chore(voice): make NPU Whisper the default

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William Valentin
2026-06-03 17:10:25 -07:00
parent 167a7234e7
commit 7745648a13
10 changed files with 252 additions and 30 deletions
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@@ -137,23 +137,23 @@ api-dedup: ## Remove duplicate LiteLLM model DB entries.
api-logs: ## Follow LiteLLM logs.
$(DC) logs -f --tail="$(LOGS_TAIL)" litellm litellm-db litellm-init
voice-up: ## Start all voice services.
voice-up: ## Start default voice services: NPU Whisper and Kokoro TTS.
$(DC) --profile voice up -d
voice-gpu: ## Start GPU whisper server and Kokoro TTS.
$(DC) --profile voice up -d whisper-server-gpu kokoro-tts
voice-gpu: ## Start manual GPU whisper fallback and Kokoro TTS.
$(DC) --profile voice-gpu --profile voice up -d whisper-server-gpu kokoro-tts
voice-cpu: ## Start CPU whisper server and Kokoro TTS.
$(DC) --profile voice up -d whisper-server kokoro-tts
$(DC) --profile voice-cpu-backup --profile voice up -d whisper-server kokoro-tts
voice-down: ## Stop voice profile services.
$(DC) --profile voice down
$(DC) --profile voice --profile voice-gpu --profile voice-cpu-backup down
voice-build: ## Build the custom Blackwell CUDA whisper image.
$(DC) --profile voice build whisper-server-gpu
$(DC) --profile voice-gpu build whisper-server-gpu
voice-logs: ## Follow voice service logs.
$(DC) logs -f --tail="$(LOGS_TAIL)" whisper-server-gpu whisper-server kokoro-tts
voice-logs: ## Follow default voice service logs.
$(DC) logs -f --tail="$(LOGS_TAIL)" whisper-server-npu kokoro-tts
search-up: ## Start Brave Search MCP and SearXNG.
$(DC) --profile search up -d
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@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ services:
whisper-init:
image: ghcr.io/ggml-org/whisper.cpp@sha256:672650b5e67f9cb86af7ac6e09dea8eac12a024086e1e5c0172fdccf336aba09
container_name: whisper-init
profiles: ["voice"]
profiles: ["voice", "voice-cpu-backup"]
restart: "no"
volumes:
- whisper-models:/app/models
@@ -54,17 +54,15 @@ services:
fi
done
# Primary whisper.cpp server: NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti via CUDA (Blackwell sm_120).
# Uses ggml-base.bin to keep the service alive while llama-server owns most of
# the laptop GPU VRAM. The previous ggml-small.bin profile needed ~465 MiB
# contiguous CUDA memory and restarted when only ~560 MiB fragmented VRAM was
# free. CPU whisper-server below remains the higher-accuracy fallback.
# Manual GPU whisper.cpp fallback: NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti via CUDA (Blackwell sm_120).
# Kept out of the normal `voice` profile because the OpenVINO NPU Whisper
# service is the default and this container consumes GPU resources.
#
# The official `ghcr.io/ggml-org/whisper.cpp:main-cuda` ships kernels only
# for sm_75/80/86/90 and fails to init CUDA on Blackwell. We build a custom
# image with `CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES=120` from the local Dockerfile.
# Build manually with: docker build -t whisper.cpp:cuda-blackwell ./whisper-cuda-blackwell
# Or `docker compose --profile voice build whisper-server-gpu`.
# Or `docker compose --profile voice-gpu build whisper-server-gpu`.
whisper-server-gpu:
image: whisper.cpp:cuda-blackwell
build:
@@ -72,7 +70,7 @@ services:
dockerfile: Dockerfile
container_name: whisper-server-gpu
restart: unless-stopped
profiles: ["voice"]
profiles: ["voice-gpu"]
ports:
- "18801:8080"
volumes:
@@ -115,16 +113,62 @@ services:
agentmon.role: "voice"
agentmon.port: "18801"
