onaudioprocess not called on ios11
I am trying to get audio capture from the microphone working on Safari on iOS11 after support was recently added
However, the onaudioprocess callback is never called. Here's an example page:
<html>
<body>
<button onclick="doIt()">DoIt</button>
<ul id="logMessages">
</ul>
<script>
function debug(msg) {
if (typeof msg !== 'undefined') {
var logList = document.getElementById('logMessages');
var newLogItem = document.createElement('li');
if (typeof msg === 'function') {
msg = Function.prototype.toString(msg);
} else if (typeof msg !== 'string') {
msg = JSON.stringify(msg);
}
var newLogText = document.createTextNode(msg);
newLogItem.appendChild(newLogText);
logList.appendChild(newLogItem);
}
}
function doIt() {
var handleSuccess = function (stream) {
var context = new AudioContext();
var input = context.createMediaStreamSource(stream)
var processor = context.createScriptProcessor(1024, 1, 1);
input.connect(processor);
processor.connect(context.destination);
processor.onaudioprocess = function (e) {
// Do something with the data, i.e Convert this to WAV
debug(e.inputBuffer);
};
};
navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({audio: true, video: false})
.then(handleSuccess);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
On most platforms, you will see items being added to the messages list as the onaudioprocess callback is called. However, on iOS, this callback is never called.
Is there something else that I should do to try and get it called on iOS 11 with Safari?
Answer
There are two problems. The main one is that Safari on iOS 11 seems to automatically suspend new AudioContext's that aren't created in response to a tap. You can resume() them, but only in response to a tap.
(Update: Chrome mobile also does this, and Chrome desktop will have the same limitation starting in version 70 / December 2018.)
So, you have to either create it before you get the MediaStream, or else get the user to tap again later.
The other issue with your code is that AudioContext is prefixed as webkitAudioContext in Safari.
Here's a working version:
<html>
<body>
<button onclick="beginAudioCapture()">Begin Audio Capture</button>
<script>
function beginAudioCapture() {
var AudioContext = window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext;
var context = new AudioContext();
var processor = context.createScriptProcessor(1024, 1, 1);
processor.connect(context.destination);
var handleSuccess = function (stream) {
var input = context.createMediaStreamSource(stream);
input.connect(processor);
var recievedAudio = false;
processor.onaudioprocess = function (e) {
// This will be called multiple times per second.
// The audio data will be in e.inputBuffer
if (!recievedAudio) {
recievedAudio = true;
console.log('got audio', e);
}
};
};
navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({audio: true, video: false})
.then(handleSuccess);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
(You can set the onaudioprocess callback sooner, but then you get empty buffers until the user approves of microphone access.)
Oh, and one other iOS bug to watch out for: the Safari on iPod touch (as of iOS 12.1.1) reports that it does not have a microphone (it does). So, getUserMedia will incorrectly reject with an Error: Invalid constraint if you ask for audio there.
FYI: I maintain the microphone-stream package on npm that does this for you and provides the audio in a Node.js-style ReadableStream. It includes this fix, if you or anyone else would prefer to use that over the raw code.