Support VAD filter (#95)

* Support VAD filter

* Generalize function collect_samples

* Define AudioSegment class

* Only pass prompt and prefix to the first chunk

* Add dict argument vad_parameters

* Fix isort format

* Rename method

* Update README

* Add shortcut when the chunk offset is 0

* Reword readme

* Fix end property

* Concatenate the speech chunks

* Cleanup diff

* Increase default speech pad

* Update README

* Increase default speech pad

faster_whisper/utils.py

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import os
+
 from typing import Optional
 
 import huggingface_hub
@@ -18,6 +20,11 @@ _MODELS = (
 )
 
 
+def get_assets_path():
+    """Returns the path to the assets directory."""
+    return os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)), "assets")
+
+
 def download_model(size: str, output_dir: Optional[str] = None):
     """Downloads a CTranslate2 Whisper model from the Hugging Face Hub.