How to send audio stream to Websocket in ReactNative

[patent gate]

Hey.

I have a feature in my ReactNative app, where user will record his/her 5-10 secs queries.

Now I am using Deepgram Streaming Speech-to-Text API to transcribe audio stream. I have setup websocket to process
the audio stream.

Reason of using Streaming Speech-to-Text API is that so I get transcribed results as soon as user speaks and I think streaming SST API will give me faster results as compare to pre-recorded API.

Now I am stuck, how could I send audio stream chunks through ws.send(). Can you guide me, how can I send audio data to Websocket.

[wary mesa]

Hi @patent gate. I'm kapa.ai, your friendly support bot. I will try to answer your question by searching through the knowledge base. :wave:

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To send audio data to the WebSocket in a React Native application, you would typically use the ws.send() function. This function is used to send data over the WebSocket connection to Deepgram for processing.

Here's a general example of how you might send audio data over a WebSocket connection:

ws.on("open", function open() {
  console.log("WebSocket connection established.");

  // Replace this with your audio streaming logic
  // For example, you might read audio from a microphone and send it over the WebSocket
  ws.send(audioData);
});

In the context of a React Native application, you would need to capture the audio data from the user's microphone, convert it into a suitable format (such as a binary data), and then send it over the WebSocket connection using the ws.send() function.

However, the exact implementation would depend on the specifics of your application and the libraries you are using to handle audio recording and WebSocket communication in React Native.

Unfortunately, the knowledge sources provided do not include specific examples or instructions for sending audio data over a WebSocket connection in a React Native application. I would recommend referring to the documentation for the libraries you are using in your application for more specific guidance.

For more information on how to use Deepgram's WebSocket API for real-time transcription, you can refer to the Deepgram's Live API documentation (https://developers.deepgram.com/reference/listen-live) and Deepgram's WebSocket API code samples (https://github.com/deepgram-devs/code-samples/blob/main/documentation/javascript-readme.md).

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