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*/
#include "echocanceller.h"
#include "audiodevice.h"
#include "settings.h"
#include "globals.h"
#include
#include
#include
#include
// Which major version of webrtc-audio-processing this is being built against.
// 1.x and 2.x are separate parallel-installable libraries with separate
// pkg-config names, and 2.x broke the API in a few places - the conditionals
// on this below are the whole of what differs as far as this file is
// concerned.
//
// configure defines it, and so does the qmake build. The fallback is for
// anything that builds this file without either: api/audio/audio_processing.h
// is where 2.x moved the header that 1.x only had under modules/, so its
// presence is the version.
#ifndef PICA_WEBRTC_AUDIO_PROCESSING_MAJOR
# if defined(__has_include) && __has_include()
# define PICA_WEBRTC_AUDIO_PROCESSING_MAJOR 2
# else
# define PICA_WEBRTC_AUDIO_PROCESSING_MAJOR 1
# endif
#endif
// Still the right include on 2.x, where it is a stub forwarding to
// api/audio/audio_processing.h - and it is installed there, so there is
// nothing to switch on here.
#include
// Must come after the above, and not only as a matter of taste: on 2.x this
// header declares parameters as absl::Nullable/absl::Nonnull without
// including the abseil header that defines them, so on its own it does not
// compile. audio_processing.h is what pulls that in. Both versions include
// this themselves anyway; it is named here so that the scoped_refptr below is
// not silently relying on somebody else's include.
#include
extern "C" {
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
}
// Same split as audiodevice.cpp - FFmpeg 5.1 replaced the channel count and
// layout fields with the AVChannelLayout API.
#if LIBAVUTIL_VERSION_INT >= AV_VERSION_INT(57, 24, 100)
# define EC_HAVE_CH_LAYOUT 1
#else
# define EC_HAVE_CH_LAYOUT 0
#endif
// Setting values. Words rather than numbers because this is a three way
// choice that will be read by whoever is looking at a user's config, and a
// stray "2" says nothing.
static const char kEchoCancellationOwn[] = "own";
static const char kEchoCancellationPlatform[] = "platform";
static const char kEchoCancellationNone[] = "off";
EchoCancellationMode loadEchoCancellationSetting()
{
Settings st(config_dbname);
const QString value = st.loadValue("audio.echo_cancellation", QString()).toString();
if (value == QLatin1String(kEchoCancellationOwn))
return EchoCancellationOwn;
if (value == QLatin1String(kEchoCancellationPlatform))
{
// The stored choice can stop being available underneath the user -
// the audio system moved from PulseAudio to ALSA, say. Leaving it as
// it stands would mean nobody cancelling and nothing saying so.
if (AudioDevice::PlatformEchoCancellationAvailable())
return EchoCancellationPlatform;
qWarning() << "Echo cancellation is set to the platform's own, but the audio system in "
"use does not provide one - falling back to ours";
return EchoCancellationOwn;
}
if (value == QLatin1String(kEchoCancellationNone))
return EchoCancellationNone;
// Nothing stored under the current key. An install that predates it may
// still have the on/off setting this replaced, and someone who turned
// cancellation off did mean it.
if (!st.loadValue("audio.echo_cancel", 1).toBool())
return EchoCancellationNone;
// The platform's own is the better one where it exists, so it is the
// default there; elsewhere the default is ours, which is what the plain
// on/off setting used to mean.
return AudioDevice::PlatformEchoCancellationAvailable()
? EchoCancellationPlatform
: EchoCancellationOwn;
}
void storeEchoCancellationSetting(EchoCancellationMode mode)
{
Settings st(config_dbname);
switch (mode)
{
case EchoCancellationPlatform:
st.storeValue("audio.echo_cancellation", QLatin1String(kEchoCancellationPlatform));
break;
case EchoCancellationNone:
st.storeValue("audio.echo_cancellation", QLatin1String(kEchoCancellationNone));
break;
case EchoCancellationOwn:
default:
st.storeValue("audio.echo_cancellation", QLatin1String(kEchoCancellationOwn));
break;
}
}
// Holds everything that needs the WebRTC headers, so that echocanceller.h -
// which audiodevice.h includes, and so half the client with it - does not.
