feat(voice): add OpenVINO NPU Whisper service

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William Valentin
2026-06-04 13:07:51 -07:00
parent f9ef8b55ac
commit 83d0ced08c
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# start_period: 15s
# retries: 3
# Optional local dependency: whisper.cpp server for audio transcription.
# Start with: docker compose --profile voice up -d whisper-server
whisper-server:
image: ghcr.io/ggml-org/whisper.cpp@sha256:3a39e86d5a0e911086b5cbebc9029cac71b02fbd08e217b775857de1490f55bf
container_name: whisper-server
# One-shot init: download whisper models into the shared volume if missing.
# The base image only ships ggml-base.en.bin; the servers below require:
# - ggml-medium.bin for the CPU server
# - ggml-small.bin for the GPU server (small fits in the limited VRAM left after gemma)
whisper-init:
image: ghcr.io/ggml-org/whisper.cpp@sha256:672650b5e67f9cb86af7ac6e09dea8eac12a024086e1e5c0172fdccf336aba09
container_name: whisper-init
profiles: ["voice", "voice-cpu-backup"]
restart: "no"
volumes:
- whisper-models:/app/models
entrypoint: ["sh", "-c"]
command:
- |
set -e
for m in medium small base; do
if [ -f /app/models/ggml-$$m.bin ]; then
echo "Model ggml-$$m.bin already present, skipping download."
else
echo "Downloading ggml-$$m.bin..."
sh /app/models/download-ggml-model.sh $$m /app/models
fi
done
# 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-gpu build whisper-server-gpu`.
whisper-server-gpu:
image: whisper.cpp:cuda-blackwell
build:
context: ./whisper-cuda-blackwell
dockerfile: Dockerfile
container_name: whisper-server-gpu
restart: unless-stopped
profiles: ["voice"]
profiles: ["voice-gpu"]
ports:
- "18801:8080"
volumes:
- whisper-models:/app/models
# Override image entrypoint so args are passed directly to whisper-server.
entrypoint: ["whisper-server"]
command:
- --model
- /app/models/ggml-base.en.bin
- /app/models/ggml-base.bin
- --host
- 0.0.0.0
- --port
- "8080"
- --convert
- --language
- en
- auto
- --inference-path
- /v1/audio/transcriptions
deploy:
resources:
reservations:
devices:
- driver: nvidia
count: 1
capabilities: [gpu]
depends_on:
whisper-init:
condition: service_completed_successfully
healthcheck:
test:
[
"CMD-SHELL",
"curl -f http://localhost:8080/ >/dev/null 2>&1 || exit 1",
]
interval: 30s
timeout: 5s
start_period: 30s
retries: 3
labels:
agentmon.monitor: "true"
agentmon.role: "voice"
agentmon.port: "18801"
# 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-cpu-backup"]
ports:
- "18811:8080"
volumes:
- whisper-models:/app/models
# Override image entrypoint so args are passed directly to whisper-server.
entrypoint: ["whisper-server"]
command:
- --model
- /app/models/ggml-medium.bin
- --host
- 0.0.0.0
- --port
- "8080"
- --convert
- --language
- auto
- --inference-path
- /v1/audio/transcriptions
depends_on:
whisper-init:
condition: service_completed_successfully
healthcheck:
test:
[
@@ -68,7 +203,7 @@ services:
labels:
agentmon.monitor: "true"
agentmon.role: "voice"
agentmon.port: "18801"
agentmon.port: "18811"
# kokoro TTS
kokoro-tts:
@@ -134,7 +269,7 @@ services:
# Optional local dependency: liteLLM proxy for unified LLM API.
# Start with: docker compose --profile api up -d litellm
litellm:
image: litellm/litellm:v1.82.3-stable.patch.2
image: litellm/litellm:v1.83.7-stable
container_name: litellm
restart: unless-stopped
profiles: ["api"]
@@ -142,7 +277,6 @@ services:
- "18804:4000"
volumes:
- ./litellm-config.yaml:/app/config.yaml:ro
- ./litellm-copilot-tokens:/root/.config/litellm/github_copilot
environment:
- LITELLM_PORT=4000
- LITELLM_DROP_PARAMS=true
@@ -151,7 +285,6 @@ services:
- OPENROUTER_API_KEY=${OPENROUTER_API_KEY:-}
- GEMINI_API_KEY=${GEMINI_API_KEY:-}
- ZAI_API_KEY=${ZAI_API_KEY:-}
- GITHUB_COPILOT_TOKEN_DIR=/root/.config/litellm/github_copilot
- DATABASE_URL=postgresql://litellm:litellm_password@litellm-db:5432/litellm
- LITELLM_MASTER_KEY=${LITELLM_MASTER_KEY:-sk-1234}
- LITELLM_SALT_KEY=${LITELLM_SALT_KEY:-}
@@ -198,7 +331,7 @@ services:
condition: service_healthy
litellm-db:
image: postgres:15-alpine
image: postgres:15.17-alpine
container_name: litellm-db
restart: unless-stopped
profiles: ["api"]
@@ -221,7 +354,7 @@ services:
# Dedicated local n8n instance for agent-oriented workflows.
# Start with: docker compose --profile automation up -d n8n-agent
n8n-agent:
image: docker.n8n.io/n8nio/n8n:2.11.3
image: docker.n8n.io/n8nio/n8n:2.22.1
container_name: n8n-agent
restart: unless-stopped
profiles: ["automation"]
@@ -233,8 +366,8 @@ services:
- N8N_PROTOCOL=http
- N8N_EDITOR_BASE_URL=http://localhost:18808
- WEBHOOK_URL=http://localhost:18808/
- TZ=UTC
- GENERIC_TIMEZONE=UTC
- TZ=America/Los_Angeles
- GENERIC_TIMEZONE=America/Los_Angeles
- N8N_SECURE_COOKIE=false
volumes:
- n8n-agent-data:/home/node/.n8n
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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