Starting today, I haven't been able to run "from whisper.utils import write_vtt" - any ideas why?

[runshouse]

The error I'm getting is:

ImportError: cannot import name 'write_vtt' from 'whisper.utils' (/usr/local/lib/python3.8/dist-packages/whisper/utils.py)

[runshouse]

Never mind I found the answer here #880

[sovdevs]

from whisper.utils import write_srt
ImportError: cannot import name 'write_srt' from 'whisper.utils' (/../python/lib/python3.11/site-packages/whisper/utils.py)

The suggested fix is to pip install just
openai-whisper==20230117
which installs its own whisper?

I am using
openai-whisper @ git+https://github.com/openai/whisper.git@b91c907694f96a3fb9da03d4bbdc83fbcd3a40a4
can import locally but not when deployed.

[glangford]

@sovdevs It looks like you are installing from the latest commit, and write_srt has been removed in a refactoring. See the discussion here

• Is the write_srt no longer available? #1289