Write each sentence as a separate line for the txt output (#101)

* Write each sentence as a separate line for the txt output

Write each sentence as a separate line for the txt output

* Update utils.py

Co-authored-by: EliEron <example@example.com>
Co-authored-by: Jong Wook Kim <jongwook@nyu.edu>

whisper/transcribe.py

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import tqdm
 from .audio import SAMPLE_RATE, N_FRAMES, HOP_LENGTH, pad_or_trim, log_mel_spectrogram
 from .decoding import DecodingOptions, DecodingResult
 from .tokenizer import LANGUAGES, TO_LANGUAGE_CODE, get_tokenizer
-from .utils import exact_div, format_timestamp, optional_int, optional_float, str2bool, write_vtt, write_srt
+from .utils import exact_div, format_timestamp, optional_int, optional_float, str2bool, write_txt, write_vtt, write_srt
 
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from .model import Whisper
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ def cli():
 
         # save TXT
         with open(os.path.join(output_dir, audio_basename + ".txt"), "w", encoding="utf-8") as txt:
-            print(result["text"], file=txt)
+            write_txt(result["segments"], file=txt)
 
         # save VTT
         with open(os.path.join(output_dir, audio_basename + ".vtt"), "w", encoding="utf-8") as vtt:

whisper/utils.py

@@ -44,6 +44,11 @@ def format_timestamp(seconds: float, always_include_hours: bool = False):
     return f"{hours_marker}{minutes:02d}:{seconds:02d}.{milliseconds:03d}"
 
 
+def write_txt(transcript: Iterator[dict], file: TextIO):
+    for segment in transcript:
+        print(segment['text'].strip(), file=file, flush=True)
+
+
 def write_vtt(transcript: Iterator[dict], file: TextIO):
     print("WEBVTT\n", file=file)
     for segment in transcript: