Hi, I have a web app in Nuxt 3 and the backend is in Fast API. I tried from all the browser to record and send the audio blob from Nuxt to the Fast API endpoint which is taking in the blob, creates the temp file and feed it to whisper API. Interestingly it works for every browser except Safari on i…

Hi all! We did indeed make a change yesterday to try to support more files as described in this thread. Please let me know if that has helped with things! @omarsultan - sorry to hear about this. I’ve tried out some voice memo files on my end and they all seem to be working - can you give any more d…

Same Issue here - with output recorded directly in Logic Pro.

I have the same issue. Not working only on Safari. Whole component in a gist if somebody would like to take a look. https://gist.github.com/maciekChmura/a1c9cfb45f32b72ea6c2b4a4dcfe898f recorder.tsx import { useState, useRef } from "react"; import { reportError, getErrorMessage } from…

same error on my side. Works on chrome but not on safari recorded audio. any tips? chatgpt4 didnt help hehe.

This is effecting me as well. I can’t figure out how to get the Whisper API to accept the mp4 produced by Safari using the HTML5 MediaRecorder API I am trying to use the MediaRecorder HTML5 API to record audio from the users microphone and then send it to Whisper. The mp4 file that Safari produces…

Thanks all for the comments. I tried all the possible ways but still, it doesn’t work. Tried mp3, wav, mp4 formats, but no luck. Personally, I feel it is an API issue because the audio is recorded and played but when it is sent to Whisper API it doesn’t recognise it.

The work around I am currently using until OpenAI fixes their API endpoint, is to load the MediaRecorder polyfil for Safari only: [image] GitHub - ai/audio-recorder-polyfill: MediaRecorder polyfill to record audio... MediaRecorder polyfill to record audio in Edge and Safari - GitHub - a…

I’ve been fighting with this problem and I think there are some versions of ffmpeg that don’t work well with the aac created by safari. Whatever version is on openai’s server might be the root problem. I suspect this because when I compress files to send to from safari before I send to whisper it …

We’re seeing the same issue. Fix from OpenAI would be ideal. The polyfill looks like the second best solution.

I’m seeing same issue. Hoping it’s fixed on api side. Thank you.

Whisper API cannot read files correctly

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Jako March 20, 2023, 12:55pm 13

I’m also facing the same issue when using the MediaRecorder in Safari with MP4s.

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Whisper API cannot read files correctly

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