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/**
* Inference Web Worker (Decisions.md D-003 — inference never runs on the main
* thread). Hosts the Transformers.js `automatic-speech-recognition` pipeline.
*
* M2: hardware backend detection with automatic fallback — "auto" resolves
* WebNN → WebGPU → WASM (D-004, D-017) — catalog-driven dtype defaults
* (D-006), model switching with pipeline disposal, and language/task options
* for multilingual models.
*/
import {
env,
pipeline,
WhisperTextStreamer,
type AutomaticSpeechRecognitionPipeline,
type ProgressInfo,
} from "@huggingface/transformers";
import { resolveDefaultDtype } from "../lib/models";
import {
deviceAttempts,
isUiToWorkerMessage,
TranscribeProgressTracker,
type DeviceCapabilities,
type DevicePreference,
type InferenceDevice,
type LoadMessage,
type ResultMessage,
type TranscribeMessage,
type TranscriptChunk,
type WorkerToUiMessage,
} from "./protocol";
// Load onnxruntime's .wasm binaries from our own origin instead of the
// jsdelivr CDN default — required for offline use (M3). The server exposes
// them at /ort/* (src/index.ts; copied into dist/ort by scripts/build.ts)
// and the service worker runtime-caches them cache-first (src/pwa/sw.ts).
if (env.backends.onnx.wasm) {
env.backends.onnx.wasm.wasmPaths = "./ort/";
}
// `lib: ["DOM"]` types `self` as Window; give it the worker-scope shape we use.
interface DedicatedWorkerScope {
postMessage(message: WorkerToUiMessage): void;
addEventListener(
type: "message",
listener: (event: MessageEvent<unknown>) => void,
): void;
}
const scope = self as unknown as DedicatedWorkerScope;
function post(message: WorkerToUiMessage): void {
scope.postMessage(message);
}
function errorMessage(error: unknown): string {
return error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error);
}
/**
* Forward Transformers.js progress events to the UI as load-progress messages.
* The library's own "ready" event is swallowed — the worker posts its own
* `ready` (with the selected device) once the pipeline actually resolved,
* which also covers the device fallback retries (D-004, D-017).
*/
function forwardProgress(info: ProgressInfo): void {
switch (info.status) {
case "initiate":
case "download":
case "done":
post({ type: "load-progress", status: info.status, file: info.file });
break;
case "progress":
post({
type: "load-progress",
status: "progress",
file: info.file,
loaded: info.loaded,
total: info.total,
progress: info.progress,
});
break;
default:
// "ready" (posted by the worker itself, with the device) and
// "progress_total" — the UI derives totals per-file itself.
break;
}
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Device selection (D-004, D-017): "auto" resolves WebNN → WebGPU → WASM.
// The probe only answers "does the backend exist?"; the attempt ordering and
// fallback policy live in the pure `deviceAttempts` (protocol.ts, unit-tested).
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
interface NavigatorWithHardware {
gpu?: { requestAdapter(): Promise<unknown | null> };
ml?: unknown;
}
async function probeCapabilities(
preference: DevicePreference,
): Promise<DeviceCapabilities> {
const capabilities: DeviceCapabilities = { webnn: false, webgpu: false };
const hardware = navigator as NavigatorWithHardware;
if (preference === "auto" || preference === "webnn") {
try {
capabilities.webnn = Boolean(hardware.ml);
} catch {
// Probing threw — treat WebNN as unavailable.
}
}
if (preference === "auto" || preference === "webgpu") {
try {
capabilities.webgpu = Boolean(await hardware.gpu?.requestAdapter());
} catch {
// Probing threw — treat WebGPU as unavailable.
}
}
return capabilities;
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Pipeline lifecycle (load, switch, dispose)
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
interface ActivePipeline {
/** Identity of this load request; a different key means "switch models". */
key: string;
promise: Promise<AutomaticSpeechRecognitionPipeline>;
}
let active: ActivePipeline | null = null;
function loadKey(message: LoadMessage): string {
return JSON.stringify({
modelId: message.modelId,
device: message.device,
dtype: message.dtype ?? null,
});
}
async function createPipeline(
message: LoadMessage,
): Promise<AutomaticSpeechRecognitionPipeline> {
// Ordered devices to try (D-004/D-017): the first is the selected device;
// if pipeline creation throws there (driver quirks, unsupported ops,
// out-of-memory), the next one is tried automatically. For "auto" the chain
// is WebNN → WebGPU → WASM (filtered by the probe); WASM always terminates it.
const attempts: InferenceDevice[] = deviceAttempts(
message.device,
await probeCapabilities(message.device),
);
let lastError: unknown;
for (const device of attempts) {
const dtype = message.dtype ?? resolveDefaultDtype(message.modelId, device);
try {
const asr = await pipeline("automatic-speech-recognition", message.modelId, {
device,
dtype,
// WASM sessions cap graph optimization at "basic" (D-014): the level-2
// QDQ transform in the bundled onnxruntime-web build rejects the 8-bit
// decoders' tied embed_tokens weight ("Missing required scale …
// DequantizeLinear"). q4 models use native MatMulNBits ops, so the
// lower level costs them nothing. WebGPU keeps the default level.
