More robust model location autodetection? about vosk-cli HOT 1 OPEN

• What is the canonical place to put models? Do the docs give a recommendation?

nshmyrev commented on Apr 29, 2022
Like I wrote before we need to look for models in 3 places: /usr/share/vosk, /home/user/.cache/vosk, os.env('VOSK_MODEL_PATH').

MODEL_DIRS = [os.getenv("VOSK_MODEL_PATH"), Path("/usr/share/vosk"),
        Path.home() / "AppData/Local/vosk", Path.home() / ".cache/vosk"]

https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/blob/4c720974788cfe3b985b2bf228899cba265afde4/python/vosk/__init__.py#L18-L19

    def get_model_by_name(self, model_name):
        for directory in MODEL_DIRS:

https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/blob/4c720974788cfe3b985b2bf228899cba265afde4/python/vosk/__init__.py#L72-L73

    def get_model_by_lang(self, lang):
        for directory in MODEL_DIRS:

https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/blob/4c720974788cfe3b985b2bf228899cba265afde4/python/vosk/__init__.py#L89-L90

…Or, actually, since it looks like class vosk.Model() already includes search path logic anyway, why does vosk-cli implement its own model_path() resolution order?

from vosk-cli.