Could not find a declaration file for module 'whisper-node'.

[arthurwolf]

Following the instructions in the Readme, I get:

╰─(base) ⠠⠵ ts-node src/process_scenes.ts --node                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               on master↑1|✚16…17
Error preparing scenes: src/lib/Bark.ts:5:32 - error TS7016: Could not find a declaration file for module 'whisper-node'. '/home/arthur/dev/ai/manga/node_modules/whisper-node/dist/index.js' implicitly has an 'any' type.
  Try `npm i --save-dev @types/whisper-node` if it exists or add a new declaration (.d.ts) file containing `declare module 'whisper-node';`

5 import whisper            from 'whisper-node';
                                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I tried npm i --save-dev @types/whisper-node and got nothing more.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

PS: My tsconfig in case it's relevant:

{
  "compilerOptions": {

    "strict": true,
    "noImplicitAny": true,

    "target": "es6",
    "module": "commonjs",
    "moduleResolution": "node",
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "baseUrl": ".",
    "paths": {
      "@/*": ["src/*"]
    },
  }
}

PS: doing:

// @ts-ignore
import whisper            from 'whisper-node';

solves the problem temporarily, but I'd really like a "clean" way out.

then when I am able to run it I have another problem:

/ram/runner/bark-text-reader-2ksgcnjtjt6//example.wav
[whisper-node] Transcribing: /ram/runner/bark-text-reader-2ksgcnjtjt6//example.wav 

[whisper-node] No 'modelName' or 'modelPath' provided. Trying default model: base.en 

[whisper-node] Problem: TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'shift')
    at parseTranscript (/home/arthur/dev/ai/manga/node_modules/whisper-node/src/tsToArray.ts:12:9)
    at /home/arthur/dev/ai/manga/node_modules/whisper-node/src/index.ts:35:46
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at fulfilled (/home/arthur/dev/ai/manga/node_modules/whisper-node/dist/index.js:5:58)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
undefined