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- Add 'zh-yue' to _VALID_LANGUAGES and available_languages dict - Add Cantonese option to UI language dropdown (displays as '🇭🇰 粵語 (Cantonese)') - Pass language='zh-yue' to faster-whisper for Cantonese transcription - Add Cantonese initial_prompt for better traditional Chinese character output - Add Cantonese filler word removal (嗯, 啊, 呀, etc.) - Add zh-yue to all _LANG_FLAGS maps with 🇭🇰 flag - Whisper large-v3 or medium model recommended for best Cantonese results
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Summary
Adds Cantonese (粵語) as a selectable language in VoxFlow, using Whisper's built-in
zh-yuelanguage code for native Cantonese speech recognition.Changes
voxflow/config.pyzh-yueto_VALID_LANGUAGESandavailable_languagesdictvoxflow/app.pyzh-yueto language dropdown; add 🇭🇰 flag to all_LANG_FLAGSmapsvoxflow/transcriber.pyzh-yuevoxflow/post_processor.pyCANTONESE_INITIAL_PROMPT(biases Whisper toward traditional Chinese chars); add Cantonese filler removalHow it works
transcriber.pypasseslanguage="zh-yue"directly tofaster-whisperlarge-v3ormediummodel is recommended for best Cantonese results (traditional Chinese characters, 粵語 vocabulary)No structural changes
The implementation is purely additive — all existing languages and functionality are preserved. The
faster-whisperlibrary already natively supportszh-yue, so no model changes are required.