ASR CORS settings

[dahifi]

The whisper ASR server does not allow CORS, which has caused issues with testing. We were able to hack it using the following code:

from fastapi import FastAPI
from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware

app = FastAPI()

allowed_origins = [
    "http://localhost:5173",  # Make sure this matches the port your frontend is running on
    "https://yourfrontenddomain.com",  # Replace this with your actual frontend domain
]

app.add_middleware(
    CORSMiddleware,
    allow_origins=allowed_origins,  # List of allowed origins
    allow_credentials=True,
    allow_methods=["*"],  # Allows all methods
    allow_headers=["*"],  # Allows all headers
)

This code was edited directly in the docker and needs to be preserved this in source or CI.

Ideally, we'll fork the asr-whisperX repo and implement our build pipeline there. We should add an env var to specify the allowed origins at runtime and submit a PR back to the upstream.

It might also be worth looking at running whisper x directly .