[Deprecated]

[mru4913]

This is a follow-up to the Whisper transcription API endpoint, contributed by @DarkLight1337 and @NickLucche ([#12909], [#13301]).

The previous code restricted the use of audio with unknown languages, forcing it to be recognized as English. This update, adapted from the transformers library, introduces language detection. This is a temporary fix to support audio with unknown languages; a more robust and general solution will be implemented in the future.

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