From 2351f590b517c2e839ab356a73f6cf5e2056c8ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ztimson <zaktimson@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2025 09:27:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Removed ASR file intermediary

---
 package.json |  2 +-
 src/ai.ts    | 29 +++++++++++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 2ef5b86..6c47482 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
 	"name": "@ztimson/ai-utils",
-	"version": "0.1.13",
+	"version": "0.1.14",
 	"description": "AI Utility library",
 	"author": "Zak Timson",
 	"license": "MIT",
diff --git a/src/ai.ts b/src/ai.ts
index ba4160d..6934e2e 100644
--- a/src/ai.ts
+++ b/src/ai.ts
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-import {$} from '@ztimson/node-utils';
 import {createWorker} from 'tesseract.js';
 import {LLM, LLMOptions} from './llm';
 import fs from 'node:fs/promises';
 import Path from 'node:path';
 import * as tf from '@tensorflow/tfjs';
+import {spawn} from 'node:child_process';
 
 export type AiOptions = LLMOptions & {
 	whisper?: {
@@ -13,8 +13,6 @@ export type AiOptions = LLMOptions & {
 		model: string;
 		/** Path to models */
 		path: string;
-		/** Path to storage location for temporary files */
-		temp?: string;
 	}
 }
 
@@ -40,16 +38,23 @@ export class Ai {
 	 * @param model Whisper model
 	 * @returns {Promise<any>} Extracted text
 	 */
-	async asr(path: string, model: string = this.whisperModel): Promise<string | null> {
+	asr(path: string, model: string = this.whisperModel): {abort: () => void, response: Promise<string | null>} {
 		if(!this.options.whisper?.binary) throw new Error('Whisper not configured');
-		const m = await this.downloadAsrModel(model);
-		const name = Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 10) + '-' + path.split('/').pop() + '.txt';
-		const output = Path.join(this.options.whisper.temp || '/tmp', name);
-		console.log('ASR: ' + this.options.whisper.model + ' -> ' + this.whisperModel);
-		console.log(`rm -f ${output} && ${this.options.whisper.binary} -nt -np -m ${m} -f ${path} -otxt -of ${output}`);
-		await $`rm -f ${output} && ${this.options.whisper.binary} -nt -np -m ${m} -f ${path} -otxt -of ${output}`;
-		return fs.readFile(output, 'utf-8').then(text => text?.trim() || null)
-			.finally(() => fs.rm(output, {force: true}).catch(() => {}));
+		let abort: any = () => {};
+		const response = new Promise<string | null>((resolve, reject) => {
+			this.downloadAsrModel(model).then(m => {
+				let output = '';
+				const proc = spawn(<string>this.options.whisper?.binary, ['-nt', '-np', '-m', m, '-f', path], {stdio: ['ignore', 'pipe', 'ignore']});
+				abort = () => proc.kill('SIGTERM');
+				proc.on('error', (err: Error) => reject(err));
+				proc.stdout.on('data', (data: Buffer) => output += data.toString());
+				proc.on('close', (code: number) => {
+					if(code === 0) resolve(output.trim() || null);
+					else reject(new Error(`Exit code ${code}`));
+				});
+			});
+		});
+		return {response, abort};
 	}
 
 	/**