diff --git a/.github/scripts/node-addon/README-optional.md b/.github/scripts/node-addon/README-optional.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..152a8984
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/scripts/node-addon/README-optional.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# Introduction
+
+Please see [sherpa-onnx-node](https://www.npmjs.com/package/sherpa-onnx-node)
diff --git a/.github/scripts/node-addon/README.md b/.github/scripts/node-addon/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..cd776968
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/scripts/node-addon/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# Introduction
+
+Please see
+https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx/blob/master/nodejs-addon-examples/README.md
+for usages.
+
+
+||Method|Support multiple threads|Minimum required node version|
+|---|---|---|---|
+|this package| https://github.com/nodejs/node-addon-api | Yes | v10|
+|https://www.npmjs.com/package/sherpa-onnx| WebAssembly | No | v18|
diff --git a/.github/scripts/node-addon/index.js b/.github/scripts/node-addon/index.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..20141ac6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/scripts/node-addon/index.js
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+module.exports = require('./sherpa-onnx.node');
diff --git a/.github/scripts/node-addon/notes.md b/.github/scripts/node-addon/notes.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..07344bdd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/scripts/node-addon/notes.md
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# Introduction
+
+See also
+
+  - https://github.com/WonderInventions/node-webrtc/blob/develop/package.json
+  - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15176082/npm-package-json-os-specific-dependency
+  - https://github.com/WonderInventions/node-webrtc/blob/develop/lib/binding.js
+  - cross-compiling https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/829#issuecomment-665527032
diff --git a/.github/scripts/node-addon/package-optional.json b/.github/scripts/node-addon/package-optional.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6c0edf8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/scripts/node-addon/package-optional.json
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+{
+  "name": "sherpa-onnx-PLATFORM-ARCH",
+  "version": "SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION",
+  "description": "Speech-to-text and text-to-speech using Next-gen Kaldi without internet connection",
+  "main": "index.js",
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+  },
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx.git"
+  },
+  "keywords": [
+    "speech to text",
+    "text to speech",
+    "transcription",
+    "real-time speech recognition",
+    "without internet connection",
+    "embedded systems",
+    "open source",
+    "zipformer",
+    "asr",
+    "tts",
+    "stt",
+    "c++",
+    "onnxruntime",
+    "onnx",
+    "ai",
+    "next-gen kaldi",
+    "offline",
+    "privacy",
+    "open source",
+    "vad",
+    "speaker id",
+    "language id",
+    "node-addon-api",
+    "streaming speech recognition",
+    "speech",
+    "recognition"
+  ],
+  "author": "The next-gen Kaldi team",
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "bugs": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx/issues"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx#readme",
+   "os": [
+    "PLATFORM"
+  ],
+  "cpu": [
+    "ARCH"
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/.github/scripts/node-addon/package.json b/.github/scripts/node-addon/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f26f4dd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/scripts/node-addon/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+{
+  "name": "sherpa-onnx-node",
+  "version": "SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION",
+  "description": "Speech-to-text and text-to-speech using Next-gen Kaldi without internet connection",
+  "main": "sherpa-onnx.js",
+  "scripts": {
+    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
+  },
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx.git"
+  },
+  "keywords": [
+    "speech to text",
+    "text to speech",
+    "transcription",
+    "real-time speech recognition",
+    "without internet connection",
+    "embedded systems",
+    "open source",
+    "zipformer",
+    "asr",
+    "tts",
+    "stt",
+    "c++",
+    "onnxruntime",
+    "onnx",
+    "ai",
+    "next-gen kaldi",
+    "offline",
+    "privacy",
+    "open source",
+    "vad",
+    "speaker id",
+    "language id",
+    "node-addon-api",
+    "streaming speech recognition",
+    "speech",
+    "recognition"
+  ],
+  "author": "The next-gen Kaldi team",
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "bugs": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx/issues"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx#readme",
+  "optionalDependencies": {
+    "sherpa-onnx-darwin-arm64": "^SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION",
+    "sherpa-onnx-darwin-x64": "^SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION",
+    "sherpa-onnx-linux-x64": "^SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/.github/scripts/node-addon/run.sh b/.github/scripts/node-addon/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..219cdfe4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/scripts/node-addon/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+sherpa_onnx_dir=$PWD
+echo "sherpa_onnx_dir: $sherpa_onnx_dir"
+
+src_dir=$sherpa_onnx_dir/.github/scripts/node-addon
+
+platform=$(node -p "require('os').platform()")
+arch=$(node -p "require('os').arch()")
+
+SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION=$(grep "SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION" ./CMakeLists.txt  | cut -d " " -f 2  | cut -d '"' -f 2)
+echo "SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION $SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION"
+
+if [ -z $owner ]; then
+  owner=k2-fsa
+fi
+
+sed -i.bak s/SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION/$SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION/g $src_dir/package-optional.json
+sed -i.bak s/k2-fsa/$owner/g $src_dir/package-optional.json
+sed -i.bak s/PLATFORM/$platform/g $src_dir/package-optional.json
+sed -i.bak s/ARCH/$arch/g $src_dir/package-optional.json
+
+git diff $src_dir/package-optional.json
+
+dst=$sherpa_onnx_dir/sherpa-onnx-node
+mkdir -p $dst
+
+cp $src_dir/package-optional.json $dst/package.json
