[Feature]: will whisper add language detection?

[xiayq1]

🚀 The feature, motivation and pitch

Seems it can only do transcription task:

It's my request:
with open(audio_path, "rb") as audio_file:
transcription = client.audio.transcriptions.create(
file=audio_file,
model="whisper-large-v3-turbo",
# language="en",
# response_format="text",
# temperature=0.0
)
print("transcription result:", transcription)

it outputs:
transcription result: {"text":" you"}

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[xiayq1]

oh, I see TODO here: https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/blob/main/vllm/entrypoints/openai/serving_transcription.py#L176

May I ask what your plans are and approximately when you expect to complete this TODO?

[Ashitaka06]

related #13465

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[andrePankraz]

For many of us running Whisper with vLLM in multilingual, production-grade settings, built-in language detection is the last missing piece.

Without it, we have to bolt on external detectors, which adds latency and operational overhead and makes the otherwise excellent Whisper integration hard to ship at scale.