[Whisper] Block language/task args for English-only (#27322)

* [Whisper] Block language/task args for English-only

* Update src/transformers/models/whisper/modeling_whisper.py

Co-authored-by: amyeroberts <22614925+amyeroberts@users.noreply.github.com>

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Co-authored-by: amyeroberts <22614925+amyeroberts@users.noreply.github.com>

src/transformers/models/whisper/modeling_whisper.py

@@ -1841,6 +1841,22 @@ class WhisperForConditionalGeneration(WhisperPreTrainedModel):
         else:
             generation_config.return_timestamps = False
 
+        if is_multilingual is not None:
+            if not hasattr(generation_config, "is_multilingual"):
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "The generation config is outdated and is thus not compatible with the `is_multilingual` argument "
+                    "to `generate`. Please update the generation config as per the instructions "
+                    "https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/issues/25084#issuecomment-1664398224"
+                )
+            generation_config.is_multilingual = is_multilingual
+
+        if hasattr(generation_config, "is_multilingual") and not generation_config.is_multilingual:
+            if task is not None or language is not None:
+                raise ValueError(
+                    "Cannot specify `task` or `language` for an English-only model. If the model is intended to be "
+                    "multilingual, pass `is_multilingual=True` to generate, or update the generation config."
+                )
+
         if language is not None:
             if not hasattr(generation_config, "lang_to_id"):
                 raise ValueError(

tests/pipelines/test_pipelines_automatic_speech_recognition.py

@@ -852,6 +852,44 @@ class AutomaticSpeechRecognitionPipelineTests(unittest.TestCase):
         output_3 = speech_translator(filename)
         self.assertEqual(output_3, {"text": " Un uomo ha detto all'universo, Sir, esiste."})
 
+    @slow
+    @require_torch
+    def test_whisper_language(self):
+        speech_recognizer = pipeline(
+            task="automatic-speech-recognition",
+            model="openai/whisper-tiny.en",
+            framework="pt",
+        )
+        ds = load_dataset("hf-internal-testing/librispeech_asr_dummy", "clean", split="validation")
+        filename = ds[0]["file"]
+
+        # 1. English-only model compatible with no language argument
+        output = speech_recognizer(filename)
+        self.assertEqual(
+            output,
+            {"text": " Mr. Quilter is the apostle of the middle classes, and we are glad to welcome his gospel."},
+        )
+
+        # 2. English-only Whisper does not accept the language argument
+        with self.assertRaisesRegex(
+            ValueError,
+            "Cannot specify `task` or `langauge` for an English-only model. If the model is intended to be multilingual, "
+            "pass `is_multilingual=True` to generate, or update the generation config.",
+        ):
+            _ = speech_recognizer(filename, generate_kwargs={"language": "en"})
+
+        # 3. Multilingual model accepts language argument
+        speech_recognizer = pipeline(
+            task="automatic-speech-recognition",
+            model="openai/whisper-tiny",
+            framework="pt",
+        )
+        output = speech_recognizer(filename, generate_kwargs={"language": "en"})
+        self.assertEqual(
+            output,
+            {"text": " Mr. Quilter is the apostle of the middle classes and we are glad to welcome his gospel."},
+        )
+
     @slow
     @require_torch
     @require_torchaudio