Error starting project from scratch: models/ folder must be manually created

[RainbowRivey]

model.py:22 open() does not create folders automatically, so model_path must be created manually before starting.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 194, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/runpy.py", line 87, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "/workspace/tohyve-services/automatic_speech_recognition/main.py", line 20, in <module>
    pipe, MODEL_NAME = init_model()
  File "/workspace/tohyve-services/automatic_speech_recognition/model.py", line 22, in init_model
    pickle.dump(pipe, open(model_path, 'wb'))
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'models/whisper-medium.pkl'