ggml-org/whisper.cpp

Each sentence has a leading space when outputting to .txt file

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#587 opened on Mar 9, 2023

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Description

What's wrong: Each line has a prepended space before the line begins.

What I want: I want each line to begin with no extra spaces.

Supporting details: Here's what I see in my resulting text file. Note the leading space on each line:

Do you have any comments? I think it's really funny, and we probably still do similar things today. I don't actually remember this particular event, but... I think I was in that one. But yeah, it's really funny, and I think it's funny because you did, or Jeffrey did things like that while we were there. I remember he licked someone's toast before giving it to them. I think that was mine. Yeah, and we thought it was really gross, but yeah. I... [silence] [background noise]

holly_responds.mp3.wav.txt

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Research direction
Inspect the text file output logic in whisper.cpp, specifically the function that writes transcribed segments to a file. Look for any addition of a leading space before each line, possibly from a formatting string or log function.
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ccpp
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backendcli
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C++ compilation
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