How do I check if a model is loaded or not and if an audio file has been loaded or not/is a valid mp3?

[shahjacobb]

I'm basically interested in communicating useful information to the console. If the model is loaded, print that to the console, if an mp3 file is found and loaded for transcription, print that to the console, etc. And if there's issues with both, also send that also to the console.

How can I do that? Is there a python module that lets me do this?

import whisper

model = whisper.load_model("base")
result = model.transcribe("audio.mp3")
print(result["text"])

or with faster-whisper

from faster_whisper import WhisperModel

model_size = "tiny"
model = WhisperModel(model_size, device="cpu", compute_type="int8")

segments, info = model.transcribe("chat_session_with_young_girl.mp3")
for segment in segments:
    print(f'{segment.start} - {segment.end}: {segment.text}')