About balance debiting time when cancelling Deepgram JS SDK fetch requests

[slender heron]

🪙 Hello, I am developing a subtitles generation plugin for Adobe Premiere relying on the Deepgram JS SDK (proxy and client). Since transcribing a video mp3 file's speech to text can take some time, I would like to allow my plugin end-users to cancel a Deepgram "listen"' request if they change their mind during the process. This would be done in JS using a custom fetch(), the .signal attribute and an AbortController; an ongoing PR to the JS SDK allows this on github.com (https://github.com/deepgram/deepgram-js-sdk/pull/245) . My deeper question is: When does Deepgram start to debit the project's balance? When is it too late to cancel a request? Note: I am using the v1/listen endpoint using the binary file upload method, not the remote URL method.

[eternal swallow]

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[candid vault]

I believe an abort signal might not stop the audio generation, it would just orphan the data. I will double check for you though

I have made a promise to review and merge an experimental config for custom fetch early next week 🤞

But, I probably should also be exposing the abort from the built-in fetch. I will make a note

[slender heron]

Hi @candid vault , thank you for understanding the need completely.
For now in my plugin, I will just prompt the user to confirm whether he/she is OK to possibly loose the committed credit for this job.
Regarding the PR, for my case, being able to pass a "signal" option to the default fetch would be simpler than passing a custom fetch. But I can use whatever possibility ends up in the main Git tree.

[candid vault]

Almost certainly I'll arrange for the PR to get merged first and then think about a permanent solution to AbortSignal and a custom fetch solution sooner

[slender heron]

Perfect, a custom fetch injection ability will already be great and sufficient for me.

Btw, if you guys at Deepgram were curious to see our early version of the Premiere plugin working with the Deepgram Whisper & Deepgram models, we can show that to you. I would like to have it released by the end of April, but we can already demonstrate.