[Bug] OVEP always got the Warning: Specified provider 'OpenVINOExecutionProvider' is not in available provider names.Available providers: 'AzureExecutionProvider, CPUExecutionProvider'

[luke-lin-vmc]

Describe the issue

We are making below pipeline to show how to run Whisper on Intel CPU/GPU/NPU thru ORT+OVEP
https://github.com/luke-lin-vmc/whisper-ovep-python-static

When running the pipeline thru OVEP, we always got below warning, no matter the device is CPU, GPU or NPU

Warning: Specified provider 'OpenVINOExecutionProvider' is not in available provider names.Available providers: 'AzureExecutionProvider, CPUExecutionProvider'

Re-install onnxruntime-openvino can workaround the issue

pip uninstall -y onnxruntime-openvino
pip install onnxruntime-openvino~=1.23.0

To reproduce

Please refer https://github.com/luke-lin-vmc/whisper-ovep-python-static, all the required files are there.

1. To make a clean environment, run below commands to uninstall all installed python pacakges

pip freeze > un.txt
pip uninstall -y -r un.txt

2. Run the following commands to export models

pip install -r requirements.txt
python export-onnx.py --model base

3. Run the pipeline on CPU

python whisper_onnx.py --model_type base --device CPU how_are_you_doing_today.wav

Below warning appears, and it acutally does not use OV's CPU but falls back to default CPUExecutionProvider

Warning: Specified provider 'OpenVINOExecutionProvider' is not in available provider names.Available providers: 'AzureExecutionProvider, CPUExecutionProvider'

4. Reinstall onnxruntime-openvino to workaround this issue

pip uninstall -y onnxruntime-openvino
pip install onnxruntime-openvino

5. Run the pipeline on CPU again, No warning was shown

python whisper_onnx.py --model_type base --device CPU how_are_you_doing_today.wav

[Log]

Log file: https://github.com/luke-lin-vmc/whisper-ovep-python-static/blob/main/log_full.txt

Line#379 : First time run the pipeline thru OVEP
Line#386 : Warning appears
Line#411 and Line#421 : Apply workaround by re-installing onnxruntime-openvino
Line#440 : Runnn the pipeline again. No warning was shown

Urgency

Medium

Platform

Windows

OS Version

Windows 11 24H2

ONNX Runtime Installation

Released Package

ONNX Runtime Version or Commit ID

1.23.2

ONNX Runtime API

Python

Architecture

X64

Execution Provider

OpenVINO

Execution Provider Library Version

5.8

Model File

Please refer https://github.com/luke-lin-vmc/whisper-ovep-python-static
Steps to export model has been mentioned in [To Reproduce] section

Is this a quantized model?

No

[luke-lin-vmc]

Solved by removing onnxruntime from requirements.txt. This is because onnxruntime-openvino has included all of the necessary onnxruntime components.