struct EchoCancellerPrivate
{
rtc::scoped_refptr apm;
// Both directions are mono at our rate. The integer interface requires
// the capture, playback and render rates to be the same, which is why
// pushFarEnd() resamples rather than passing the peer's rate through.
webrtc::StreamConfig stream;
};
bool EchoCanceller::isNativeRate(int rate)
{
return rate == 8000 || rate == 16000 || rate == 32000 || rate == 48000;
}
EchoCanceller::EchoCanceller(int sampleRate)
: m_sampleRate(sampleRate),
m_frameSize(0),
m_d(nullptr),
m_farSwr(nullptr),
m_farSwrRate(0),
m_nearEnergy(0.0),
m_farEnergy(0.0),
m_processedSamples(0),
m_nextReportSamples(0),
m_renderBlocks(0),
m_captureBlocks(0)
{
if (!isNativeRate(m_sampleRate))
{
qWarning() << "Echo canceller:" << m_sampleRate
<< "Hz is not one of AEC3's rates (8/16/32/48 kHz) - not cancelling";
return;
}
// AEC3 works on 10ms of audio at a time, everywhere, at every rate.
m_frameSize = m_sampleRate / 100;
webrtc::AudioProcessing::Config cfg;
cfg.echo_canceller.enabled = true;
// AEC3 proper. The mobile mode is the cut down fixed point canceller for
// phones, and is worse anywhere that can afford not to use it.
cfg.echo_canceller.mobile_mode = false;
cfg.echo_canceller.enforce_high_pass_filtering = true;
cfg.high_pass_filter.enabled = true;
// Costs little next to the filter, and a lower noise floor is what lets
// the residual echo suppressor tell echo from room noise.
cfg.noise_suppression.enabled = true;
cfg.noise_suppression.level = webrtc::AudioProcessing::Config::NoiseSuppression::kModerate;
// Both AGCs stay off. The call has no level control anywhere else, and a
// gain riding the microphone moves the echo path, which is the one thing
// an adaptive filter cannot follow.
cfg.gain_controller1.enabled = false;
cfg.gain_controller2.enabled = false;
cfg.transient_suppression.enabled = false;
#if PICA_WEBRTC_AUDIO_PROCESSING_MAJOR < 2
// All three were dropped in 2.x. The first two only gate statistics we
// never read; the third is a second, statistical echo estimator whose
// output we do not use either. Switching them off on 1.x is therefore
// the same configuration 2.x gives us for nothing.
cfg.voice_detection.enabled = false;
cfg.level_estimation.enabled = false;
cfg.residual_echo_detector.enabled = false;
#endif
m_d = new EchoCancellerPrivate;
m_d->stream = webrtc::StreamConfig(m_sampleRate, 1);
#if PICA_WEBRTC_AUDIO_PROCESSING_MAJOR >= 2
m_d->apm = webrtc::AudioProcessingBuilder().Create();
#else
// 1.x hands back a raw pointer to an object whose reference count is
// still zero - the scoped_refptr is what takes it to one, and dropping
// the result on the floor would leak rather than free.
m_d->apm = rtc::scoped_refptr(webrtc::AudioProcessingBuilder().Create());
#endif
if (!m_d->apm)
{
qWarning() << "Could not create the WebRTC audio processing module";
delete m_d;
m_d = nullptr;
return;
}
m_d->apm->ApplyConfig(cfg);
// Mono at our rate in both directions, which the integer interface
// requires anyway. Spelled out through a ProcessingConfig rather than the
// shorter Initialize() overload taking channel layouts, because that
// overload and the ChannelLayout enum it needs are gone in 2.x.
webrtc::ProcessingConfig streams;
streams.input_stream() = m_d->stream;
streams.output_stream() = m_d->stream;
streams.reverse_input_stream() = m_d->stream;
streams.reverse_output_stream() = m_d->stream;
const int err = m_d->apm->Initialize(streams);
if (err != webrtc::AudioProcessing::kNoError)
{
qWarning() << "Could not initialise the WebRTC audio processing module:" << err;
delete m_d;
m_d = nullptr;
return;
}
// Hold off the first report until there is a window's worth of audio
// behind the averages, otherwise it only says the call just started.
m_nextReportSamples = qint64(m_sampleRate) * kReportIntervalSec;
// The library version is in there because it is otherwise invisible which
// of the two parallel-installable ones got linked, and they behave
// differently enough to be worth knowing about from a log alone.
