From b8d3f54a01bb1023ef05d7c151ee48f0974abee3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: UsernamesLame <156965854+UsernamesLame@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 13:41:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Removed uncessary channel crushing

Calling ```set_channels(1) already converts the audio to one channel, so there was no need to call ```split_to_mono```, instead we can just call ```get_array_of_samples```

This should have a negligible positive impact on performance
---
 pywhispercpp/model.py | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/pywhispercpp/model.py b/pywhispercpp/model.py
index 882b7e3..be73b94 100644
--- a/pywhispercpp/model.py
+++ b/pywhispercpp/model.py
@@ -272,9 +272,7 @@ def _load_audio(media_file_path: str) -> np.array:
         """
         sound = AudioSegment.from_file(media_file_path)
         sound = sound.set_frame_rate(constants.WHISPER_SAMPLE_RATE).set_channels(1)
-        channel_sounds = sound.split_to_mono()
-        samples = [s.get_array_of_samples() for s in channel_sounds]
-        arr = np.array(samples).T.astype(np.float32)
+        arr = np.array(sound.get_array_of_samples()).T.astype(np.float32)
         arr /= np.iinfo(samples[0].typecode).max
         return arr