feat(start-request-params): added the ability to control start request params

README.md

@@ -31,6 +31,12 @@ activateTranscriptions({
     symblAccessToken: 'ACCESS_TOKEN_FROM_SYMBL_AI',
     connectionId: 'SOME_ARBITRARY_CONNECTION_ID', // optional,
     speakerUserId: 'SOME_ARBITRARY_USER_ID_FOR_SPEAKER', // optional
+    symblStartRequestParams: { // optional. Subset of https://docs.symbl.ai/reference/streaming-api-reference#start_request
+        noConnectionTimeout: 0,
+        config: {
+            sentiment: false,
+        },
+    },
 });
 ```
 
@@ -40,6 +46,27 @@ This method internally connects with Symbl using Websocket connection & automati
 
 `speakerUserId` field is optional. If not passed, value of `meeting.self.clientSpecificId` will be used as `speakerUserId`.
 
+`symblStartRequestParams` field is optional. In case you want to control Symbl settings further, you can override the values by passing just the fields to override, from https://docs.symbl.ai/reference/streaming-api-reference#start_request. 
+
+We perform deep merge of the passed value with the defaults, therefore no need to construct complete start_request message. For example, If you want to add just the email field to speaker and also want to change noConnectionTimeout to 300, you can do so using the following code snippet.
+
+```js
+activateTranscriptions({
+    meeting: meeting, // From DyteClient.init
+    symblAccessToken: 'ACCESS_TOKEN_FROM_SYMBL_AI',
+    connectionId: 'SOME_ARBITRARY_CONNECTION_ID', // optional,
+    speakerUserId: 'SOME_ARBITRARY_USER_ID_FOR_SPEAKER', // optional
+    symblStartRequestParams: { // optional. Any subset of https://docs.symbl.ai/reference/streaming-api-reference#start_request
+        noConnectionTimeout: 300,
+        speaker: {
+            email: '[email protected]',
+        }
+    }
+});
+```
+
+<b>Note:</b> If, in case, the passed fields are incorrect or poorly placed, conversation might not get created. In such cases, an error would be logged in developer console for you to debug further.
+
 
 4. If you want to show transcriptions to a participant or for `self`, you can do so using the following snippet.
 

demo/index.ts

@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@
         const symblAccessToken = params.get('symblAccessToken') || '';
 
         if (!authToken || (roomName && !authToken)) {
             alert('Please pass authToken (and roomName, if you are using v1 APIs) in query params');
             return;
         }
         if (!symblAccessToken) {
             alert('Please pass symblAccessToken in query params');
             return;
         }
 
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@
             meeting,
             languageCode: 'en-US',
             symblAccessToken,
+            symblStartRequestParams: { // optional. Subset of https://docs.symbl.ai/reference/streaming-api-reference#start_request
+                noConnectionTimeout: 0,
+                config: {
+                    sentiment: false,
+                },
+            },
         });
 
         await addTranscriptionsListener({
@@ -78,7 +84,7 @@
             removeTranscriptionsListener({ meeting });
         });
     } catch (e) {
         console.log(e);
     }
 };
 

package.json

@@ -43,7 +43,9 @@
   "peerDepdendencies": {
     "@dytesdk/web-core": ">=0.26.0"
   },
-  "dependencies": {},
+  "dependencies": {
+    "lodash-es": "^4.17.21"
+  },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@commitlint/cli": "^13.1.0",
     "@commitlint/config-conventional": "^13.1.0",
@@ -57,6 +59,7 @@
     "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator": "^9.0.3",
     "@types/events": "^3.0.0",
     "@types/jest": "^27.0.6",
+    "@types/lodash-es": "^4.17.12",
     "@types/long": "4.0.0",
     "@types/node": "^16.0.0",
     "@types/uuid": "^8.3.4",

src/param_types.ts

@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ export interface ActivateTranscriptionsConfig {
     languageCode?: string,
     connectionId?: string,
     speakerUserId?: string,
+    symblStartRequestParams?: { // https://docs.symbl.ai/reference/streaming-api-reference#start_request
+        [key:string]: any,
+    },
 }
 
 export interface DeactivateTranscriptionsConfig {

src/symbl_transcriptions.ts

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import merge from 'lodash-es/merge';
 import audioTranscriptionMiddleware from './audio_middleware';
 import { ActivateTranscriptionsConfig, DeactivateTranscriptionsConfig } from './param_types';
 import {
@@ -7,7 +8,6 @@
     setTranscriptions,
     setWebSocket,
 } from './transcriptions_building_blocks';
-
 /**
  *
  * @param ActivateTranscriptionsConfig Required params to initialise the middleware.
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
     languageCode,
     connectionId,
     speakerUserId,
+    symblStartRequestParams = {},
 }: ActivateTranscriptionsConfig) {
     // As a fail-safe, deactivateTranscriptions if activateTranscriptions function is called twice
     // eslint-disable-next-line no-use-before-define
@@ -35,6 +36,10 @@
     // Fired when a message is received from the WebSocket server
     ws.onmessage = async (event) => {
         const data = JSON.parse(event.data);
+        if (data.type === 'error') {
+            console.error('Symbl error: ', data);
+            return;
+        }
         if (data.type === 'message_response') {
             data.messages?.forEach((message: any) => {
                 // console.log('Live transcript (more accurate): ', message.payload.content, data);
@@ -93,29 +98,32 @@
         console.info('Connection to Symbl websocket closed');
     };
 
+    // If start_request params are there, they wil be given a top priority
+    const startRequestParams = merge({
+        id: meeting.self.id,
+        type: 'start_request',
+        meetingTitle: meeting.meta.meetingTitle,
+        // insightTypes: ['question', 'action_item'], // Will enable insight generation
+        config: {
+            confidenceThreshold: 0.5,
+            languageCode, // Symbl has bug. This field is not honoured
+            speechRecognition: {
+                encoding: 'LINEAR16',
+                sampleRateHertz: 16000,
+            },
+        },
+        speaker: {
+            // if speaker has email key, transcription gets sent at the end
+            // speaker supports all arbitary values
+            userId: speakerUserId || meeting.self.clientSpecificId || meeting.self.id,
+            name: meeting.self.name,
+            peerId: meeting.self.id,
+        },
+    }, symblStartRequestParams);
+
     // Fired when the connection succeeds.
     ws.onopen = () => {
-        ws.send(JSON.stringify({
-            id: meeting.self.id,
-            type: 'start_request',
-            meetingTitle: meeting.meta.meetingTitle,
-            // insightTypes: ['question', 'action_item'], // Will enable insight generation
-            config: {
-                confidenceThreshold: 0.5,
-                languageCode, // Symbl has bug. This field is not honoured
-                speechRecognition: {
-                    encoding: 'LINEAR16',
-                    sampleRateHertz: 16000,
-                },
-            },
-            speaker: {
-                // if speaker has email key, transcription gets sent at the end
-                // speaker supports all arbitary values
-                userId: speakerUserId || meeting.self.clientSpecificId || meeting.self.id,
-                name: meeting.self.name,
-                peerId: meeting.self.id,
-            },
-        }));
+        ws.send(JSON.stringify(startRequestParams));
     };
 
     return meeting.self.addAudioMiddleware(audioTranscriptionMiddleware);