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LocalAI/backend/cpp/audio-cpp/transcript_assembly.h
Ettore Di Giacinto 7ce4b36837 backend(audio-cpp): fix the segment text a transcription response is built from
Segment text is not decoration. core/http/endpoints/openai/transcription.go
routes response_format text, srt, vtt and lrc through
schema.TranscriptionResponse, which builds the entire body out of
Segments[].Text and never reads the top-level text. So for those four
formats the segment text IS the response.

nemotron_asr emits one word_timestamp per SentencePiece token, and the
word boundary is carried as a LEADING SPACE on the piece ("So", "me",
" call"). join_words inserted a space unconditionally, so
response_format=text returned "So me  call   me  na ture ," while the
correct sentence sat unread in the top-level field. The separator is now
chosen from the words themselves: whole words are space-joined, subword
pieces are concatenated, and one leading space anywhere selects the
latter. Concatenating the real nemotron pieces reproduces text_output
exactly, verified end to end.

This does not touch the top-level text, which is still text_output
verbatim. The rule that forbids deriving the transcript from the segments
is about the direction segments -> text; segment text has no source other
than its words.

Two smaller corrections in the same area:

timestamp_granularities ["word"] set only "word_timestamps", a key no
family in the pinned upstream reads. It now sets "return_timestamps",
which qwen3_asr does read and which both runs its forced aligner and
shortens its chunk window, so asking for word granularity no longer
silently returns nothing.

The request-option comment claimed more than it delivered. prompt,
translate and temperature are read by no ASR family, and are forwarded
only so a family adopting them works unchanged; the comment now says so
per key, and gives TranscriptRequest.diarize the same explicit treatment
threads already had.

Also: the shipping target now carries -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic, which it
never did, so "the build is clean" starts meaning something; and
fill_transcript_result no longer swallows a null response pointer, since
answering OK with an empty transcript is the one failure mode this unit
exists to prevent.

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-5 [Claude Code]
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
2026-07-29 19:03:33 +00:00

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