How do I use whispercpp with options from whisper.cpp?

[hb-man]

Hi, a question about passing options of whisper.cpp described in its readme.
Say I want to run it with an option enabling saving transcription to an SRT files -osrt
How do I do that with whispercpp?

[aarnphm]

-osrt on main.cpp are postprocessing. You can do that in Python separately.

whisper.cpp provides the binding to the C API, and depends on the programmers to do whatever with it.

[aarnphm]

Take a look at how it is implemented in the cpp file. All of the options API are 1-to-1 conversion from the C API

[jake1271]

Ok, so currently not possible without some coding changes?

[aarnphm]

Not sure if I understand your question, but -ml would just be word_length. Again I think you just have to set the option via the whispercpp.api.Params.

[jake1271]

Oh, I meant, that it would not be possible to pass that param using the gui app as it is now.
One would have to make the coding changes to pass the desired params and then recompile the gui app. Unless I'm not understanding how it works.

[aarnphm]

What GUI app are you referring to?

[jake1271]

Oh, sorry about the confusion! I got the thread mixed up with another project.
But will definitely try this out :)