[HolgerHuo]

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[boxerab]

thanks, exposing vad on the rest endpoint is useful. two things change behaviour for existing callers though:

• condition_on_previous_text now defaults to False. WhisperModel.transcribe defaults it to True and the endpoint never overrode it, so every request that doesn't send the field would decode differently.
• the vad defaults (0.6 / 500 / 800 / 200) don't match faster-whisper's VadOptions (0.5 / 0 / 2000 / 400) or the websocket path ({"threshold": 0.5}).

could you default the new fields to None and only pass the ones the client set? then the defaults stay in faster-whisper.

smaller:

• the same kwargs are built twice, one dict passed to both paths would fix that and also lets the streaming path pick up hotwords, which it drops today.
• vad_filter is passed to _stream_transcription by position, please pass it by name like the rest.
• please add a line to the readme next to the hotwords rest field, and a test that the form fields reach transcriber.transcribe and that a request without them keeps the current arguments.