From 91d56d23c198cb68fe4f9c9f5c19c70c4a5f1c15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jong Wook Kim <jongwook@openai.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:54:05 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] use stdout for printing transcription progress (#867)

---
 whisper/transcribe.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/whisper/transcribe.py b/whisper/transcribe.py
index a8dc3ebe2..5f160a218 100644
--- a/whisper/transcribe.py
+++ b/whisper/transcribe.py
@@ -171,7 +171,8 @@ def add_segment(
             line = f"[{format_timestamp(start)} --> {format_timestamp(end)}] {text}\n"
             # compared to just `print(line)`, this replaces any character not representable using
             # the system default encoding with an '?', avoiding UnicodeEncodeError.
-            sys.stderr.buffer.write(line.encode(sys.getdefaultencoding(), errors="replace"))
+            sys.stdout.buffer.write(line.encode(sys.getdefaultencoding(), errors="replace"))
+            sys.stdout.flush()
 
     # show the progress bar when verbose is False (otherwise the transcribed text will be printed)
     num_frames = mel.shape[-1]