qDebug("Echo canceller: WebRTC AEC3 (webrtc-audio-processing-%d), %d Hz, frame %d samples",
PICA_WEBRTC_AUDIO_PROCESSING_MAJOR, m_sampleRate, m_frameSize);
}
EchoCanceller::~EchoCanceller()
{
delete m_d;
if (m_farSwr)
swr_free(&m_farSwr);
}
bool EchoCanceller::isValid() const
{
return m_d != nullptr;
}
void EchoCanceller::pushFarEnd(const qint16 *pcm, int nsamples, int srcRate)
{
if (!m_d || !pcm || nsamples <= 0)
return;
QMutexLocker locker(&m_renderMutex);
if (srcRate > 0 && srcRate != m_sampleRate)
{
if (m_farSwr && m_farSwrRate != srcRate)
{
swr_free(&m_farSwr);
m_farSwrRate = 0;
}
if (!m_farSwr)
{
#if EC_HAVE_CH_LAYOUT
AVChannelLayout mono;
av_channel_layout_default(&mono, 1);
int ret = swr_alloc_set_opts2(&m_farSwr, &mono, AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S16, m_sampleRate,
&mono, AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S16, srcRate, 0, nullptr);
av_channel_layout_uninit(&mono);
if (ret < 0)
m_farSwr = nullptr;
#else
m_farSwr = swr_alloc_set_opts(nullptr, AV_CH_LAYOUT_MONO, AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S16, m_sampleRate,
AV_CH_LAYOUT_MONO, AV_SAMPLE_FMT_S16, srcRate, 0, nullptr);
#endif
if (m_farSwr && swr_init(m_farSwr) < 0)
swr_free(&m_farSwr);
if (!m_farSwr)
{
qWarning() << "Echo canceller: cannot resample" << srcRate << "Hz far end to"
<< m_sampleRate << "Hz - echo cancellation will not work";
return;
}
m_farSwrRate = srcRate;
qDebug() << "Echo canceller: far end is" << srcRate << "Hz, resampling to" << m_sampleRate << "Hz";
}
// Upper bound on what this many input samples can become, plus
// whatever the converter is still holding from last time.
int room = (int)av_rescale_rnd(swr_get_delay(m_farSwr, srcRate) + nsamples,
m_sampleRate, srcRate, AV_ROUND_UP);
if (room <= 0)
return;
m_farScratch.resize(room);
uint8_t *out[1] = { (uint8_t *)m_farScratch.data() };
const uint8_t *in[1] = { (const uint8_t *)pcm };
int got = swr_convert(m_farSwr, out, room, in, nsamples);
if (got <= 0)
return;
pcm = m_farScratch.constData();
nsamples = got;
}
int base = m_farPending.size();
m_farPending.resize(base + nsamples);
memcpy(m_farPending.data() + base, pcm, nsamples * sizeof(qint16));
double farEnergy = 0.0;
int blocks = m_farPending.size() / m_frameSize;
for (int b = 0; b < blocks; b++)
{
qint16 *farBlock = m_farPending.data() + b * m_frameSize;
for (int i = 0; i < m_frameSize; i++)
farEnergy += double(farBlock[i]) * double(farBlock[i]);
// In place: the module is happy for source and destination to be the
// same buffer, and nothing downstream wants the processed render
// signal - handing it over is only how AEC3 learns what is about to
// come back through the microphone.
m_d->apm->ProcessReverseStream(farBlock, m_d->stream, m_d->stream, farBlock);
}
if (blocks > 0)
{
m_farPending.remove(0, blocks * m_frameSize);
QMutexLocker statLocker(&m_statMutex);
m_farEnergy = m_farEnergy * 0.95 + (farEnergy / (blocks * m_frameSize)) * 0.05;
m_renderBlocks += blocks;
}
}
void EchoCanceller::processNearEnd(qint16 *pcm, int nsamples)
{
if (!m_d || !pcm || nsamples < m_frameSize)
return;
double nearEnergy = 0.0;
int blocks = nsamples / m_frameSize;
{
QMutexLocker locker(&m_captureMutex);
for (int b = 0; b < blocks; b++)
{
// Not called "near" - windef.h still defines that as an empty
// macro on the mingw-w64 builds.