+cp $src_dir/index.js $dst/
+cp $src_dir/README-optional.md $dst/README.md
+
+cp -fv build/install/lib/lib* $dst/ || true
+cp -fv build/install/lib/*dll $dst/ || true
+
+cp scripts/node-addon-api/build/Release/sherpa-onnx.node $dst/
+
+ls $dst
diff --git a/.github/scripts/test-nodejs-addon-npm.sh b/.github/scripts/test-nodejs-addon-npm.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..ab6fd572
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/scripts/test-nodejs-addon-npm.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -ex
+
+d=nodejs-addon-examples
+echo "dir: $d"
+cd $d
+npm install --verbose
+git status
+ls -lh
+ls -lh node_modules
+
+export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/node_modules/sherpa-onnx-darwin-x64:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
+export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/node_modules/sherpa-onnx-darwin-arm64:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/node_modules/sherpa-onnx-linux-x64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+
+curl -SL -O https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx/releases/download/asr-models/sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-bilingual-zh-en-2023-02-20.tar.bz2
+tar xvf sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-bilingual-zh-en-2023-02-20.tar.bz2
+rm sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-bilingual-zh-en-2023-02-20.tar.bz2
+
+node test_asr_streaming_transducer.js
+
+rm -rf sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-bilingual-zh-en-2023-02-20
diff --git a/.github/workflows/npm-addon-linux-x64.yaml b/.github/workflows/npm-addon-linux-x64.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3578cab8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/npm-addon-linux-x64.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+name: npm-addon-linux-x64
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+concurrency:
+  group: npm-addon-linux-x64-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  id-token: write
+
+jobs:
+  npm-addon-linux-x64:
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-latest]
+        python-version: ["3.8"]
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Setup Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
+
+      - name: Display node version
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          node --version
+
+      - name: Build sherpa-onnx
+        uses: addnab/docker-run-action@v3
+        with:
+            image: quay.io/pypa/manylinux2014_x86_64
+            options: |
+              --volume ${{ github.workspace }}/:/shared/
+            shell: bash
+            run: |
+              uname -a
+              gcc --version
+              cmake --version
+              cd /shared
+
+              mkdir build
+              cd build
+              cmake \
+                -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=./install \
+                -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
+                -DSHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_WEBSOCKET=OFF \
+                -DSHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_PORTAUDIO=OFF \
+                -DSHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_BINARY=OFF \
+                ..
+              make -j install
+
+      - name: Build sherpa-onnx node-addon
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PWD/build/install:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+          sudo mkdir /shared
+          sudo ln -s $PWD/build /shared/
+
+          ls -lh /shared/build
+
+          pkg-config --cflags sherpa-onnx
+          pkg-config --libs sherpa-onnx
+
+          cd scripts/node-addon-api/
+
+          npm i
+
+          ./node_modules/.bin/node-gyp configure build --verbose
+
+      - name: Prepare for publish
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PWD/build/install:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+
+          owner=${{ github.repository_owner }}
+          export owner
+
+
+          echo "---"
+          ls -lh build/install/lib/
+          sudo chown -R runner ./build
+          echo "---"
+          ls -lh build/install/lib/
+          echo "---"
+
+          # find build/install/lib/ -maxdepth 1 -type l
+          # find build/install/lib/ -maxdepth 1 -type l -delete
+          #
+          # echo "---"
+          # ls -lh build/install/lib/
+
+          .github/scripts/node-addon/run.sh
+
+      - name: Display files to be published
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          ls -lh ./sherpa-onnx-node
+
+      - name: Publish
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          cd ./sherpa-onnx-node
+          npm install
+          npm ci
+          # see https://docs.npmjs.com/generating-provenance-statements
+          npm publish --provenance --access public
diff --git a/.github/workflows/npm-addon-macos.yaml b/.github/workflows/npm-addon-macos.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..96e7dd3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/npm-addon-macos.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+name: npm-addon-macos
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+concurrency:
+  group: npm-addon-macos-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  id-token: write
+
+jobs:
+  npm-addon-macos:
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        os: [macos-11, macos-14]
+        python-version: ["3.8"]
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Setup Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
+
+      - name: Display node version
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          node --version
+
+      - name: ccache
+        uses: hendrikmuhs/ccache-action@v1.2
+        with:
+          key: ${{ matrix.os }}-release-shared
+
+      - name: Build sherpa-onnx
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          export CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache
+          export PATH="/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/opt/ccache/libexec:$PATH"
+
+          mkdir build
+          cd build
+          cmake \
+            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=./install \
+            -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
+            -DSHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_WEBSOCKET=OFF \
+            -DSHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_PORTAUDIO=OFF \
+            -DSHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_BINARY=OFF \
+            ..
