Use Gio.Subprocess

Add extra visual indication (widget color change during recording)

Author: QuantiusBenignus

extension.js

@@ -43,9 +43,18 @@ function enable() {
         settings,
         Meta.KeyBindingFlags.IGNORE_AUTOREPEAT,
         Shell.ActionMode.NORMAL,
-        () => {GLib.spawn_command_line_async(homeDir+"/"+asr_path);}
-    );
-
+		async() => { try {
+			siLabel.set_style_class_name('i-label');
+			const proc = Gio.Subprocess.new([homeDir+"/"+asr_path],
+				Gio.SubprocessFlags.NONE);
+			const success = await proc.wait_check_async(null);
+			//console.log(`Speech recognizer ${success ? 'succeeded' : 'failed'}`);
+			siLabel.set_style_class_name(success ? 'si-label' : 'e-label');
+			} catch (e) {
+			logError(e);
+			}
+		}
+		);
 }
 
 function disable() {

prefs.js

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ When the microphone icon disappears, the transcribed text can be pasted immediat
 * Edit the configuration section of the <b>wsi</b> script to match your environment, point to the Whisper model of choice, etc.\n\n \
 * Check the gschema.xml file for the invocation keyboard shortcut and modify the key combination if needed.\n \
  The schema then has to be recompiled with '<b>glib-compile-schemas schemas/</b>' from the command line in the extension folder.\n\n \
-* Note that depending on noise environment, the silence level may need to be adjusted in the '<b>sox</b>' command.\n\n \
+* Note that depending on noise environment, the silence threshold may need to be adjusted in the '<b>sox</b>' command.\n\n \
 More details and instructions on <a href='https://github.com/QuantiusBenignus/blurt'>GitHub</a>\n \
 2024, \u{00A9}<a href='https://github.com/QuantiusBenignus'>Quantius Benignus</a>"  );
 		textL.set_name("i-label");

stylesheet.css

@@ -11,6 +11,15 @@
 }
 
 .i-label {
+    color: yellow;
     font-size: 16px;
-    font-weight: bold;
+    padding: 2px;
+    border-radius: 2px;
+}
+
+.e-label {
+    color: red;
+    font-size: 16px;
+    padding: 2px;
+    border-radius: 2px;
 }