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demo/nodejs/test_microphone doesn't work on Windows due to an issue in mic package #1203

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lexasss opened this issue Nov 18, 2022 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #1303
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demo/nodejs/test_microphone doesn't work on Windows due to an issue in mic package #1203

lexasss opened this issue Nov 18, 2022 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #1303

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@lexasss
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lexasss commented Nov 18, 2022

The test_microphone.js example does not work due to an issue in [email protected] package it uses. This package is a JS binding for SoX audio tool. On Windows, it calls sox.exe with the parameter -p that is a shortcut for -t sox -, i.e. sets the data format equal to sox. The sox format is always 32-bit, while vosk.Recognizer expects 16-bit data captured from a microphone. Configuring the data value size with -b parameter set to 16 (bitwidth: '16' when creating mic instance in the test_microphone.js) does not help, it is simply ignored.

The issue can be solved by modifying mic.js file from the mic package on line 50 and replacing '-p' with '-t', 'raw', '-'. A solution could be forking this package (as the author does not maintain it anymore) and correcting the set of parameters passed to sox.exe. Similar package, node-microphone, is providing same -p parameter when launching sox.exe on Windows, thus same issue could be expected.

@nshmyrev
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Yes, we need to move to node-portaudio or some other more reasonable package.

@sebastientromp
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Thanks, that helped me get unstuck :)

@BrunoHenrique00
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Yeap, this solved the issue for me as well :). For sure need to change Microphone example in Node.js.
I created a simple example without any external lib to deal with a microphone but using Sox anyway.

Will send a PR to change the example above!

BrunoHenrique00 added a commit to BrunoHenrique00/vosk-api that referenced this issue Mar 23, 2023
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