Hi team, been using the inference endpoint for whisper for months at https://api-inference.huggingface.co/models/openai/whisper-large-v3-turbo . Today, all of a sudden, the API started throwing this error 'You have passed more than 3000 mel input features (> 30 seconds) which automatically enables l…

Inference API error with Whisper, return_timestamps parameter

mahmutc April 12, 2025, 6:50am 3

The issue is related to file length. WAV files longer than 30 seconds trigger the error.

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