Whisper error 400 "Unrecognized file format."

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Initially, I was doing this:

 const file = await toFile(Buffer.from(data));

Somehow, I managed to make it work without the library, and then I asked myself: WHY?!

Here is the reason:

 const file = await toFile(Buffer.from(data), 'audio.mp3');

This worked for both the node.js library and a pure fetch request.

I’m not really sure why, but I believe it has to do with the “name” inference in the “toFile()” method:

@param name — the name of the file. If omitted, toFile will try to determine a file name from bits if possible.

Note it says Try…

When I manually added the name and type, it worked properly. However, when I removed it, I started getting nonstop errors.

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