Can SenseVoiceSmall be registered and run locally instead of downloading from HuggingFace?

[sumedh-garimella]

I am trying to run a local version of SenseVoiceSmall (I am assuming that my production environment will not have access to download a model from HuggingFace), but am coming across the error '{model path} is not registered', despite attempting to use the tables.register() method. Is it possible to register a local copy of the SenseVoiceSmall and use it with AutoModel, and if so, how do I do so? Thanks in advance!

Reference code:
model_dir = "SenseVoiceSmall/model.pt" # downloaded from HuggingFace to be used locally
tables.register('SenseVoiceSmall', 'SenseVoice/model.py') # SenseVoice is the cloned SenseVoice code
#tables.register('SenseVoiceSmall', model_dir)
model = AutoModel(model=model_dir, device="cuda:0", hub=None)

[LauraGPT]

model_dir should be absolute path.