"""Load a .bark file into a stock transformers ParakeetForTDT and transcribe. Formats "bark-levels-v2" and "bark-levels-v3" (v3 = v2 with LZMA on the small side blobs: levels, scales, fp16 tensors): encoder linear weights: per-row levels (fp16) + one code per weight, entropy coded with ANS (16 column classes per tensor, each with its own symbol model); other matrices: per-row symmetric integers (5 or 6 bits), ANS coded, with fp16 row scales; small tensors: fp16. Decoding is exact: the weights you get are the weights that were evaluated. pip install "transformers>=5.19" torch constriction numpy soundfile soxr python bark_loader.py model.bark recording.wav """ import json import lzma import sys import numpy as np try: import torch except ImportError: # the MLX path (bark_mlx.py) only needs numpy torch = None NC = 16 def _decode_codes(cls, counts, words, rows, cols): import constriction dec = constriction.stream.stack.AnsCoder(words) codes = np.empty((rows, cols), np.uint8) for c in range(len(counts)): idx = np.nonzero(cls == c)[0] model = constriction.stream.model.Categorical(counts[c] / counts[c].sum(), perfect=False) codes[:, idx] = dec.decode(model, rows * len(idx)).reshape(len(idx), rows).T return codes def _levels_to_weights(lev, codes): K = lev.shape[1] lev = lev.astype(np.float32) mag = np.where(codes == 0, 0, np.where(codes <= K, codes, codes - K)).astype(np.int64) val = np.take_along_axis(np.concatenate([np.zeros((lev.shape[0], 1), np.float32), lev], 1), mag, 1) return np.where(codes > K, -val, val) def _unz(b, flag): return lzma.decompress(b) if flag else b def load_state_dict(path, as_numpy=False): """Returns (state_dict, model_config_dict). as_numpy=True skips torch (used by bark_mlx.py).""" import constriction raw = open(path, "rb").read() n = int.from_bytes(raw[:8], "little") head = json.loads(raw[8:8 + n]) assert head["format"] in ("bark-levels-v2", "bark-levels-v3"), head["format"] p = 8 + n sd = {} for e in head["index"]: shape = e["shape"] if e["k"] == "levels2": K, rows, cols = e["K"], shape[0], int(np.prod(shape[1:])) lev = np.frombuffer(_unz(raw[p:p + e["lev"]], e.get("zl")), np.float16).reshape(rows, K); p += e["lev"] meta = raw[p:p + e["meta"]]; p += e["meta"] nb = (cols * 4 + 7) // 8 bits = np.unpackbits(np.frombuffer(meta[:nb], np.uint8))[:cols * 4].reshape(cols, 4) cls = np.packbits(np.concatenate([np.zeros((cols, 4), np.uint8), bits], 1), axis=1)[:, 0] counts = np.frombuffer(meta[nb:], np.uint32).reshape(NC, 2 * K + 1).astype(np.float64) words = np.frombuffer(raw[p:p + e["b"]], np.uint32).copy(); p += e["b"] codes = _decode_codes(cls, counts, words, rows, cols) sd[e["n"]] = _levels_to_weights(lev, codes).reshape(shape) elif e["k"].startswith("ansint"): bits = int(e["k"][6:]) scale = np.frombuffer(_unz(raw[p:p + e["s"]], e.get("zs")), np.float16).astype(np.float32); p += e["s"] counts = np.frombuffer(raw[p:p + e["meta"]], np.uint32).astype(np.float64); p += e["meta"] words = np.frombuffer(raw[p:p + e["b"]], np.uint32).copy(); p += e["b"] model = constriction.stream.model.Categorical(counts / counts.sum(), perfect=False) sym = constriction.stream.stack.AnsCoder(words).decode(model, int(np.prod(shape))) q = (sym - (2 ** (bits - 1) - 1)).astype(np.float32) sd[e["n"]] = (q.reshape(len(scale), -1) * scale[:, None]).reshape(shape) elif e["k"] == "raw": dtype = {"torch.int64": np.int64, "torch.int32": np.int32}.get(e["dtype"], np.float16) sd[e["n"]] = np.frombuffer(_unz(raw[p:p + e["b"]], e.get("zr")), dtype).copy().reshape(shape); p += e["b"] else: raise ValueError(e["k"]) if not as_numpy: sd = {k: torch.from_numpy(v) for k, v in sd.items()} return sd, json.loads(head["config"]) def load_model(path, device="cpu", dtype=None): from transformers import GenerationConfig, ParakeetForTDT, ParakeetTDTConfig sd, cfg = load_state_dict(path) model = ParakeetForTDT(ParakeetTDTConfig.from_dict(cfg)) missing, unexpected = model.load_state_dict({k: v.float() for k, v in sd.items()}, strict=False) assert not unexpected and all("num_batches_tracked" in m for m in missing), (missing[:5], unexpected[:5]) model.generation_config = GenerationConfig.from_pretrained("nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3") return model.eval().to(device=device, dtype=dtype or torch.float32) def transcribe(model, wave, sample_rate=16000, pad_s=0.25): """wave: mono float32 numpy array. pad_s: silence added before the audio (the evaluated setting).""" from transformers import AutoProcessor if sample_rate != 16000: import soxr wave = soxr.resample(wave, sample_rate, 16000) wave = np.concatenate([np.zeros(int(pad_s * 16000), np.float32), wave.astype(np.float32)]) proc = AutoProcessor.from_pretrained("nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v3") dev, dt = next(model.parameters()).device, next(model.parameters()).dtype inp = proc([wave], sampling_rate=16000, return_tensors="pt", padding=True) inp = {k: (v.to(dev, dt) if v.dtype.is_floating_point else v.to(dev)) for k, v in inp.items()} with torch.inference_mode(): out = model.generate(**inp) return proc.batch_decode(out.sequences, skip_special_tokens=True)[0].strip() if __name__ == "__main__": import soundfile as sf model = load_model(sys.argv[1]) wave, sr = sf.read(sys.argv[2], dtype="float32", always_2d=True) print(transcribe(model, wave.mean(1), sr))