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vosk-koffi does not require the python environment to be installed and other additional environments
Hello @tocha688,
You are right; ffi-napi is problematic, and node-gyp is frustrating.
I wasn't aware of koffi before, but it appears to offer much better performance and usability than ffi-napi, which is excellent!
I just looked into your vosk-koffi, and it seems that the package size is quite large compared to vosk-lib because it bundles the shared libraries for three platforms into one package. I think using a post-install script to download platform-dependent libraries from the official release could significantly reduce the package size. Additionally, I would prefer not to include and use binaries from an unknown source, which is a terrible idea. Please use the officially released ones or have trackable ways to build them (such as using GitHub Actions...).
After these problems are solved, we can definitely replace vosk-lib with vosk-koffi.
Also, this package uses pnpm as its package manager during development. Please remove the yarn.lock file and update the pnpm-lock.yaml file.
Thanks.
@JacobLinCool
node-ffi-napi
, which vosk-lib
depends on, is completely broken in the latest version of Node 22. ^1
Personally, I think this PR proposal is good. (Currently, I think it is unavoidable that the bundle size will increase.)
I'm also looking forward to the new version being published to npm.
@k725
It seems that @tocha688 has done something to reduce the package size.
I am going to merge this.
Released with v0.3.0
vosk-koffi is based on koffi while vosk-lib is based on ffi-napi, and it is well known that ffi-napi has a lot of problems.