qint16 *nearBlock = pcm + b * m_frameSize;
for (int i = 0; i < m_frameSize; i++)
nearEnergy += double(nearBlock[i]) * double(nearBlock[i]);
m_d->apm->ProcessStream(nearBlock, m_d->stream, m_d->stream, nearBlock);
}
}
// At least one whole block, guaranteed by the nsamples check on entry.
const int used = blocks * m_frameSize;
bool report = false;
{
QMutexLocker statLocker(&m_statMutex);
// Exponential forgetting, so the levels reflect the last few seconds
// rather than the whole call. Per sample, so a change in the capture
// path's block size does not move them.
m_nearEnergy = m_nearEnergy * 0.95 + (nearEnergy / used) * 0.05;
m_processedSamples += used;
m_captureBlocks += blocks;
if (m_processedSamples >= m_nextReportSamples)
{
m_nextReportSamples = m_processedSamples + qint64(m_sampleRate) * kReportIntervalSec;
report = true;
}
}
// Outside the lock: the accessors below take it themselves, and qDebug()
// does I/O that has no business happening with a mutex held on the
// capture thread. The values can shift by one block in between, which
// does not matter for a log line.
if (report)
{
int delayMs = 0;
double erleDb = 0.0;
double erlDb = 0.0;
bool haveErl = false;
{
QMutexLocker locker(&m_captureMutex);
webrtc::AudioProcessingStats stats = m_d->apm->GetStatistics();
if (stats.delay_ms.has_value())
delayMs = *stats.delay_ms;
if (stats.echo_return_loss_enhancement.has_value())
erleDb = *stats.echo_return_loss_enhancement;
if (stats.echo_return_loss.has_value())
{
erlDb = *stats.echo_return_loss;
haveErl = true;
}
}
qint64 lead = 0;
{
QMutexLocker statLocker(&m_statMutex);
lead = m_renderBlocks - m_captureBlocks;
}
// erl says how strongly the speaker couples back into the microphone,
// which is whether there is anything worth cancelling at all. AEC3
// reports it negated (echo_remover.cc: -10*log10(erl)), so the more
// negative it is the weaker the coupling - a headset reads well down,
// speakers in a small room read close to zero.
//
// erle is how much of that coupling the filter is actually removing.
// It sits at its 0 dB floor (Erle::min = 1.f) until the filter
// converges, so a call that never leaves +0.2 dB is a call where the
// linear filter never got anywhere.
//
// The delay is what AEC3 has aligned the two streams at. Zero is not
// a delay: block_processor.cc reports 0 when the estimator has no
// value, so it means the filter is running unaligned and the erle
// beside it cannot be anything but the floor.
QString delayText = delayMs > 0
? QString("echo delay %1 ms").arg(delayMs)
: QStringLiteral("NOT ALIGNED");
QString erlText = haveErl
? QString("erl %1 dB").arg(erlDb, 0, 'f', 1)
: QStringLiteral("erl n/a");
qDebug("AEC: erle %+.1f dB %s mic %.1f dBFS far %.1f dBFS %s render lead %d ms",
erleDb, qPrintable(erlText), nearEndLevelDb(), farEndLevelDb(),
qPrintable(delayText), (int)(lead * 10)); // a block is 10ms, always
}
}
double EchoCanceller::erle()
{
if (!m_d)
return 0.0;
QMutexLocker locker(&m_captureMutex);
webrtc::AudioProcessingStats stats = m_d->apm->GetStatistics();
return stats.echo_return_loss_enhancement.has_value()
? *stats.echo_return_loss_enhancement
: 0.0;
}
// Mean square of 16 bit samples to dBFS, with a floor so digital silence
// prints as a number rather than -inf.
static double level_db(double meanSquare)
{
static const double kFullScale = 32768.0 * 32768.0;
if (meanSquare <= 0.0)
return -120.0;
double db = 10.0 * log10(meanSquare / kFullScale);
return db < -120.0 ? -120.0 : db;
}
double EchoCanceller::nearEndLevelDb()
{
QMutexLocker locker(&m_statMutex);
return level_db(m_nearEnergy);
}
double EchoCanceller::farEndLevelDb()
{
QMutexLocker locker(&m_statMutex);
return level_db(m_farEnergy);
}