Merge pull request #480 from Kokkini/feature/streaming-transcription-client

Add StreamingTranscriptionClient for streaming from any source
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Vineet Suryan
2026-07-17 12:24:02 +02:00
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import json
import time
import unittest
from unittest.mock import patch, MagicMock
import numpy as np
from whisper_live.client import Client, StreamingTranscriptionClient
class StreamingClientTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
@patch('whisper_live.client.websocket.WebSocketApp')
def setUp(self, mock_websocket):
self.mock_websocket = mock_websocket
self.mock_ws_app = mock_websocket.return_value
self.mock_ws_app.send = MagicMock()
self.committed = []
self.partials = []
self.session_started = []
self.client = StreamingTranscriptionClient(
host='localhost',
port=9090,
lang="en",
on_session_started=lambda: self.session_started.append(True),
on_committed_transcript=lambda text, segs: self.committed.append((text, segs)),
on_partial_transcript=lambda text, segs: self.partials.append((text, segs)),
)
self._inner = self.client._client
def tearDown(self):
self._inner.close_websocket()
self.mock_websocket.stop()
def _server_ready(self, backend="faster_whisper"):
self._inner.on_message(self.mock_ws_app, json.dumps({
"uid": self._inner.uid,
"message": "SERVER_READY",
"backend": backend,
}))
def _send_segments(self, segments):
self._inner.on_message(self.mock_ws_app, json.dumps({
"uid": self._inner.uid,
"segments": segments,
}))
class TestPcmFormatConversion(StreamingClientTestCase):
def test_int16_is_normalized_to_float32(self):
self._server_ready()
raw = np.array([0, 16384, -32768], dtype=np.int16).tobytes()
with patch.object(self._inner, 'send_packet_to_server') as mock_send:
self.client.send(raw, pcm_format="int16")
sent = np.frombuffer(mock_send.call_args[0][0], dtype=np.float32)
np.testing.assert_allclose(sent, [0.0, 0.5, -1.0], atol=1e-4)
def test_float32_passes_through(self):
self._server_ready()
raw = np.array([0.1, -0.2], dtype=np.float32).tobytes()
with patch.object(self._inner, 'send_packet_to_server') as mock_send:
self.client.send(raw, pcm_format="float32")
self.assertEqual(mock_send.call_args[0][0], raw)
def test_default_format_is_int16(self):
self._server_ready()
raw = np.array([32767], dtype=np.int16).tobytes()
with patch.object(self._inner, 'send_packet_to_server') as mock_send:
self.client.send(raw)
sent = np.frombuffer(mock_send.call_args[0][0], dtype=np.float32)
self.assertAlmostEqual(float(sent[0]), 32767 / 32768.0, places=4)
def test_unsupported_format_raises(self):
self._server_ready()
with self.assertRaises(ValueError):
self.client.send(b"\x00\x00", pcm_format="int8")
def test_send_after_close_raises(self):
self.client._closed = True
with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError):
self.client.send(b"\x00\x00", pcm_format="int16")
def test_send_array_normalizes_integers(self):
with patch.object(self._inner, 'send_packet_to_server') as mock_send:
self.client.send_array(np.array([0, 16384, -32768], dtype=np.int16))
sent = np.frombuffer(mock_send.call_args[0][0], dtype=np.float32)
np.testing.assert_allclose(sent, [0.0, 0.5, -1.0], atol=1e-4)
class TestTranscriptDispatch(StreamingClientTestCase):
def test_partial_then_committed(self):
self._server_ready()
self._send_segments([{"start": 0, "end": 1, "text": "hello", "completed": False}])
self.assertEqual(len(self.partials), 1)
self.assertEqual(self.partials[0][0], "hello")
self.assertEqual(len(self.committed), 0)
self._send_segments([{"start": 0, "end": 1, "text": "hello world", "completed": True}])
self.assertEqual(len(self.committed), 1)
self.assertEqual(self.committed[0][0], "hello world")
self.assertEqual(len(self.client.transcript), 1)
def test_committed_deduplicated(self):
self._server_ready()
seg = {"start": 0, "end": 1, "text": "hi", "completed": True}
self._send_segments([seg])
self._send_segments([seg])
self.assertEqual(len(self.committed), 1)
self.assertEqual(len(self.client.transcript), 1)
def test_committed_backend_agnostic(self):
"""Committed dispatch must work for non-faster_whisper backends."""
