Addresses reliability gaps in the real-time voice WebSocket connection
between Flutter client and Python voice-service backend.
Backend (voice-service):
- Heartbeat: new _heartbeat_sender coroutine sends JSON ping text frames
every 15s alongside the Pipecat pipeline; failed send = dead connection
- Session preservation: on WebSocket disconnect, sessions are now marked
"disconnected" with a timestamp instead of being deleted, allowing
reconnection within a configurable TTL (default 60s)
- Reconnect endpoint: POST /sessions/{id}/reconnect verifies the session
is alive and in "disconnected" state, returns fresh websocket_url
- Reconnect-aware WS handler: detects "disconnected" sessions, cancels
stale pipeline tasks, creates a new pipeline, sends "session.resumed"
- Background cleanup: asyncio loop every 30s removes sessions that have
been disconnected longer than session_ttl
- Structured event protocol: text frames = JSON control messages
(ping/pong/session.resumed/session.ended/error), binary = PCM audio
- New settings: session_ttl (60s), heartbeat_interval (15s),
heartbeat_timeout (45s)
Flutter (agent_call_page.dart):
- Heartbeat monitoring: tracks last server ping timestamp, triggers
reconnect if no ping received in 45s (3 missed intervals)
- Auto-reconnect: exponential backoff (1s→2s→4s→8s→16s), max 5 attempts;
calls /reconnect endpoint to verify session, rebuilds WebSocket,
resets audio buffer, restarts heartbeat
- Reconnecting UI: yellow warning banner "重新连接中... (N/5)" with
spinner overlay during reconnection attempts
- WebSocket data routing: _onWsData distinguishes String (JSON control)
from binary (audio) frames, handles ping/session.resumed/session.ended
- User-initiated disconnect guard: _userEndedCall flag prevents reconnect
attempts when user intentionally hangs up
- session_id field compatibility: supports session_id/sessionId/id
Flutter (pcm_player.dart):
- Jitter buffer: queues incoming PCM chunks, starts playback only after
accumulating 4800 bytes (150ms at 16kHz 16-bit mono) to smooth out
network timing variance
- reset() method: clears buffer on reconnect to discard stale audio
- Buffer underrun handling: re-enters buffering phase if queue empties
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace traditional on-device speech_to_text with a modern pipeline:
- Record audio via `record` package with hardware noise suppression
- Apply GTCRN neural denoising (sherpa-onnx, ICASSP 2024, 48K params)
- Trim silence, POST to backend /voice/transcribe (faster-whisper)
Changes:
- Add /transcribe endpoint to voice-service for audio file upload
- Add SpeechEnhancer wrapper for sherpa-onnx GTCRN model (523KB)
- Rewrite chat_page.dart voice input: record → denoise → transcribe
- Keep NoiseReducer.trimSilence for silence removal only
- Upgrade record to v6.2.0, add sherpa_onnx, path_provider
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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