whisper : restore decoder temperature fallbacks

I disabled this because there were many complaints about slow decoding.
The current implementation does not allow batching the decoders when
using the "best of" or "beam size" parameters, so the decoding time is
proportional to the number of decoders, which is obviously not great.

However, now there are even more complaints about wrong decodings and
repetition.

So, making a compromise by re-enabling the fallbacks, but defaulting to
just 2 "best of" / "beam size" decoders. Also, the temperature step is
increased from 0.2 to 0.4 - i.e. from maximum of 5 fallbacks to maximum
of 2.

Also, the stream example now has fallbacks enabled by default.

close #471 #477 #508 #612 #719 #731

Author: ggerganov

examples/main/main.cpp

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ struct whisper_params {
     int32_t duration_ms  =  0;
     int32_t max_context  = -1;
     int32_t max_len      =  0;
-    int32_t best_of      =  5;
+    int32_t best_of      =  2;
     int32_t beam_size    = -1;
 
     float word_thold    =  0.01f;

examples/stream/stream.cpp

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ struct whisper_params {
 
     bool speed_up      = false;
     bool translate     = false;
+    bool no_fallback   = false;
     bool print_special = false;
     bool no_context    = true;
     bool no_timestamps = false;
@@ -73,6 +74,7 @@ bool whisper_params_parse(int argc, char ** argv, whisper_params & params) {
         else if (arg == "-fth" || arg == "--freq-thold")    { params.freq_thold    = std::stof(argv[++i]); }
         else if (arg == "-su"  || arg == "--speed-up")      { params.speed_up      = true; }
         else if (arg == "-tr"  || arg == "--translate")     { params.translate     = true; }
+        else if (arg == "-nf"  || arg == "--no-fallback")   { params.no_fallback   = true; }
         else if (arg == "-ps"  || arg == "--print-special") { params.print_special = true; }
         else if (arg == "-kc"  || arg == "--keep-context")  { params.no_context    = false; }
         else if (arg == "-l"   || arg == "--language")      { params.language      = argv[++i]; }
@@ -94,22 +96,23 @@ void whisper_print_usage(int /*argc*/, char ** argv, const whisper_params & para
     fprintf(stderr, "\n");
     fprintf(stderr, "options:\n");
     fprintf(stderr, "  -h,       --help          [default] show this help message and exit\n");
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -t N,     --threads N     [%-7d] number of threads to use during computation\n", params.n_threads);
-    fprintf(stderr, "            --step N        [%-7d] audio step size in milliseconds\n",             params.step_ms);
-    fprintf(stderr, "            --length N      [%-7d] audio length in milliseconds\n",                params.length_ms);
-    fprintf(stderr, "            --keep N        [%-7d] audio to keep from previous step in ms\n",      params.keep_ms);
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -c ID,    --capture ID    [%-7d] capture device ID\n",                           params.capture_id);
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -mt N,    --max-tokens N  [%-7d] maximum number of tokens per audio chunk\n",    params.max_tokens);
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -ac N,    --audio-ctx N   [%-7d] audio context size (0 - all)\n",                params.audio_ctx);
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -vth N,   --vad-thold N   [%-7.2f] voice activity detection threshold\n",        params.vad_thold);
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -fth N,   --freq-thold N  [%-7.2f] high-pass frequency cutoff\n",                params.freq_thold);
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -su,      --speed-up      [%-7s] speed up audio by x2 (reduced accuracy)\n",     params.speed_up ? "true" : "false");
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -tr,      --translate     [%-7s] translate from source language to english\n",   params.translate ? "true" : "false");
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -ps,      --print-special [%-7s] print special tokens\n",                        params.print_special ? "true" : "false");
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -kc,      --keep-context  [%-7s] keep context between audio chunks\n",           params.no_context ? "false" : "true");
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -l LANG,  --language LANG [%-7s] spoken language\n",                             params.language.c_str());
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -m FNAME, --model FNAME   [%-7s] model path\n",                                  params.model.c_str());
-    fprintf(stderr, "  -f FNAME, --file FNAME    [%-7s] text output file name\n",                       params.fname_out.c_str());
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -t N,     --threads N     [%-7d] number of threads to use during computation\n",    params.n_threads);
+    fprintf(stderr, "            --step N        [%-7d] audio step size in milliseconds\n",                params.step_ms);
+    fprintf(stderr, "            --length N      [%-7d] audio length in milliseconds\n",                   params.length_ms);
+    fprintf(stderr, "            --keep N        [%-7d] audio to keep from previous step in ms\n",         params.keep_ms);
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -c ID,    --capture ID    [%-7d] capture device ID\n",                              params.capture_id);
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -mt N,    --max-tokens N  [%-7d] maximum number of tokens per audio chunk\n",       params.max_tokens);
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -ac N,    --audio-ctx N   [%-7d] audio context size (0 - all)\n",                   params.audio_ctx);
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -vth N,   --vad-thold N   [%-7.2f] voice activity detection threshold\n",           params.vad_thold);
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -fth N,   --freq-thold N  [%-7.2f] high-pass frequency cutoff\n",                   params.freq_thold);
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -su,      --speed-up      [%-7s] speed up audio by x2 (reduced accuracy)\n",        params.speed_up ? "true" : "false");
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -tr,      --translate     [%-7s] translate from source language to english\n",      params.translate ? "true" : "false");
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -nf,      --no-fallback   [%-7s] do not use temperature fallback while decoding\n", params.no_fallback ? "true" : "false");
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -ps,      --print-special [%-7s] print special tokens\n",                           params.print_special ? "true" : "false");
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -kc,      --keep-context  [%-7s] keep context between audio chunks\n",              params.no_context ? "false" : "true");
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -l LANG,  --language LANG [%-7s] spoken language\n",                                params.language.c_str());
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -m FNAME, --model FNAME   [%-7s] model path\n",                                     params.model.c_str());
+    fprintf(stderr, "  -f FNAME, --file FNAME    [%-7s] text output file name\n",                          params.fname_out.c_str());
     fprintf(stderr, "\n");
 }
 
