MRCPRecog unimrcp + pocketshinx No-Input-Timerout does not work

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Use MRCPRecog and PocketSphinx in Asterisk setting b=0, and nit
2. Watch output from mrcpserver and you will see the nit in the Recognize 
command.
3. The mrcp server never processes the nit.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Latest version of unimrcp on CentOS 6.3

Please provide any additional information below.

Running this MRCPRecog command as follows:
MRCPRecog(/usr/local/unimrcp/data/posneg.jsgf,p=default&t=5000&b=0&nit=5000&ct=0
.7&spl=en-US&sit=true&f=prompt)

You can see the Rccognize request with the nit set:

2013-04-13 12:04:42:637295 [INFO]   Receive MRCPv2 Stream 10.220.1.26:1544 <-> 
10.220.1.26:47652 [297 bytes]
MRCP/2.0 297 RECOGNIZE 2
Channel-Identifier: 39e53058a45c11e2@speechrecog
Content-Type: text/uri-list
Recognition-Mode: false
Recognition-Timeout: 5000
Confidence-Threshold: 0.7
Speech-Language: en-US
Start-Input-Timers: true
No-Input-Timeout: 5000
Content-Length: 17

session:grammar-0
2013-04-13 12:04:42:637387 [INFO]   Process RECOGNIZE Request 
<39e53058a45c11e2@speechrecog> [2]
2013-04-13 12:04:42:637422 [INFO]   Dispatch Request RECOGNIZE 
<39e53058a45c11e2@pocketsphinx>
2013-04-13 12:04:42:637489 [INFO]   Open Waveform File 
[/tmp/utter-39e53058a45c11e2-2.pcm] <39e53058a45c11e2@pocketsphinx>
2013-04-13 12:04:42:637575 [INFO]   Process RECOGNIZE Response 
<39e53058a45c11e2@speechrecog> [2]
2013-04-13 12:04:42:637586 [INFO]   State Transition IDLE -> RECOGNIZING 
<39e53058a45c11e2@speechrecog>
2013-04-13 12:04:42:637746 [INFO]   Send MRCPv2 Stream 10.220.1.26:1544 <-> 
10.220.1.26:47652 [83 bytes]
MRCP/2.0 83 2 200 IN-PROGRESS
Channel-Identifier: 39e53058a45c11e2@speechrecog

But if there is no audio input, the MRCP Server never times out.  Am I correct 
in assuming that if the nit is set, the server will at some point timeout, or 
rather, pocketsphinx would send an nit message to the server saying to 
discontinue?

Also, I found the nit setting in pocketsphinx.xml in the conf directory, it 
does nothing.

Would it be better to have asterisk handle the nit instead of pocketsphinx?  
Perhaps pocketsphinx in incapable of performing an nit.

Can someone point me in the correct direction here please..

Also, one quick unrelated question, I see that the client/server ports are 
fixed, does this mean that unimrcp can only handle one call at a time, or can 
it handle multiple, thx.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by damiank...@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2013 at 5:10

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Additional info:

in mrcp_pocketsphinx.c this statement is always false:
if(recognizer->is_input_timer_on == TRUE) 

Original comment by damiank...@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2013 at 5:19

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the recognizer->is_input_timer_on flag is always false, but, even if it were 
set to true at the beginning of the call...

Theres another problem here.  If the microphone is completed muted before 
placing the call, this statement is executed once or twice anyways:
if(score != 0 && recognizer->is_input_timer_on)
{
       recognizer->is_input_timer_on = FALSE;
}

Not sure what can be done here....  There are partial results even though the 
call is completely muted before placing.  

Original comment by damiank...@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2013 at 5:27

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Fixed....
Commenting the following:
/* reset input timer as we have partial match now */
//              if(score != 0 && recognizer->is_input_timer_on)
        //      {
//                    recognizer->is_input_timer_on = FALSE;
//              }

And adding this:

det_event = mpf_activity_detector_process(recognizer->detector,frame);
  switch(det_event) {
      case MPF_DETECTOR_EVENT_ACTIVITY:
++           if(recognizer->is_input_timer_on)
++           {
++              apt_log(APT_LOG_MARK,APT_PRIO_INFO,"Stopping input timers..... 
"APT_SIDRES_FMT ,RECOGNIZER_SIDRES(recognizer));
++                recognizer->is_input_timer_on = FALSE;
++           }
           apt_log(APT_LOG_MARK,APT_PRIO_INFO,"Detected Voice Activity "APT_SIDRES_FMT,RECOGNIZER_SIDRES(recognizer));
                    pocketsphinx_start_of_input(recognizer);
                break;
     case MPF_DETECTOR_EVENT_INACTIVITY:
      apt_log(APT_LOG_MARK,APT_PRIO_INFO,"Detected Voice Inactivity "APT_SIDRES_FMT,
                                      RECOGNIZER_SIDRES(recognizer));
                                pocketsphinx_end_of_input(recognizer,RECOGNIZER_COMPLETION_CAUSE_SUCCESS);
                                break;
                        default:
                                break;
                }

For some reason, the pocketsphinx plugin gets partial results even if the 
microphone is muted, however, even though pocketsphinx is getting partial 
results, MRCP correctly detects voice activity, therefore, stopping the input 
timers where voice is properly detected fixes the issue.

A patch is attached..

Original comment by damiank...@gmail.com on 13 Apr 2013 at 5:57

Attachments:

• mrcppatch

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Original comment by achalo...@gmail.com on 16 Apr 2013 at 1:45

• Added labels: Component-PocketSphinx, OpSys-All, Priority-Medium, Type-Defect