An example of a recorder based on AudioWorklet API.

recorderWorkletProcessor.js

/*
A worklet for recording in sync with AudioContext.currentTime.

More info about the API:
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/12/audio-worklet

How to use:

1. Serve this file from your server (e.g. put it in the "public" folder) as is.

2. Register the worklet:

    const audioContext = new AudioContext();
    audioContext.audioWorklet.addModule('path/to/recorderWorkletProcessor.js')
      .then(() => {
        // your code here
      })

3. Whenever you need to record anything, create a WorkletNode, route the 
audio into it, and schedule the values for 'isRecording' parameter:

      const recorderNode = new window.AudioWorkletNode(
        audioContext,
        'recorder-worklet'
      );

      yourSourceNode.connect(recorderNode);
      recorderNode.connect(audioContext.destination);

      recorderNode.port.onmessage = (e) => {
        if (e.data.eventType === 'data') {
          const audioData = e.data.audioBuffer;
          // process pcm data
        }

        if (e.data.eventType === 'stop') {
          // recording has stopped
        }
      };

      recorderNode.parameters.get('isRecording').setValueAtTime(1, time);
      recorderNode.parameters.get('isRecording').setValueAtTime(
        0,
        time + duration
      );
      yourSourceNode.start(time);
      
*/

class RecorderWorkletProcessor extends AudioWorkletProcessor {
  static get parameterDescriptors() {
    return [{
      name: 'isRecording',
      defaultValue: 0
    }];
  }

  constructor() {
    super();
    this._bufferSize = 2048;
    this._buffer = new Float32Array(this._bufferSize);
    this._initBuffer();
  }

  _initBuffer() {
    this._bytesWritten = 0;
  }

  _isBufferEmpty() {
    return this._bytesWritten === 0;
  }

  _isBufferFull() {
    return this._bytesWritten === this._bufferSize;
  }

  _appendToBuffer(value) {
    if (this._isBufferFull()) {
      this._flush();
    }

    this._buffer[this._bytesWritten] = value;
    this._bytesWritten += 1;
  }

  _flush() {
    let buffer = this._buffer;
    if (this._bytesWritten < this._bufferSize) {
      buffer = buffer.slice(0, this._bytesWritten);
    }

    this.port.postMessage({
      eventType: 'data',
      audioBuffer: buffer
    });

    this._initBuffer();
  }

  _recordingStopped() {
    this.port.postMessage({
      eventType: 'stop'
    });
  }

  process(inputs, outputs, parameters) {
    const isRecordingValues = parameters.isRecording;

    for (
      let dataIndex = 0;
      dataIndex < isRecordingValues.length;
      dataIndex++
    ) {
      const shouldRecord = isRecordingValues[dataIndex] === 1;
      if (!shouldRecord && !this._isBufferEmpty()) {
        this._flush();
        this._recordingStopped();
      }

      if (shouldRecord) {
        this._appendToBuffer(inputs[0][0][dataIndex]);
      }
    }

    return true;
  }

}

registerProcessor('recorder-worklet', RecorderWorkletProcessor);

@flpvsk ahh thanks!

Thanks for sharing. What is the performance of this approach from your side? I tried your code and had some performance issues. I am guessing this is because it is streaming raw data through the message port. What are your thoughts?

@BlueRui

Thanks for sharing. What is the performance of this approach from your side?

I haven't noticed any glaring performance issues, but I've also haven't done any extensive testing. This worklet works fine in production on a very specific usecase.

I think as long as there's no other way to share memory between worklets & main thread, sending data through the message port is the only option.

Hi, Do you have an example page showing this working in a similar manner to recorder.js ?

Thanks

Hi, Do you have an example page showing this working in a similar manner to recorder.js ?

Thanks

https://gist.github.com/tatsuyasusukida/b6daa0cd09bba2fbbf6289c58777eeca#file-encode-audio-js I found this one

mic-audio-recorder.js

`

class MicAudioProcessor extends AudioWorkletProcessor {
constructor() {
super();
this._lastUpdate = (new Date()).getTime();
this.waveformData = [];
}

  process(inputs, outputs) {

      this.port.postMessage(inputs[0]);

      //// Copy inputs to outputs.
      //output[0].set(input[0]);

      return true;
  }

}

registerProcessor("micAudioworklet", MicAudioProcessor);

`

from https://github.com/addpipe/simple-recorderjs-demo/blob/master/js/recorder.js

change line 57 -> 74

`

                this.context = source.context;//AudioContext
                var micAudioWorklet;
                //window.AudioWorkletNode=null;
                if (window.AudioWorkletNode) {
                    this.context.audioWorklet.addModule('./assets/mic-audio-recorder.js')
                        .then(async () => {
                            micAudioWorklet = new AudioWorkletNode(this.context, "micAudioworklet");
                            micAudioWorklet.connect(this.context.destination);
                            var bufferWithChannel = [];
                            for (var channel = 0; channel < _this.config.numChannels; channel++) {
                                bufferWithChannel.push([]);
                            }
                            micAudioWorklet.port.onmessage = ({ data }) => {
                                if (!_this.recording) return;
                                var buffer = [];
                                var canPost = true;
                                for (var channel = 0; channel < _this.config.numChannels; channel++) {
                                    bufferWithChannel[channel].push(...data[channel]);
                                    if (bufferWithChannel[channel].length >= this.config.bufferLen) {
                                        var temp = bufferWithChannel[channel].slice(0, this.config.bufferLen);
                                        //console.log(temp.length)
                                        buffer[channel]=temp;
                                        bufferWithChannel[channel] = bufferWithChannel[channel].slice(this.config.bufferLen);
                                    } else {
                                        canPost = false;
                                    }
                                }
                                if (canPost) {
                                    _this.worker.postMessage({
                                        command: 'record',
                                        buffer: buffer
                                    });
                                    buffer = [];
                                }
                                //// draw wave form: https://codesandbox.io/p/devbox/audioworket-port-1-y7ctsn?file=%2Findex.js%3A24%2C69
                            };
                            source.connect(micAudioWorklet).connect(this.context.destination);
                        })
                        .catch(error => {
                            console.error('Error registering audio worklet:', error);
                        });
                } else {
                    //// this is old one 
                    this.node = (this.context.createScriptProcessor || this.context.createJavaScriptNode).call(this.context, this.config.bufferLen, this.config.numChannels, this.config.numChannels);
                    this.node.onaudioprocess = function (e) {
                        if (!_this.recording) return;
                        var buffer = [];
                        for (var channel = 0; channel < _this.config.numChannels; channel++) {
                            //console.log(e.inputBuffer.getChannelData(channel).length)
                            buffer.push(e.inputBuffer.getChannelData(channel));
                        }
                        _this.worker.postMessage({
                            command: 'record',
                            buffer: buffer
                        });
                    };
                    source.connect(this.node);
                    this.node.connect(this.context.destination); //this should not be necessary
                }

`