Ability to turn on VoiceFocus by default

What are you trying to do?

I’m trying to enable Voice Focus on by default, as it appears to be the only way to prevent echo on some Android devices.

For example: I’m trying to start a meeting session with audio.

How can the documentation be improved to help your use case?

I’d like to see how one could enable VoiceFocus for all devices, upon joining the meeting and/or switching devices.

I am able to create a transformed device with VoiceFocus using VoiceFocusDeviceTransformer.create() and subsequently passing the device ID of the device I want to apply it to, but it does not seem to apply it when provided.

My approach so far:

const enableVoiceFocus = async (device?: string) => {
    const transformer = await VoiceFocusDeviceTransformer.create();
    const isVoiceFocusSupported = transformer.isSupported();
    logger.info("Voice Focus support for audio device", {
      isVoiceFocusSupported,
    });

    logger.info(`Device info while toggling audio device`, { device, isVoiceFocusSupported, selectedDevice: audioInputs.selectedDevice });
    if (isVoiceFocusSupported && device) {
      logger.info("Enabling voice focus for audio device.", { device });
      const transformedDevice = await voiceFocus.addVoiceFocus(audioInputs.selectedDevice);
      logger.debug("TransformedDevice", { transformedDevice });
      if (transformedDevice) {
          const response = await meetingManager.audioVideo?.chooseAudioInputDevice(transformedDevice);
          logger.info("Voice focus enabled for audio device.", { device, response });
      }
    }
  };

For example: Include a section on how to configure the meeting session.

What documentation have you looked at so far?

These docs, the the developer guide as well as the React SDK.

*For example: README.md, Amazon Chime SDK Developer Guide, etc.

[kodai305]

Am I correct in understanding that the only way to enable VoiceFocus by default is to use the JS SDK? Is manual switching the only way to do this in ReactComponent?

[nmonasterio]

@xuesichao That sounds like a plan. I’ll open up a feature request there.

And yes, a how-to on how to do from the JS SDK would suffice for the time being.

Thanks!