...(device === "wasm" && {
session_options: { graphOptimizationLevel: "basic" as const },
}),
progress_callback: forwardProgress,
});
post({ type: "load-progress", status: "ready", device });
return asr;
} catch (error) {
lastError = error;
}
}
throw lastError;
}
function load(message: LoadMessage): Promise<AutomaticSpeechRecognitionPipeline> {
const key = loadKey(message);
// Idempotent: repeated "load" messages for the same model/device/dtype reuse
// the in-flight or completed pipeline.
if (active?.key === key) return active.promise;
const previous = active;
const promise = (async () => {
if (previous) {
// Dispose the old pipeline (frees WASM memory / GPU buffers) before
// creating the new one, so both never coexist.
try {
const old = await previous.promise;
await old.dispose();
} catch {
// The previous load itself failed — nothing to dispose.
}
}
return createPipeline(message);
})();
active = { key, promise };
promise.catch(() => {
// Allow a clean retry after a failed load; ignore stale failures that
// were already superseded by a newer load request.
if (active?.key === key) active = null;
});
return promise;
}
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Transcription
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
/** Audio sample rate the whole app standardizes on (D-012). */
const SAMPLE_RATE = 16_000;
/** Chunked-pipeline window / overlap, in seconds (Whisper's usual 30/5). */
const CHUNK_LENGTH_S = 30;
const STRIDE_LENGTH_S = 5;
async function transcribe(message: TranscribeMessage): Promise<void> {
if (active === null) {
post({
type: "error",
stage: "transcribe",
message: "No model loaded — send a \"load\" message first.",
requestId: message.requestId,
});
return;
}
const asr = await active.promise;
const options: Record<string, unknown> = {
chunk_length_s: CHUNK_LENGTH_S,
stride_length_s: STRIDE_LENGTH_S,
return_timestamps: true,
// With return_timestamps and no explicit max_new_tokens, Transformers.js
// 4.2's Whisper generate() takes a seek-loop path that re-decodes each
// window's tail (1–3 generate passes per window). Under this pipeline's
// own 30 s/5 s chunking that is pure overhead: ~1.4× slower on long
// files, duplicated boundary text, on_finalize firing once per pass
// (breaking TranscribeProgressTracker's one-finalize-per-window
// assumption — the progress bar saturated early, then looked frozen),
// and a potential infinite loop when a window's last boundary timestamp
// is 0. Setting max_new_tokens selects the classic single-pass path;
// 440 ≈ Whisper's 448 decoder positions minus prompt headroom, far more
// than any real 30 s window produces.
max_new_tokens: 440,
};
if (message.stream ?? message.requestId === undefined) {
// File-flow pass (id-less, or routed through BrowserEngine with an
// explicit stream flag, D-010): stream partial tokens and report audio
// progress. The streamer's chunk timestamps are window-relative; the
// tracker maps them to monotone absolute seconds (see protocol.ts).
// Live passes skip both — they resolve wholesale via "result" (D-016).
const totalSeconds = message.audio.length / SAMPLE_RATE;
const tracker = new TranscribeProgressTracker(
totalSeconds,
CHUNK_LENGTH_S,
CHUNK_LENGTH_S - 2 * STRIDE_LENGTH_S,
);
const postProgress = (processedSeconds: number | null) => {
if (processedSeconds === null) return;
post({
type: "transcribe-progress",
processedSeconds,
totalSeconds,
requestId: message.requestId,
});
};
// Immediate 0/total so the UI shows the audio length before the first
// (possibly slow) token arrives.
post({
type: "transcribe-progress",
processedSeconds: 0,
totalSeconds,
requestId: message.requestId,
});
options.streamer = new WhisperTextStreamer(
// The ASR pipeline for Whisper models always carries a WhisperTokenizer.
asr.tokenizer as ConstructorParameters<typeof WhisperTextStreamer>[0],
{
skip_prompt: true,
callback_function: (text: string) =>
post({ type: "partial", text, requestId: message.requestId }),
on_chunk_start: (time: number) => postProgress(tracker.timestamp(time)),
on_chunk_end: (time: number) => postProgress(tracker.timestamp(time)),
on_finalize: () => postProgress(tracker.finalizeWindow()),
},
);
}
// Only meaningful for multilingual models; the UI omits these for `.en`
// variants. "auto" / undefined lets Whisper detect the language.
if (message.language !== undefined && message.language !== "auto") {
options.language = message.language;
}
if (message.task !== undefined) {
options.task = message.task;
}
const output = await asr(message.audio, options);
const single = (Array.isArray(output) ? output[0] : output) as {
text?: string;
chunks?: TranscriptChunk[];
};
const result: ResultMessage = {
type: "result",
text: (single.text ?? "").trim(),
chunks: single.chunks ?? [],
requestId: message.requestId,
};
post(result);
}
scope.addEventListener("message", (event) => {
const data = event.data;
if (!isUiToWorkerMessage(data)) {
post({
type: "error",
stage: "transcribe",
message: "Malformed message sent to inference worker.",
});
return;
}
switch (data.type) {
case "load":
load(data).catch((error: unknown) => {
post({ type: "error", stage: "load", message: errorMessage(error) });
});
break;
case "transcribe":
transcribe(data).catch((error: unknown) => {
post({
type: "error",
stage: "transcribe",
message: errorMessage(error),
requestId: data.requestId,
});
});
break;
}
});