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Aaron Boxer 18b897277f Add real-time speaker diarization support
- New whisper_live/diarization.py: SpeakerDiarizer with online clustering
- Uses pyannote.audio speaker embeddings (optional dependency)
- Cosine similarity threshold for speaker matching (default 0.55)
- Running average embedding update for speaker stability
- Configurable max_speakers limit (default 10)
- Client options: enable_diarization, max_speakers
- Segments include 'speaker' field when diarization is active
- Graceful fallback: logs warning if pyannote not installed
- Added 12 unit tests (mock-based, no GPU required)
2026-05-13 10:50:59 -04:00

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"""
Optional speaker diarization module for WhisperLive.
Uses speaker embeddings and online clustering to assign speaker labels
to transcription segments in real-time. Requires pyannote.audio as an
optional dependency.
Install: pip install pyannote.audio
"""
import logging
import numpy as np
class SpeakerDiarizer:
"""Real-time speaker diarization using speaker embeddings and online clustering.
Each completed transcription segment's audio is passed through a speaker
embedding model. The embedding is compared against known speakers using
cosine similarity. If no match exceeds the threshold, a new speaker is
created.
Args:
similarity_threshold (float): Minimum cosine similarity to match an
existing speaker. Lower values merge speakers more aggressively.
Default 0.55.
max_speakers (int): Maximum number of distinct speakers to track.
Once reached, new segments are assigned to the closest existing
speaker. Default 10.
embedding_model (str): The pyannote embedding model to use.
Default "pyannote/wespeaker-voxceleb-resnet34-LM".
hf_token (str or None): HuggingFace token for gated model access.
"""
def __init__(
self,
similarity_threshold=0.55,
max_speakers=10,
embedding_model="pyannote/wespeaker-voxceleb-resnet34-LM",
hf_token=None,
):
self.similarity_threshold = similarity_threshold
self.max_speakers = max_speakers
self.speakers = {} # speaker_id -> embedding (averaged)
self._speaker_count = 0
self._model = None
self._embedding_model_name = embedding_model
self._hf_token = hf_token
def _load_model(self):
"""Lazy-load the embedding model on first use."""
if self._model is not None:
return
try:
from pyannote.audio import Model, Inference
import torch
model = Model.from_pretrained(
self._embedding_model_name,
use_auth_token=self._hf_token,
)
device = "cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu"
self._model = Inference(model, window="whole", device=torch.device(device))
logging.info(f"Speaker embedding model loaded on {device}")
except ImportError:
raise ImportError(
"pyannote.audio is required for speaker diarization. "
"Install it with: pip install pyannote.audio"
)
def _compute_embedding(self, audio_np, sample_rate=16000):
"""Compute a speaker embedding from an audio numpy array.
Args:
audio_np (np.ndarray): 1-D float32 audio samples.
sample_rate (int): Sample rate of the audio.
Returns:
np.ndarray: Speaker embedding vector, or None if audio is too short.
"""
self._load_model()
if len(audio_np) < sample_rate * 0.3:
return None
waveform = {
"waveform": __import__("torch").tensor(audio_np).unsqueeze(0),
"sample_rate": sample_rate,
}
embedding = self._model(waveform)
return embedding / np.linalg.norm(embedding)
@staticmethod
def _cosine_similarity(a, b):
"""Compute cosine similarity between two vectors."""
return float(np.dot(a, b))
def identify_speaker(self, audio_np, sample_rate=16000):
"""Identify or create a speaker from an audio segment.
Args:
audio_np (np.ndarray): 1-D float32 audio for the segment.
sample_rate (int): Sample rate. Default 16000.
Returns:
str or None: Speaker label (e.g. "SPEAKER_00"), or None if
the audio is too short to embed.
"""
embedding = self._compute_embedding(audio_np, sample_rate)
if embedding is None:
return None
best_speaker = None
best_sim = -1.0
for speaker_id, stored_emb in self.speakers.items():
sim = self._cosine_similarity(embedding, stored_emb)
if sim > best_sim:
best_sim = sim
best_speaker = speaker_id
if best_sim >= self.similarity_threshold:
# Update running average for the matched speaker
self.speakers[best_speaker] = (
self.speakers[best_speaker] * 0.9 + embedding * 0.1
)
# Re-normalize
self.speakers[best_speaker] /= np.linalg.norm(self.speakers[best_speaker])
return best_speaker
if len(self.speakers) >= self.max_speakers:
# Assign to closest speaker
return best_speaker if best_speaker else f"SPEAKER_{self._speaker_count:02d}"
# Create a new speaker
speaker_id = f"SPEAKER_{self._speaker_count:02d}"
self._speaker_count += 1
self.speakers[speaker_id] = embedding
return speaker_id
def reset(self):
"""Reset all speaker state."""
self.speakers.clear()
self._speaker_count = 0