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Cargo feature matrix architecture-map-page 03-audio-transcription 2026/05/09

Cargo feature matrix

Where you are: Architecture mapAudio + Transcription → Cargo features

Plain English summary. magnotia-audio has no Cargo features. magnotia-transcription has two: whisper (default on, gates whisper-rs, whisper_rs_backend.rs, and load_whisper) and whisper-vulkan (default on, additive Vulkan GPU offload). Parakeet is unconditional. The defaults give a desktop GPU build; non-Vulkan or cloud-only configurations turn features off explicitly.

At a glance

  • Crate file: crates/transcription/Cargo.toml
  • Source of [features]: crates/transcription/Cargo.toml:8-21.
  • Source of conditionals in code: #[cfg(feature = "whisper")] in crates/transcription/src/lib.rs:6 and :10, plus the gated pub mod whisper_rs_backend; and load_whisper re-export. Vulkan check inside WhisperRsBackend::transcribe_sync (crates/transcription/src/whisper_rs_backend.rs:82).

Feature table

Feature Default Pulls in Gates
whisper yes whisper-rs 0.16 (optional dep) whisper_rs_backend module, load_whisper re-export, the set_initial_prompt path
whisper-vulkan yes whisper-rs?/vulkan Compile-time GPU offload. Runtime gated additionally on vulkan_loader_available()

Other deps are unconditional (always present): transcribe-rs 0.3 (Parakeet), magnotia-core, tokio, reqwest, futures-util, sha2, thiserror, tracing. Dev-only: tempfile, num_cpus (used by thread_sweep.rs to label physical vs logical core counts).

Build commands

Default (Whisper + Vulkan):

cargo build -p magnotia-transcription

Whisper without Vulkan (CPU-only desktop, Android without GPU drivers):

cargo build -p magnotia-transcription --no-default-features --features whisper

No Whisper at all (Parakeet only — useful for shrinking the binary and dropping whisper-rs-sys):

cargo build -p magnotia-transcription --no-default-features

The --no-default-features form drops the whisper_rs_backend module entirely, so any sibling code holding a WhisperRsBackend will fail to compile. LocalEngine, SpeechModelAdapter, load_parakeet, and the streaming primitives stay available.

Rationale (from Cargo.toml comments)

  • whisper exists as a feature so a future Windows non-AVX2 build, or a cloud-only ASR config, can drop whisper-rs-sys entirely (brief item #13). Disabling it also drops the WhisperRsBackend module and the load_whisper entry point.
  • whisper-vulkan is a separate feature so a non-Vulkan target (Android without GPU drivers, a CPU-only Windows build) can pull in whisper-rs but skip the Vulkan backend.
  • transcribe-rs is unconditional because today's only second engine (Parakeet) goes through it. Brief item #13's hypothetical "drop both engines" case would need a second feature flag introduced here.

Watch-outs

  • whisper-vulkan is purely additive. Disabling it does not change whisper's default build except for skipping the Vulkan backend selection. There is no separate "force CPU" or "force GPU" runtime flag; the backend probes vulkan_loader_available() and uses Vulkan if present.
  • thiserror and tracing are not feature-gated. Comments justify keeping them unconditional (small cost, broad usage).
  • Reqwest features are pinned. default-features = false, features = ["rustls-tls", "stream"]. There is no native-tls fallback path; --features reqwest/native-tls would rebuild the dep with the wrong TLS backend on Linux.
  • whisper-rs is default-features = false, optional = true. Whisper-rs's own default features can re-enable backends we don't want; setting default-features = false keeps the dep minimal and lets whisper-vulkan add the one feature we care about.
  • Switching feature sets between builds invalidates the build cache. A common slow-down for first-time contributors switching --no-default-features builds.

See also