Asynchronous transcription via asyncio

[serozhenka]

Using asyncio will be greatly beneficial in the use case of transcription as most of the time the client waits for a response on a socket when your servers are doing all the great work.

concurrent.futures implementation still works but is not as good for two main reasons:

• The hardware capabilities limit the number of executor workers (or just threads), unlike asyncio's lightweight coroutines
• concurrent.futures module issues blocking operations which can block the event loop in a fully asynchronous environment

Hope for positive feedback on that!

[ploeber]

Hey @serozhenka , great feedback! It's actually on my TODO list for v 1.0.0 to introduce an asyncio client.

I plan to introduce it before v.1.0 so there's a transition period where both asyncio and the threading solution with the _async() functions can be used.

[serozhenka]

Sounds great! Do you have an approximate ETA of when can I expect it to be ready?

[ploeber]

aiming for Q4 2024