# Fallback whisper.cpp server: CPU-only, medium model.
# Kept around for resilience — runs if the GPU server is down (driver issue,
# gemma takes all VRAM, custom image broken, etc.). Uses no GPU resources.
# ~14 s per short clip (medium-on-CPU is 90x slower than small-on-GPU above).
# Start with: docker compose --profile voice up -d whisper-server
# Experimental OpenVINO GenAI Whisper server using the Intel NPU.
# This is not whisper.cpp; it implements the same OpenAI-style
# /v1/audio/transcriptions route using OpenVINO WhisperPipeline on NPU.
# Host requirements: intel-npu-driver-bin installed, /dev/accel/accel0 present,
# and the host NPU Level Zero driver/compiler libraries mounted below.
whisper-server-npu:
image: whisper-openvino-npu:local
build:
context: ./whisper-openvino-npu
dockerfile: Dockerfile
container_name: whisper-server-npu
restart: unless-stopped
profiles: ["voice"]
ports:
- "18816:8080"
devices:
- /dev/accel/accel0:/dev/accel/accel0
group_add:
- "987" # host render group gid on willlaptop
environment:
- WHISPER_DEVICE=NPU
- WHISPER_MODEL_DIR=/models/whisper-tiny-fp16-ov
- LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
- ZE_ENABLE_ALT_DRIVERS=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libze_intel_npu.so.1
volumes:
- /home/will/.cache/openvino-models/whisper-tiny-fp16-ov:/models/whisper-tiny-fp16-ov:ro
- /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libze_intel_npu.so.1.32.1:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libze_intel_npu.so.1.32.1:ro
- /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libze_intel_npu.so.1:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libze_intel_npu.so.1:ro
- /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libze_intel_npu.so:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libze_intel_npu.so:ro
- /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnpu_driver_compiler.so:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnpu_driver_compiler.so:ro
healthcheck:
test:
[
"CMD-SHELL",
"curl -f http://localhost:8080/health >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 1",
]
interval: 30s
timeout: 5s
start_period: 30s
retries: 3
labels:
agentmon.monitor: "true"
agentmon.role: "voice"
agentmon.port: "18816"
# Manual fallback whisper.cpp server: CPU-only, medium model.
# Kept around for resilience — runs if the NPU/GPU servers are down. Uses no
# accelerator resources, but is slow (~14 s per short clip).
# Disabled from the normal `voice` profile now that `whisper-server-npu` is
# the trial default. Start manually with:
# docker compose --profile voice-cpu-backup up -d whisper-server
whisper-server:
image: ghcr.io/ggml-org/whisper.cpp@sha256:672650b5e67f9cb86af7ac6e09dea8eac12a024086e1e5c0172fdccf336aba09
container_name: whisper-server
restart: unless-stopped
profiles: ["voice"]
profiles: ["voice-cpu-backup"]
ports:
- "18811:8080"
volumes:
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@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@
<!-- Local services -->
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@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ local AI/search/voice services
+--> llama.cpp :18806
+--> Ollama embeddings :18807
+--> Kokoro TTS :18805
+--> Whisper :18811
+--> Whisper NPU :18816
```
See also:
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ Docker services:
- `searxng``:18803`, local metasearch
- `brave-search``:18802`, Brave Search MCP server
- `kokoro-tts``:18805`, local TTS
- `whisper-server``:18811`, local transcription
- `whisper-server-npu``:18816`, OpenVINO NPU local transcription
- `n8n-agent``:18808`, automation
Host/user services:
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ CONTAINERS = [
"litellm-db",
"n8n-agent",
"searxng",
"whisper-server",
"whisper-server-npu",
]
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@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ AUDIO_DIR = os.path.join(tempfile.gettempdir(), "voice-memo-audio")
os.makedirs(AUDIO_DIR, exist_ok=True)
# Service endpoints (from host perspective)
WHISPER_URL = os.environ.get("WHISPER_URL", "http://127.0.0.1:18811/v1/audio/transcriptions")
WHISPER_URL = os.environ.get("WHISPER_URL", "http://127.0.0.1:18816/v1/audio/transcriptions")
LLM_URL = os.environ.get("LLM_URL", "http://127.0.0.1:18806/v1/chat/completions")
KOKORO_URL = os.environ.get("KOKORO_URL", "http://127.0.0.1:18805/v1/audio/speech")
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@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from http.server import HTTPServer, BaseHTTPRequestHandler
from pathlib import Path
PORT = int(os.environ.get("VOICE_MEMO_PORT", "18813"))
WHISPER_URL = os.environ.get("WHISPER_BASE_URL", "http://127.0.0.1:18811")
WHISPER_URL = os.environ.get("WHISPER_BASE_URL", "http://127.0.0.1:18816")