@@ -297,7 +300,8 @@ int main(int argc, char ** argv) {
             wparams.speed_up         = params.speed_up;
 
             // disable temperature fallback
-            wparams.temperature_inc  = -1.0f;
+            //wparams.temperature_inc  = -1.0f;
+            wparams.temperature_inc  = params.no_fallback ? 0.0f : wparams.temperature_inc;
 
             wparams.prompt_tokens    = params.no_context ? nullptr : prompt_tokens.data();
             wparams.prompt_n_tokens  = params.no_context ? 0       : prompt_tokens.size();

whisper.cpp

@@ -3220,7 +3220,7 @@ struct whisper_full_params whisper_full_default_params(enum whisper_sampling_str
         /*.max_initial_ts   =*/  1.0f,
         /*.length_penalty   =*/ -1.0f,
 
-        /*.temperature_inc  =*/  0.0f, // TODO: temporary disabled until improve performance
+        /*.temperature_inc  =*/  0.4f,
         /*.entropy_thold    =*/  2.4f,
         /*.logprob_thold    =*/ -1.0f,
         /*.no_speech_thold  =*/  0.6f,
@@ -3252,13 +3252,13 @@ struct whisper_full_params whisper_full_default_params(enum whisper_sampling_str
         case WHISPER_SAMPLING_GREEDY:
             {
                 result.greedy = {
-                    /*.best_of   =*/ 1,
+                    /*.best_of   =*/ 2, // TODO: increase to 5 when we speed-up batch decoding
                 };
             } break;
         case WHISPER_SAMPLING_BEAM_SEARCH:
             {
                 result.beam_search = {
-                    /*.beam_size =*/ 5,
+                    /*.beam_size =*/ 2, // TODO: increase to 5 when we speed-up batch decoding
 
                     /*.patience  =*/ -1.0f,
                 };