Whisper Diarization Pipeline Blocked | Generated by AI

Home 2026.06

Got it. Here’s what happened last time:

== SUMMARY ==

  1. Created ww/audio/whisper_diarize.py — a new module using whisperx Python API with 3-step pipeline: transcribe → align timestamps → diarize with pyannote.

  2. Wired it into ww/main.py as ww whisper diarize <file> (alongside existing ww whisper, ww whisper refine, ww whisper organize).

  3. Added help text in main.py and updated zsh completions at /home/lzw/projects/ww/completions/_ww

  4. Installed whisperx into ~/projects/whisper-playground/.venv/ (the playground’s venv, not the ww project’s venv).

  5. Tested with ~/projects/whisper-playground/yangyang/yangyang.mp4 but BLOCKED:
    • The faster-whisper-large-v3 model (~3GB) download kept stalling mid-download (network/proxy issue to HuggingFace CDN)
    • Got to ~2.8GB multiple times then froze
    • The base model loaded fine (small ~150MB), proving CUDA works on the RTX 4070

  6. Session ended with two options presented: A) Download large-v3 with aria2c (multi-connection, faster) B) Use medium model (~1.5GB, still good accuracy for Chinese)

    You never picked — the session ran out of iterations.

== WHAT’S LEFT ==

Want me to pick up where we left off? I’d go with aria2c for the large-v3 download — it’s the proven workaround for this machine’s HF download stalling issue (noted in memory).

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