self._server_ready(backend="tensorrt")
self._send_segments([{"start": 0, "end": 1, "text": "trt seg", "completed": True}])
self.assertEqual(len(self.committed), 1)
self.assertEqual(len(self.client.transcript), 1)
def test_last_partial_alias(self):
self._server_ready()
self._send_segments([{"start": 0, "end": 1, "text": "pending", "completed": False}])
self.assertIsNotNone(self.client.last_partial)
self.assertIs(self.client.last_partial, self.client.last_segment)
class TestConnectLifecycle(StreamingClientTestCase):
def test_connect_returns_after_ready(self):
self._server_ready()
self.assertIs(self.client.connect(), self.client)
self.assertEqual(len(self.session_started), 1)
def test_connect_times_out(self):
self.client._ready_timeout = 0.1
with self.assertRaises(TimeoutError):
self.client.connect()
def test_connect_raises_on_server_error(self):
self._inner.on_message(self.mock_ws_app, json.dumps({
"uid": self._inner.uid,
"status": "ERROR",
"message": "boom",
}))
with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError):
self.client.connect()
def test_connect_raises_when_server_full(self):
self._inner.on_message(self.mock_ws_app, json.dumps({
"uid": self._inner.uid,
"status": "WAIT",
"message": 5,
}))
with self.assertRaises(RuntimeError):
self.client.connect()
def test_close_sends_end_of_audio(self):
self._server_ready()
self._inner.recording = False # pretend server already closed
with patch.object(self._inner, 'send_packet_to_server') as mock_send, \
patch.object(self._inner, 'close_websocket') as mock_close:
self.client.close()
mock_send.assert_called_once_with(Client.END_OF_AUDIO.encode("utf-8"))
mock_close.assert_called_once()
def test_close_waits_for_server_then_times_out(self):
self._server_ready()
self.assertTrue(self._inner.recording) # server still "processing"
start = time.time()
with patch.object(self._inner, 'send_packet_to_server'), \
patch.object(self._inner, 'close_websocket') as mock_close:
self.client.close(timeout=0.2)
self.assertGreaterEqual(time.time() - start, 0.2)
mock_close.assert_called_once()
def test_close_returns_early_when_server_closes(self):
self._server_ready()
def close_soon(_msg):
self._inner.recording = False
with patch.object(self._inner, 'send_packet_to_server', side_effect=close_soon), \
patch.object(self._inner, 'close_websocket') as mock_close:
start = time.time()
self.client.close(timeout=10.0)
self.assertLess(time.time() - start, 1.0)
mock_close.assert_called_once()
class TestErrorHandling(StreamingClientTestCase):
def test_close_frame_not_reported_as_error(self):
"""A normal CLOSE control frame (opcode 8) must not fire on_error."""
self._server_ready()
errors = []
self.client._client._on_error_hook = errors.append
close_frame = MagicMock()
close_frame.opcode = 8
self._inner.on_error(self.mock_ws_app, close_frame)
self.assertEqual(errors, [])
self.assertFalse(self._inner.server_error)
def test_real_error_still_reported(self):
self._server_ready()
errors = []
self.client._client._on_error_hook = errors.append
self._inner.on_error(self.mock_ws_app, RuntimeError("boom"))
self.assertEqual(len(errors), 1)
self.assertTrue(self._inner.server_error)
if __name__ == '__main__':
unittest.main()