slim bazarr subgen

slim bazarr subgen uses Whisper AI models to automatically create subtitles for your media files in Bazarr.

It is simply a slimmed down version of McCloudS’ subgen (thank you for making your code available!) which never worked for me without ugly hacks.

I did this because I wanted subtitles for a TV show this evening and McCloudS/subgen (again) would suddenly not start for whatever reason, and I didn’t care anymore to find out why.

Note	slim bazarr subgen only includes functionality required for Bazarr subtitle generation

The idea is to have a reliable subtitle service on a much smaller code base which makes it easier to maintain, extend and use.

Design decisions

• caches and models go to /tmp (RAM)

• remove everything not needed for Bazarr

• less is more

Assumptions

• you use Docker

• you have an Nvidia GPU and nvidia-container-toolkit (but works with CPU as well)

• you have a proper amount of RAM reserved for tmpfs in /tmp

Alternatives

You might like those better:

• McCloudS/subgen

• ahmetoner/whisper-asr-webservice

Run

docker-compose up --build; docker-compose down --remove-orphans

Configuration

Look at docker-compose.yml for limited configuration options.

Look here for available models: https://github.com/openai/whisper/blob/main/README.md#available-models-and-languages

Bazarr

How to configure Bazarr to use Whisper AI subtitle creation: https://wiki.bazarr.media/Additional-Configuration/Whisper-Provider/

Important

Default port is 8090