LLM_URL = os.environ.get("LLAMA_CPP_BASE_URL", "http://127.0.0.1:18806")
KOKORO_URL = os.environ.get("KOKORO_BASE_URL", "http://127.0.0.1:18805")
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN = os.environ.get("TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN", "")
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FROM python:3.14-slim
ENV PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 \
PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 \
PIP_NO_CACHE_DIR=1 \
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \
ZE_ENABLE_ALT_DRIVERS=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libze_intel_npu.so.1
RUN apt-get update \
&& DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
ffmpeg libze1 ca-certificates curl \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
RUN python -m pip install --upgrade pip \
&& python -m pip install \
fastapi==0.126.0 \
uvicorn[standard]==0.38.0 \
python-multipart==0.0.22 \
openvino==2026.2.0 \
openvino-genai==2026.2.0.0 \
soundfile==0.13.1 \
numpy==2.4.6
WORKDIR /app
COPY server.py /app/server.py
EXPOSE 8080
HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=5s --start-period=30s --retries=3 \
CMD curl -fsS http://localhost:8080/health >/dev/null || exit 1
CMD ["uvicorn", "server:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "8080"]
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import os
import subprocess
import tempfile
import threading
import time
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Optional
import numpy as np
import openvino as ov
import openvino_genai as ov_genai
import soundfile as sf
from fastapi import FastAPI, File, Form, UploadFile
from fastapi.responses import JSONResponse, PlainTextResponse
MODEL_DIR = Path(os.environ.get("WHISPER_MODEL_DIR", "/models/whisper-tiny-fp16-ov"))
DEVICE = os.environ.get("WHISPER_DEVICE", "NPU")
BUSY_PATH = Path("/sys/class/accel/accel0/device/npu_busy_time_us")
app = FastAPI(title="OpenVINO NPU Whisper server", version="0.1.0")
_lock = threading.Lock()
_pipe = None
_core = None
def busy_us() -> Optional[int]:
try:
return int(BUSY_PATH.read_text().strip())
except Exception:
return None
def get_core():
global _core
if _core is None:
_core = ov.Core()
return _core
def get_pipe():
global _pipe
if _pipe is None:
_pipe = ov_genai.WhisperPipeline(str(MODEL_DIR), DEVICE)
return _pipe
def load_audio(upload_path: Path) -> tuple[np.ndarray, int]:
"""Decode arbitrary uploaded audio to mono 16 kHz float32 using ffmpeg + soundfile."""
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=".wav", delete=False) as wav:
wav_path = Path(wav.name)
try:
subprocess.run(
[
"ffmpeg",
"-nostdin",
"-hide_banner",
"-loglevel",
"error",
"-y",
"-i",
str(upload_path),
"-ac",
"1",
"-ar",
"16000",
"-f",
"wav",
str(wav_path),
],
check=True,
)
audio, sr = sf.read(wav_path, dtype="float32")
if audio.ndim > 1:
audio = audio.mean(axis=1)
return audio, int(sr)
finally:
try:
wav_path.unlink()
except FileNotFoundError:
pass
@app.get("/")
def root():
return PlainTextResponse("OpenVINO NPU Whisper server\n")
@app.get("/health")
def health():
try:
core = get_core()
devices = core.available_devices
npu_name = core.get_property("NPU", "FULL_DEVICE_NAME") if "NPU" in devices else None
return {
"ok": "NPU" in devices,
"device": DEVICE,
"devices": devices,
"npu": npu_name,
"model_dir": str(MODEL_DIR),
"model_exists": MODEL_DIR.exists(),
"npu_busy_time_us": busy_us(),
}
except Exception as e:
return JSONResponse(status_code=500, content={"ok": False, "error": f"{type(e).__name__}: {e}"})
@app.post("/v1/audio/transcriptions")
async def transcriptions(
file: UploadFile = File(...),
model: Optional[str] = Form(default=None),
language: Optional[str] = Form(default=None),
response_format: Optional[str] = Form(default="json"),
):
suffix = Path(file.filename or "audio").suffix or ".audio"
with tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=suffix, delete=False) as tmp:
upload_path = Path(tmp.name)
tmp.write(await file.read())
before = busy_us()
t0 = time.perf_counter()
try:
audio, sr = load_audio(upload_path)
# OpenVINO GenAI WhisperPipeline appears stateful for Whisper generation on
# this stack: reusing one pipeline produced unstable language detection on
# repeated short clips. Recreate per request for correctness; OpenVINO's
# compiled-cache path keeps warm init reasonably fast.
with _lock:
pipe = ov_genai.WhisperPipeline(str(MODEL_DIR), DEVICE)
result = pipe.generate(audio)
text = str(result).strip()
elapsed = time.perf_counter() - t0
after = busy_us()
if response_format == "text":
return PlainTextResponse(text)
return {
"text": text,
"duration_seconds": round(elapsed, 4),
"sample_rate": sr,
"device": DEVICE,
"model": model or MODEL_DIR.name,
"npu_busy_delta_us": None if before is None or after is None else after - before,
}
finally:
try:
upload_path.unlink()
except FileNotFoundError:
pass