Compatibility with M1 Mac 🍎 💻

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So far these seems to be the stepped involved

1. At the moment deepspeech-node-wrapper uses sox-bin as a dependency, and it seems like the binary is not compatible with M1 architecture, see issue Mac OS X M1 ArtskydJ/node-sox-bin#8
   1. maybe the module could be refactored deepspeech-node-wrapper/src/index.js to not use sox-bin but ffmpeg instead? 🤷‍♂️ 🤔 ❓
   2. for now might be easier to remove deepspeech-node-wrapper and bring it back later, perhaps with added support for Coqui 🐸 when their nod release becomes available.
2. possibly ffmpeg-static-electron binary might need updating to M1 - eg either the binary and/or the arch folder structure for electron arm64
3. ffprobe-static-electron
4. dialog can no longer be required from render remote process, only from main process, so need to use ipc
5. 2. electron needs to be update to version > 11
6. electron builder might need updating?
7. travis.org has changed their workflow by requiring to switch to travis.com, might be worth either migrating or switching to github actions.
8. ... ?

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• re enable dialog from render remote via ipc
• ffprobe-static-electron
• ffmpeg-static-electron
• Electron 11
• electron-builder M1, local 💻 build
• automatic build + release: Travis or Github actions
• deepspeech-node-wrapper/src/index.js ⬇️ (logic to hide for M1 machines as temp workaround)

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ffmpeg M1 binary at https://github.com/eugeneware/ffmpeg-static/blob/master/build/index.sh#L75

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addressed in PR #80

• Switched to github actions
• removed deepspeech for M1 macs while pockesphinx it's not compatible, might bring back later