studio-trained competitors
vs alternatives: Outperforms Google Cloud Speech-to-Text and Azure Speech Services on non-English languages and noisy audio due to diverse training data; open-source allows local deployment without API latency or privacy concerns
Translates non-English speech directly to English text in a single forward pass using the same Transformer architecture as transcription, but with a translation task token prepended to the decoder input. The model learns to skip intermediate transcription and generate English output directly from audio embeddings, avoiding cascading errors from intermediate transcription steps. Supports 98 source languages translating to English only.
Unique: Direct audio-to-English translation without intermediate transcription step — the decoder learns to skip source language text generation and output English directly, reducing error propagation and latency compared to cascade approaches (transcribe → translate)
vs alternatives: Faster and more accurate than Google Translate + Google Speech-to-Text pipeline because it avoids intermediate transcription errors; open-source allows offline deployment unlike cloud translation APIs
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Normalizes variable-length audio to exactly 30 seconds via `whisper.pad_or_trim()`: audio shorter than 30 seconds is padded with silence (zeros) to reach 30 seconds, audio longer than 30 seconds is trimmed to first 30 seconds. This ensures consistent input shape (80×3000 mel spectrogram) for the model, avoiding shape mismatches and enabling batch processing. Padding strategy is simple zero-padding rather than sophisticated techniques like repetition or interpolation.
Unique: Simple zero-padding strategy is computationally efficient and deterministic, but acoustically naive — alternative approaches (silence detection, repetition) not implemented in base library
vs alternatives: Simpler than librosa-based preprocessing with sophisticated padding; deterministic behavior aids reproducibility; zero-padding is fast but may introduce artifacts vs more sophisticated techniques
Returns transcription results as structured JSON objects containing: transcribed text, language code, duration, segments (with timing and text), and optional confidence metrics. The `model.transcribe()` API returns a dictionary with keys like 'text' (full transcript), 'language' (detected language), 'segments' (list of segment objects with start/end times and text). This structured format enables downstream processing (subtitle generation, database storage, API responses) without string parsing.
Unique: Structured output format is built into high-level API rather than requiring manual parsing — segments include timing and text, enabling direct use for subtitle generation or timeline-based applications
vs alternatives: More structured than raw text output; less detailed than forced alignment tools that provide phoneme-level information; JSON format is language-agnostic and integrates easily with web APIs
Detects the spoken language in audio by processing mel spectrograms through the AudioEncoder and using a language classification head that outputs probability distributions over 98 supported languages. The model leverages 680K hours of multilingual training data to recognize language characteristics from acoustic features alone, without requiring transcription. Language detection occurs as a preliminary step in the transcription pipeline and can be called independently via the language detection task token.
Unique: Language detection is integrated into the same Transformer model as transcription/translation via task tokens, allowing shared AudioEncoder computation and single model load — not a separate classifier, reducing memory footprint and inference overhead
vs alternatives: More accurate than acoustic-only language identification (e.g., librosa-based approaches) because it leverages semantic understanding from 680K hours of training; faster than transcription-based detection (identify language from first few words) because it uses acoustic features directly
Provides six model variants (tiny 39M, base 74M, small 244M, medium 769M, large 1550M, turbo 809M) with different parameter counts, VRAM requirements (1-10GB), and inference speeds (10x-1x relative to large). Each size trades accuracy for speed — tiny runs ~10x faster but with ~5-10% lower WER (word error rate), while large provides best accuracy at 10GB VRAM cost. Turbo variant (809M params) optimizes large-v3 for 8x speedup with minimal accuracy loss but lacks translation support.
Unique: Discrete model size family with published speed/accuracy/VRAM tradeoff matrix allows developers to make informed selection based on deployment constraints; turbo variant represents architectural optimization (knowledge distillation or pruning) achieving 8x speedup with <5% accuracy loss, distinct from simply using smaller base model
vs alternatives: More transparent tradeoff options than Whisper API (single model) or competitors like Deepgram (proprietary size selection); open-source allows local benchmarking on own hardware rather than relying on vendor performance claims
Automatically segments audio longer than 30 seconds into overlapping windows, processes each window independently through the transcription pipeline, and merges results with overlap handling to produce seamless full-length transcripts. The system uses `whisper.pad_or_trim()` to normalize each segment to exactly 30 seconds (padding with silence if needed), then applies the decoder to each segment and concatenates outputs while managing word-level boundaries and timestamp continuity across segment edges.
Unique: Sliding window approach with automatic overlap and boundary handling is built into high-level `model.transcribe()` API — developers don't manually implement segmentation, unlike lower-level APIs that require explicit window management
vs alternatives: Simpler than building custom segmentation logic; more robust than naive concatenation because it handles word-level boundary issues; faster than streaming approaches because it processes segments in parallel on GPU
Generates precise word-level timestamps (start and end times in milliseconds) for each word in the transcript by leveraging the decoder's attention weights and token alignment information. The system maps output tokens back to audio frames using the attention mechanism, then converts frame indices to millisecond timestamps based on the mel spectrogram hop length (20ms per frame). Timestamps are returned as part of the structured output alongside transcribed text.
Unique: Word-level timestamps are derived from attention weight alignment rather than separate timestamp prediction head — leverages existing decoder computation without additional model parameters, but introduces ±100-200ms uncertainty from frame quantization
vs alternatives: More granular than segment-level timestamps (which only mark 30-second boundaries); less accurate than forced alignment tools (e.g., Montreal Forced Aligner) but requires no phonetic lexicon or manual annotation
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