Merge pull request #11 from soderstromkr/copilot/update-whisper-device-parameter

Pass explicit device parameter to whisper.load_model() for MPS acceleration

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# Python cache
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
+
+# Virtual environments
+venv/
+env/
+ENV/
+
+# IDE
+.vscode/
+.idea/
+*.swp
+*.swo
+*~
+
+# OS
+.DS_Store
+Thumbs.db
+
+# Build artifacts
+dist/
+build/
+*.egg-info/

src/_LocalTranscribe.py

@@ -40,16 +40,19 @@ def transcribe(path, glob_file, model=None, language=None, verbose=False):
           within the specified path.
 
     """
-    # Check for GPU acceleration
+    # Check for GPU acceleration and set device
     if backends.mps.is_available():
+        device = 'mps'
         Generator('mps').manual_seed(42)
     elif cuda.is_available():
+        device = 'cuda'
         Generator('cuda').manual_seed(42)
     else:
+        device = 'cpu'
         Generator().manual_seed(42)
 
-    # Load model
+    # Load model on the correct device
-    model = whisper.load_model(model)
+    model = whisper.load_model(model, device=device)
     # Start main loop
     files_transcripted=[]   
     for file in glob_file: