fix --direct-english-translation not setting task=translate for localagreement backends

the flag was only used for tokenizer language selection but never
actually passed to whisper/faster-whisper transcribe calls. also init
OpenaiApiASR.task and read from transcribe_kargs.

fixes #306

whisperlivekit/local_agreement/backends.py

@@ -249,6 +249,7 @@ class OpenaiApiASR(ASRBase):
         self.load_model()
         self.use_vad_opt = False
         self.direct_english_translation = False
+        self.task = "transcribe"
 
     def load_model(self, *args, **kwargs):
         from openai import OpenAI
@@ -294,7 +295,8 @@ class OpenaiApiASR(ASRBase):
             params["language"] = self.original_language
         if prompt:
             params["prompt"] = prompt
-        proc = self.client.audio.translations if self.task == "translate" else self.client.audio.transcriptions
+        task = self.transcribe_kargs.get("task", self.task)
+        proc = self.client.audio.translations if task == "translate" else self.client.audio.transcriptions
         transcript = proc.create(**params)
         logger.debug(f"OpenAI API processed accumulated {self.transcribed_seconds} seconds")
         return transcript

whisperlivekit/local_agreement/whisper_online.py

@@ -146,6 +146,7 @@ def backend_factory(
 
     if direct_english_translation:
         tgt_language = "en"  # Whisper translates into English
+        asr.transcribe_kargs["task"] = "translate"
     else:
         tgt_language = lan  # Whisper transcribes in this language
 
@@ -154,9 +155,9 @@ def backend_factory(
         tokenizer = create_tokenizer(tgt_language)
     else:
         tokenizer = None
-    
+
     warmup_asr(asr, warmup_file)
-    
+
     asr.confidence_validation = confidence_validation
     asr.tokenizer = tokenizer
     asr.buffer_trimming = buffer_trimming