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• Twilio Real-Time Media Streaming to WebSocket Receives Only Noise Instead of Speech

  21 février, par dannym25

  I'm setting up a Twilio Voice call with real-time media streaming to a WebSocket server for speech-to-text processing using Google Cloud Speech-to-Text. The connection is established successfully, and I receive a continuous stream of audio data from Twilio. However, when I play back the received audio, all I hear is a rapid clicking/jackhammering noise instead of the actual speech spoken during the call.

  


  Setup :

  


  

  • Twilio sends inbound audio to my WebSocket server.

  


  • WebSocket receives and saves the raw mulaw-encoded audio data from Twilio.

  


  • The audio is processed via Google Speech-to-Text for transcription.

  


  • When I attempt to play back the audio, it sounds like machine-gun-like noise instead of spoken words.

  


  


  1. Confirmed WebSocket Receives Data

  


  • The WebSocket successfully logs incoming audio chunks from Twilio :

  


  🔊 Received 379 bytes of audio from Twilio
🔊 Received 379 bytes of audio from Twilio


  


  • This suggests Twilio is sending audio data, but it's not being interpreted correctly.

  


  2. Saving and Playing Raw Audio

  


  • I save the incoming raw mulaw (8000Hz) audio from Twilio to a file :

  


  fs.appendFileSync('twilio-audio.raw', message);


  


  • Then, I convert it to a .wav file using FFmpeg :

  


  ffmpeg -f mulaw -ar 8000 -ac 1 -i twilio-audio.raw twilio-audio.wav


  


  • Problem : When I play the audio using ffplay, it contains no speech, only rapid clicking sounds.

  


  3. Ensured Correct Audio Encoding

  


  • Twilio sends mulaw 8000Hz mono format.
• Verified that my ffmpeg conversion is using the same settings.
• Tried different conversion methods :

  


  ffmpeg -f mulaw -ar 8000 -ac 1 -i twilio-audio.raw -c:a pcm_s16le twilio-audio-fixed.wav


  


  → Same issue.

  


  4. Checked Google Speech-to-Text Input Format

  


  • Google STT requires proper encoding configuration :

  


  const request = {
    config: {
        encoding: 'MULAW',
        sampleRateHertz: 8000,
        languageCode: 'en-US',
    },
    interimResults: false,
};


  


  • No errors from Google STT, but it never detects speech, likely because the input audio is just noise.

  


  5. Confirmed That Raw Audio is Not a WAV File

  


  • Since Twilio sends raw audio, I checked whether I needed to strip the header before processing.
• Tried manually extracting raw bytes, but the issue persists.

  


  Current Theory :

  


  

  • The WebSocket server might be handling Twilio’s raw audio incorrectly before saving it.

  


  • There might be an additional header in the Twilio stream that needs to be removed before playback.

  


  • Twilio’s <stream></stream> tag expects a WebSocket connection starting with wss:// instead of https://, and switching to wss:// partially fixed some previous connection issues.

  


  


  Code Snippets :

  


  Twilio Setup in TwiML Response

  


  app.post('/voice-response', (req, res) => {
    console.log("📞 Incoming call from Twilio");

    const twiml = new twilio.twiml.VoiceResponse();
    twiml.say("Hello! Welcome to the service. How can I help you?");
    
    // Prevent Twilio from hanging up too early
    twiml.pause({ length: 5 });

    twiml.connect().stream({
        url: `wss://your-ngrok-url/ws`,
        track: "inbound_track"
    });

    console.log("🛠️ Twilio Stream URL:", `wss://your-ngrok-url/ws`);
    
    res.type('text/xml').send(twiml.toString());
});


  


  WebSocket Server Handling Twilio Audio Stream

  


  wss.on('connection', (ws) => {
    console.log("🔗 WebSocket Connected! Waiting for audio input...");

    ws.on('message', (message) => {
        console.log(`🔊 Received ${message.length} bytes of audio from Twilio`);

        // Save raw audio data for debugging
        fs.appendFileSync('twilio-audio.raw', message);

        // Check if audio is non-empty but contains only noise
        if (message.length < 100) {
            console.warn("⚠️ Warning: Audio data from Twilio is very small. Might be silent.");
        }
    });

    ws.on('close', () => {
        console.log("❌ WebSocket Disconnected!");
        
        // Convert Twilio audio for debugging
        exec(`ffmpeg -f mulaw -ar 8000 -ac 1 -i twilio-audio.raw twilio-audio.wav`, (err) => {
            if (err) console.error("❌ FFmpeg Conversion Error:", err);
            else console.log("✅ Twilio Audio Saved as `twilio-audio.wav`");
        });
    });

    ws.on('error', (error) => console.error("⚠️ WebSocket Error:", error));
});


  


  Questions :

  


  

  • Why is the audio from Twilio being received as a clicking noise instead of actual speech ?

  


  • Do I need to strip any additional metadata from the raw bytes before saving ?

  


  • Is there a known issue with Twilio’s mulaw format when streaming audio over WebSockets ?

  


  • How can I confirm that Google STT is receiving properly formatted audio ?

  


  


  Additional Context :

  


  

  • Twilio <stream></stream> is connected and receiving data (confirmed by logs).

  


  • WebSocket successfully receives and saves audio, but it only plays noise.

  


  • Tried multiple ffmpeg conversions, Google STT configurations, and raw data inspection.

  


  • Still no recognizable speech in the audio output.

  


  


  Any help is greatly appreciated ! 🙏

  


• Android Media palyer by FFmpeg2.3.3 and SDL2-2.0.3 has a error when SDL_init().The error is about SDL_main.h

  18 novembre 2014, par Hanamaki

  I use FFmpeg2.3.3 and SDL2-2.0.3 to develop an Android video player.I built the .apk success,but when I ran it,it’s an error at SDL_init().I got message by SDL_error().The message was :

  SDL_Init(14144) : Application didn’t initialize properly, did you include SDL_main.h in the file containing your main() function ?

  but I have #include "SDL_main.h" in the source.Anyone has some suggestions ? thanks very much.

• Revision 8c05e59065 : Calling is_inter_mode() instead of custom code. Change-Id : Iccd4ab95ea51a6d57ed

  11 juillet 2013, par Dmitry Kovalev

  Changed Paths :
   Modify /vp9/encoder/vp9_bitstream.c

  
   Modify /vp9/encoder/vp9_rdopt.c

  
  
  Calling is_inter_mode() instead of custom code.

  Change-Id : Iccd4ab95ea51a6d57ed43947f2fd7ad92e8979cf