Experimenting with the proposed Cross-Origin Storage API in Transformers.js

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(This is a guest post by Developer Relations Engineer Thomas Steiner from the Chrome team at Google.)

Transformers.js provides Web developers with a simple way to use the power of transformers in their Web apps through task-specific pipelines. To run inference in the browser, developers create an instance of pipeline() and specify a task they want to use the pipeline for. As a concrete example, the following snippet shows how to set up an automatic speech recognition (ASR) pipeline.

import { pipeline } from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@huggingface/transformers@4.2.0';

const asr = await pipeline(