From Voice to Text

Discord (Legcord)
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PipeWire graph
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discord_sink (virtual null sink)
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discord_sink.monitor (loopback source)
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whisper_mic (remap-source, mono, 16kHz)
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ffmpeg
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audio.wav (growing file)
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whisper-stream

On the device used for transcription, a Discord client (Legcord) is running and joins the session's Discord voice channel. SystemLegcord's soundaudio output is fedmoved by pipewire intoto a virtual null sink (named discord_sink) andvia aPipeWire. The sink's loopback source (called discord_sink.monitor), is remapped by whisper_mic and fed into toffmpeg.

ffmpeg.

Whisper-stream uses the wav file created by ffmpeg to create the transcript.

Using a minimal language model (tiny.en), the voice input is transcribed with a delay of 5 to 10 seconds.