Whisper tokenizer word level timestamps (#32197)

* fix _fix_key in PreTrainedModel

* fix _find_longest_common_sequence

* add test

* remove result.json

* nit

* update test

src/transformers/models/whisper/tokenization_whisper.py

@@ -1174,7 +1174,22 @@ def _find_longest_common_sequence(sequences, token_timestamp_sequences=None):
                     "There is a bug within whisper `decode_asr` function, please report it. Dropping to prevent bad inference."
                 )
 
+            if token_timestamp_sequences:
+                # Get length of longest subsequence of tokens that match
+                # and have timestamps that are in order
+                matches = sum(
+                    1
+                    for idx, elem in enumerate(left)
+                    if (
+                        elem == right[idx]
+                        and left_token_timestamp_sequence[left_start + idx]
+                        <= token_timestamp_sequences[seq_idx + 1][right_start + idx]
+                    )
+                )
+
+            else:
                 matches = np.sum(left == right)
+
             matching = matches / i + eps
             if matches > 1 and matching > max_:
                 max_ = matching

tests/models/whisper/test_tokenization_whisper.py

@@ -338,6 +338,42 @@ class WhisperTokenizerTest(TokenizerTesterMixin, unittest.TestCase):
         )
         self.assertEqual(decoded_output_diacritics, expected_output_diacritics)
 
+    def test_decode_asr_with_word_level_timestamps(self):
+        # fmt: off
+        model_outputs = [
+            {
+                'stride': [10, 0, 5],
+                'tokens': np.array([[ 50257, 50362, 3363, 11, 345, 460, 0, 2329, 466, 340, 0, 50256 ]]),
+                'token_timestamps': np.array([[ 0, 0, 5.18, 5.56, 5.56, 5.84, 6.36, 7.12, 7.54, 7.82, 8.16, 9.48 ]])
+            },
+            {
+                'stride': [10, 5, 0],
+                'tokens': np.array([[ 50257, 50362, 2329, 466, 340, 0, 3363, 345, 460, 0, 2329, 466, 340, 50256 ]]),
+                'token_timestamps': np.array([[ 0, 0, 0, 2.44, 4.3, 5.04, 5.06, 5.56, 5.8, 6.32, 7.12, 7.56, 7.8, 8.72 ]])
+            }
+        ]
+        # fmt: on
+
+        tokenizer = WhisperTokenizer.from_pretrained("onnx-community/whisper-tiny.en_timestamped")
+        result = tokenizer._decode_asr(
+            model_outputs, return_timestamps="word", return_language=False, time_precision=0.02
+        )
+
+        EXPECTED_OUTPUT = (
+            " Yes, you can! Just do it",
+            {
+                "chunks": [
+                    {"text": " Yes,", "timestamp": (5.18, 5.56)},
+                    {"text": " you", "timestamp": (5.56, 5.84)},
+                    {"text": " can!", "timestamp": (5.84, 7.12)},
+                    {"text": " Just", "timestamp": (7.12, 7.56)},
+                    {"text": " do", "timestamp": (7.56, 7.8)},
+                    {"text": " it", "timestamp": (7.8, 8.72)},
+                ]
+            },
+        )
+        self.assertEqual(result, EXPECTED_OUTPUT)
+
 
 class SpeechToTextTokenizerMultilinguialTest(unittest.TestCase):
     checkpoint_name = "openai/whisper-small.en"