sox never quits, and therefore never posts

[sreuter]

sox never quits, and therefore never posts

[sreuter]

Hi there. It seems like your microphone input is to high. Sox quits automatically after a certain time of silence. You may want to adjust the parameters given to sox.

[WeeJeWel]

I see, thank you! Maybe it's better to mimic Google Chrome's behavior, and send the audio regardless of the volume? This makes speech recognition impossible when playing music, for example.

[sreuter]

True. If you find a way to achieve this using sox (or maybe something else), I'm keen to learn about it!

[Glavin001]

Any progress on this, @sreuter ? I am interested in using node-speakable instead of my own project Leopold, and building on top of it for a more polished automation cloud product.

[sreuter]

@Glavin001 Nope, if you have any ideas on how to achieve this using sox, please let me know!

[ejferg]

Not sure but may be Audacity would work better (not knowing how flexible the command tools are). ffmpeg would probably be just as bad at noise canceling.

[Glavin001]

I switched to using Wit.ai for my speech recognition and natural language processing needs. I added support to node-wit for recording audio with sox. It can be stopped manually / programmatically, or because the audio goes silent.