src/control_backend/agents/vad_agent.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import logging
 import numpy as np
 import torch
 import zmq
+import zmq.asyncio as azmq
 from spade.agent import Agent
 from spade.behaviour import CyclicBehaviour
 
@@ -13,7 +14,7 @@ logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
 class SocketPoller[T]:
-    def __init__(self, socket: zmq.Socket[T]):
+    def __init__(self, socket: azmq.Socket):
         self.socket = socket
         self.poller = zmq.Poller()
         self.poller.register(self.socket, zmq.POLLIN)
@@ -31,23 +32,8 @@ class SocketPoller[T]:
         return None
 
 
-class VADAgent(Agent):
-    """
-    An agent which listens to an audio stream, does Voice Activity Detection (VAD), and sends
-    fragments with detected speech to other agents over ZeroMQ.
-    """
-    def __init__(self, audio_in_address: str, audio_in_bind: bool):
-        jid = settings.agent_settings.vad_agent_name + '@' + settings.agent_settings.host
-        super().__init__(jid, settings.agent_settings.vad_agent_name)
-
-        self.audio_in_address = audio_in_address
-        self.audio_in_bind = audio_in_bind
-
-        self.audio_in_socket: zmq.Socket | None = None
-        self.audio_out_socket: zmq.Socket | None = None
-
-    class Stream(CyclicBehaviour):
-        def __init__(self, audio_in_socket: zmq.Socket, audio_out_socket: zmq.Socket):
+class Streaming(CyclicBehaviour):
+    def __init__(self, audio_in_socket: azmq.Socket, audio_out_socket: azmq.Socket):
         super().__init__()
         self.audio_in_poller = SocketPoller[bytes](audio_in_socket)
         self.model, _ = torch.hub.load(repo_or_dir="snakers4/silero-vad",
@@ -89,12 +75,28 @@ class VADAgent(Agent):
         # Speech probably ended. Make sure we have a usable amount of data.
         if len(self.audio_buffer) >= 3*len(chunk):
             logger.debug("Speech ended.")
-                self.audio_out_socket.send(self.audio_buffer)
+            await self.audio_out_socket.send(self.audio_buffer.tobytes())
 
         # At this point, we know that the speech has ended.
         # Prepend the last chunk that had no speech, for a more fluent boundary
         self.audio_buffer = chunk
 
+
+class VADAgent(Agent):
+    """
+    An agent which listens to an audio stream, does Voice Activity Detection (VAD), and sends
+    fragments with detected speech to other agents over ZeroMQ.
+    """
+    def __init__(self, audio_in_address: str, audio_in_bind: bool):
+        jid = settings.agent_settings.vad_agent_name + '@' + settings.agent_settings.host
+        super().__init__(jid, settings.agent_settings.vad_agent_name)
+
+        self.audio_in_address = audio_in_address
+        self.audio_in_bind = audio_in_bind
+
+        self.audio_in_socket: azmq.Socket | None = None
+        self.audio_out_socket: azmq.Socket | None = None
+
     async def stop(self):
         """
         Stop listening to audio, stop publishing audio, close sockets.
@@ -133,9 +135,10 @@ class VADAgent(Agent):
         if audio_out_port is None:
             await self.stop()
             return
+        audio_out_address = f"tcp://localhost:{audio_out_port}"
 
-        stream = self.Stream(self.audio_in_socket, self.audio_out_socket)
-        self.add_behaviour(stream)
+        streaming = Streaming(self.audio_in_socket, self.audio_out_socket)
+        self.add_behaviour(streaming)
 
         # ... start agents dependent on the output audio fragments here
 

src/control_backend/core/config.py

@@ -6,9 +6,6 @@ from pydantic_settings import BaseSettings, SettingsConfigDict
 class ZMQSettings(BaseModel):
     internal_comm_address: str = "tcp://localhost:5560"
 
-    audio_fragment_port: int = 5561
-    audio_fragment_address: str = f"tcp://localhost:{audio_fragment_port}"
-
 
 class AgentSettings(BaseModel):
     host: str = "localhost"

test/unit/agents/test_vad_streaming.py

@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+from unittest.mock import AsyncMock, MagicMock
+
+import numpy as np
+import pytest
+
+from control_backend.agents.vad_agent import Streaming
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def audio_in_socket():
+    return AsyncMock()
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def audio_out_socket():
+    return AsyncMock()
+
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def streaming(audio_in_socket, audio_out_socket):
+    return Streaming(audio_in_socket, audio_out_socket)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.asyncio
+async def test_voice_activity_detected(audio_in_socket, audio_out_socket, streaming):
+    # After three chunks of audio with speech probability of 1.0, then four chunks of audio with
+    #  speech probability of 0.0, it should send a message over the audio out socket
+    probabilities = [1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0]
+    model_item = MagicMock()
+    model_item.item.side_effect = probabilities
+    streaming.model = MagicMock()
+    streaming.model.return_value = model_item
+
+    audio_in_poller = AsyncMock()
+    audio_in_poller.poll.return_value = np.empty(shape=512, dtype=np.float32)
+    streaming.audio_in_poller = audio_in_poller
+
+    for _ in probabilities:
+        await streaming.run()
+
+    audio_out_socket.send.assert_called_once()
+    data = audio_out_socket.send.call_args[0][0]
+    assert isinstance(data, bytes)
+    # each sample has 512 frames of 4 bytes, expecting 5 chunks (3 with speech, 2 as padding)
+    assert len(data) == 512*4*5