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Speech: the one ASR attempt died on a missing DLL
On 23 July 2026 a two-pass faster-whisper job was run on six audio slices from a VOA bulletin. The progress log stops at "transcribing, language am". The error log ends with a missing CUDA library. Zero Amharic ASR output exists anywhere in the programme.
On 23 July 2026 a two-pass faster-whisper job (transcribe in Amharic, then translate to English, beam size 5, voice activity detection on) was run on six audio slices from a VOA bulletin, with six extracted video frames and a contact sheet beside them.
The progress log stops at "transcribing, language am". The error log ends:
RuntimeError: Library cublas64_12.dll is not found or cannot be loaded
The model had already been downgraded from large-v3 to medium, and the model cache ran in degraded mode because the machine did not support symlinks.
× What it broke
Zero Amharic ASR output exists anywhere in the programme. The attempt was not repeated.
✓ What it established
The script was already honest about what it would have produced: its markdown templates carry a fixed notice that the output is an automated program transcript, not a VOA-supplied one. That labelling rule survives in the evidence model.
ethiopia-program/staging/quarantine/youtube-channels/ · 2026-07-23 · build report §4.10 · retrieved 2026-08-21
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