Whisper Troubleshoot Request

[Statford]

Hello,

First off I want to apologize if this is a commonly asked question and if I have broken any of the rules in regards to looking first? I had a poke around to find my problem and this is my first time doing something like this.

I downloaded Whisper-stt via SIllyTavern Extras and I can't seem to get it to work. After a week and a half of reading documentation, looking up youtube videos, and googling for answers to my problem; I'm at a loss to how to fix it.

I had some people help me troubleshoot who had working copies and I've noticed that when I do boot up it never says "Initializing Whisper speech-recognition (from ST request file)" when I do boot up. Everything else in STExtras works fine, SillyTavern is up-to-date, and the Speech Recognition add-on is working as I have used stt via the browser to make sure it wasn't my microphone.

I'm fairly positive it has something to do with a borked Whisper install via SillyTavern Extras but I was hoping to get some more light shed on what happened so I can at least go to Whisper (If I have too) with more information.

Thanks!

[Cohee1207]

Have you read the docs? https://docs.sillytavern.app/extras/extensions/speech-recognition/ By screenshot it looks like you're missing it from the enable-modules string.

[Statford]

Have you read the docs? https://docs.sillytavern.app/extras/extensions/speech-recognition/ By screenshot it looks like you're missing it from the enable-modules string.

I use a .bat to boot and this is what my .bat looks like:

cd C:\Users\jocat\SillyTavern-extras call conda activate extras python server.py --enable-modules=whisper-stt--cpu call conda deactivate pause

[Cohee1207]

You're missing a space between stt and --cpu

[Statford]

Whoops, fixed that and I got this :/.

[Statford]

I'm still troubleshooting this problem, I did some research and they said it might be a pathing problem to python? I can "where python" and find it but I'm kind of unsure how to fix it other than going line by line in every .py to see where the problem is.

[Statford]

After testing some solutions out yesterday, I think the problem was ultimately user error :p in me poking around in the conda modules for Whisper or in ST-Extra's files. I've uninstalled and reninstalled ST-Extras but I still have the same error, does ST keep previously downloaded (and edited) documents when you uninstall? I have no idea how to uninstall and reinstall the conda end of Whisper.

[Cohee1207]

Delete the conda env and start anew. https://stackoverflow.com/a/49128056

[Statford]

Okay, I'll also reinstall ST-Extras on top of that. But I have a very embarrasing question, ST has to be in staging right?

[Statford]

Okay, so I reinstalled everything and now Whisper is actually working on sillytavern but no matter what I say the output is always just "you".

[Statford]

Okay, so I let the problem sit for a week before going back to it and now all of a sudden it works after reboot. I'm running it on release too, which surprized me because a lot of people were telling me that I should be in staging, but I also heard somewhere that you no longer need to use staging as it could be done on release as well, so maybe the doumentation for Whisper STT should be updated to reflect that?

Either way, I'm estatic that it now works but I do have 1 final question, if you would indulge me before I close out the thread.

What would you recommend I read (outside of the documentation that comes with the programs) or watch to help me get better at troubleshooting stuff like this in the future? Thanks!

[Statford]

I assume you've been busy, thanks for the help! I appreciate it!