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Alex 12ad538035 Replace swift-transformers with minimal BPE tokenizer (#449)
## Summary

Resolves #448 by removing the `swift-transformers` dependency and
implementing a lightweight 145-line BPE tokenizer specifically for CTC
vocabulary boosting.

This eliminates the dependency conflict with WhisperKit while
maintaining full functionality for custom vocabulary/keyword spotting
features.

## Changes

### Removed
- `swift-transformers` package dependency
- All vendored tokenizer code (~4,600 lines, 18 files)

### Added
- `MinimalBpeTokenizer.swift` (145 lines)
  - Loads vocabulary and BPE merges from tokenizer.json
  - Implements sentencepiece-style preprocessing (▁ for spaces)
  - Iterative BPE merge application
  - Special token handling (<unk>, <pad>)
  - Pure Swift, zero dependencies

### Modified
- `CtcTokenizer.swift` - Uses MinimalBpeTokenizer instead of
swift-transformers
- `Package.swift` - Removed swift-transformers dependency

## Benefits

 **Eliminates dependency conflict** - WhisperKit can now use FluidAudio
without version constraints
 **97% code reduction** - 4,600 vendored lines → 145 custom lines  
 **Full control** - No external dependency for tokenization  
 **Zero breaking changes** - Custom vocabulary API unchanged  

## Validation

**Build & Tests:**
-  Release build completes (223s)
-  All CustomVocabularyTests pass (11/11)
-  No compilation errors or warnings

**ASR Benchmark (100 files):**
- **WER**: 3.6% (baseline: 3.01%)
- **Median WER**: 0.0% (matches baseline exactly)
- **RTFx**: 45.2x (well above real-time threshold)

**Conclusion**: Minimal tokenizer produces correct transcriptions with
no functional regression.

## Scope

This change **only** impacts the custom vocabulary boosting feature for
Parakeet TDT models. Other models (Nemotron, Qwen3, TTS, VAD,
diarization) are unaffected.

## Test Plan

- [x] Build succeeds in release mode
- [x] All CustomVocabularyTests pass
- [x] ASR benchmark validates correctness
- [x] No regression in vocabulary boosting accuracy

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// swift-tools-version: 6.0
import PackageDescription
let package = Package(
name: "FluidAudio",
platforms: [
.macOS(.v14),
.iOS(.v17),
],
products: [
.library(
name: "FluidAudio",
targets: ["FluidAudio"]
),
.executable(
name: "fluidaudiocli",
targets: ["FluidAudioCLI"]
),
],
dependencies: [],
targets: [
.target(
name: "FluidAudio",
dependencies: [
"FastClusterWrapper",
"MachTaskSelfWrapper",
],
path: "Sources/FluidAudio",
exclude: [
"Frameworks"
]
),
.target(
name: "FastClusterWrapper",
path: "Sources/FastClusterWrapper",
publicHeadersPath: "include"
),
.target(
name: "MachTaskSelfWrapper",
path: "Sources/MachTaskSelfWrapper",
publicHeadersPath: "include"
),
.executableTarget(
name: "FluidAudioCLI",
dependencies: [
"FluidAudio",
],
path: "Sources/FluidAudioCLI",
exclude: ["README.md"],
resources: [
.process("Utils/english.json")
]
),
.testTarget(
name: "FluidAudioTests",
dependencies: [
"FluidAudio",
]
),
],
cxxLanguageStandard: .cxx17
)