From 665d26b6fb6e9b10da1416403ef6f23da0a4cb4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Horton <daveh@beachdognet.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2022 11:37:41 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] bugfix: continuous asr timer in gather should not start until
 transcript is received

---
 lib/tasks/gather.js | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/tasks/gather.js b/lib/tasks/gather.js
index bb7ce8a5..ff2f03f6 100644
--- a/lib/tasks/gather.js
+++ b/lib/tasks/gather.js
@@ -186,7 +186,8 @@ class TaskGather extends Task {
 
     const startListening = (cs, ep) => {
       this._startTimer();
-      if (this.isContinuousAsr && 0 === this.timeout) this._startAsrTimer();
+      // dont start asr timer until we have a transcription
+      //if (this.isContinuousAsr && 0 === this.timeout) this._startAsrTimer();
       if (this.input.includes('speech') && !this.listenDuringPrompt) {
         this._initSpeech(cs, ep)
           .then(() => {