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When working with websockets, it's important to manage your connections efficiently. Reusing an established SSL/TLS session can help reduce latency by skipping the handshake process, which improves latency for all requests after the session’s first.

However, you should also limit the number of times a connection is closed and reopened to the extent possible. This is because an SSL/TLS handshake takes place at the beginning of a connection, which adds overhead.

If you're experiencing issues with a globally initialized websocket, it might be due to the connection being closed and reopened too many times. Try to manage your websocket connections in a way that minimizes the number of closures and reconnections.

Here's an example of how you might manage a websocket connection in an Express.js application:

// src/app.ts
import 'dotenv/config';
import express, { Response } from 'express';
import ExpressWs from 'express-ws';
import VoiceResponse from 'twilio/lib/twiml/VoiceResponse';
import { ElevenLabsClient } from 'elevenlabs';
import { type WebSocket } from 'ws';
import { type Readable } from 'stream';

const app = ExpressWs(express()).app;
const PORT: number = parseInt(process.env.PORT || '5000');

const elevenlabs = new ElevenLabsClient();
const voiceId = '21m00Tcm4TlvDq8ikWAM';
const outputFormat = 'ulaw_8000';
const text = 'This is a test. You can now hang up. Thank you.';

function startApp() {
  app.post('/call/incoming', (_, res: Response) => {
    const twiml = new VoiceResponse();

    twiml.connect().stream({
      url: `wss://${process.env.SERVER_DOMAIN}/call/connection`,
    });

    res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/xml' });
    res.end(twiml.toString());
  });

  app.ws('/call/connection', (ws: WebSocket) => {
    ws.on('message', async (data: string) => {
      const message: {
        event: string;
        start?: { streamSid: string; callSid: string };
      } = JSON.parse(data);

      if (message.event === 'start' && message.start) {
        const streamSid = message.start.streamSid;
        const response = await elevenlabs.textToSpeech.convert(voiceId, {
          model_id: 'eleven_turbo_v2',
          output_format: outputFormat,
          text,
        });

        const audioArrayBuffer = await streamToArrayBuffer(response);

        ws.send(
          JSON.stringify({
            streamSid,
            event: 'media',
            media: {
              payload: Buffer.from(audioArrayBuffer as any).toString('base64'),
            },
          }),
        );
      }
    });

    ws.on('error', console.error);
  });

  app.listen(PORT, () => {
    console.log(`Local: http://localhost:${PORT}`);
    console.log(`Remote: https://${process.env.SERVER_DOMAIN}`);
  });
}

function streamToArrayBuffer(readableStream: Readable) {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    const chunks: Buffer[] = [];

    readableStream.on('data', (chunk) => {
      chunks.push(chunk);
    });

    readableStream.on('end', () => {
      resolve(Buffer.concat(chunks).buffer);
    });

    readableStream.on('error', reject);
  });
}

startApp();

In this example, the websocket connection is managed within the '/call/connection' route. The connection is opened when a message is received, and the connection is closed when an error occurs. This approach helps to limit the number of times the connection is closed and reopened.

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