prime the speech recognizer

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/content/scripts/speaker-rec.js b/content/scripts/speaker-rec.js
index e2efa90..68e18e1 100644
--- a/content/scripts/speaker-rec.js
+++ b/content/scripts/speaker-rec.js
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ function startSpeakerRec() {
 
 var silenceTimeout = -1;
 
-var recognizingSpeech = false;
+window.recognizingSpeech = false;
 function updateSpeakerRec(data) {
     var attendee = window.attendees.filter(function (el) { return el.peerId == data.peerId })[0];
     window.loudnesses[window.attendees.indexOf(attendee)] = data.loudness;
diff --git a/content/scripts/speech-rec.js b/content/scripts/speech-rec.js
index 2532fa9..b8faa91 100644
--- a/content/scripts/speech-rec.js
+++ b/content/scripts/speech-rec.js
@@ -10,3 +10,10 @@ speechRecognizer.finalHypothesisCallback = function (hyp) {
         window.sendServerMessage({ forward: true, type: "command", command: "speech-update", text: hyp, peerId: peerId });
     }
 };
+
+//Prime the speech recognition with ~0.5s of previous data
+setInterval(function () {
+    if (window.recognizingSpeech) return;
+    speechRecognizer.stopRecognizing();
+    speechRecognizer.startRecognizing();
+}, 500);