+          make -j install
+
+
+
+      - name: Build sherpa-onnx node-addon
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PWD/build/install:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+
+          pkg-config --cflags sherpa-onnx
+          pkg-config --libs sherpa-onnx
+
+          cd scripts/node-addon-api/
+
+          npm i
+
+          ./node_modules/.bin/node-gyp configure build --verbose
+
+      - name: Prepare for publish
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PWD/build/install:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+
+          owner=${{ github.repository_owner }}
+          export owner
+
+
+          ls -lh build/install/lib/
+          echo "---"
+
+          # find build/install/lib/ -maxdepth 1 -type l
+          # find build/install/lib/ -maxdepth 1 -type l -delete
+
+          # echo "---"
+          # ls -lh build/install/lib/
+
+          .github/scripts/node-addon/run.sh
+
+      - name: Display files to be published
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          ls -lh ./sherpa-onnx-node
+
+      - name: Publish
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          cd ./sherpa-onnx-node
+          npm install
+          npm ci
+          # see https://docs.npmjs.com/generating-provenance-statements
+          npm publish --provenance --access public
diff --git a/.github/workflows/npm-addon.yaml b/.github/workflows/npm-addon.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..45067180
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/npm-addon.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+name: npm-addon
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+concurrency:
+  group: npm-addon-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  id-token: write
+
+jobs:
+  npm-addon:
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        os: [ubuntu-latest]
+        python-version: ["3.8"]
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - name: Setup Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
+
+      - name: Display node version
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          node --version
+
+      - name: ccache
+        uses: hendrikmuhs/ccache-action@v1.2
+        with:
+          key: ${{ matrix.os }}-release-shared
+
+      - name: Prepare for publish
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          owner=${{ github.repository_owner }}
+          export owner
+
+          SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION=$(grep "SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION" ./CMakeLists.txt  | cut -d " " -f 2  | cut -d '"' -f 2)
+          echo "SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION $SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION"
+
+          src_dir=.github/scripts/node-addon
+          sed -i.bak s/SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION/$SHERPA_ONNX_VERSION/g $src_dir/package.json
+          sed -i.bak s/k2-fsa/$owner/g $src_dir/package.json
+
+          dst=sherpa-onnx-node
+          mkdir $dst
+          cp $src_dir/package.json $dst/
+          cp $src_dir/README.md $dst/
+          cp scripts/node-addon-api/lib/*.js $dst/
+
+      - name: Display files to be published
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          ls -lh ./sherpa-onnx-node
+
+      - name: Publish
+        shell: bash
+        env:
+          NODE_AUTH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.NPM_TOKEN }}
+        run: |
+          cd ./sherpa-onnx-node
+          npm install
+          npm ci
+          # see https://docs.npmjs.com/generating-provenance-statements
+          npm publish --provenance --access public
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-nodejs-addon-api.yaml b/.github/workflows/test-nodejs-addon-api.yaml
index 4ceba0f9..49d3b717 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-nodejs-addon-api.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-nodejs-addon-api.yaml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ on:
     branches:
       - master
     paths:
-      - '.github/workflows/test-node-addon-api.yaml'
+      - '.github/workflows/test-nodejs-addon-api.yaml'
       - 'CMakeLists.txt'
       - 'cmake/**'
       - 'sherpa-onnx/csrc/*'
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ on:
     branches:
       - master
     paths:
-      - '.github/workflows/test-node-addon-api.yaml'
+      - '.github/workflows/test-nodejs-addon-api.yaml'
       - 'CMakeLists.txt'
       - 'cmake/**'
       - 'sherpa-onnx/csrc/*'
@@ -34,12 +34,13 @@ permissions:
 
 jobs:
   test-node-addon-api:
-    name: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    name: ${{ matrix.os }} ${{ matrix.node-version }}
     runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
-        os: [macos-latest, macos-14]
+        os: [macos-11, macos-14, ubuntu-20.04, ubuntu-22.04]
+        node-version: ["16", "17", "18", "19", "21", "22"]
         python-version: ["3.8"]
 
     steps:
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
         with:
           registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
+          node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
 
       - name: Display node version
         shell: bash
@@ -69,9 +71,18 @@ jobs:
       - name: Build sherpa-onnx
         shell: bash
         run: |
+          export CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_LAUNCHER=ccache
+          export PATH="/usr/lib/ccache:/usr/local/opt/ccache/libexec:$PATH"
+
           mkdir build
           cd build
-          cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/sherpa-onnx -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON ..
+          cmake \
+            -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/tmp/sherpa-onnx \
+            -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
+            -DSHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_WEBSOCKET=OFF \
+            -DSHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_PORTAUDIO=OFF \
+            -DSHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_BINARY=OFF \
+            ..
           make -j
           make install
 
@@ -87,8 +98,6 @@ jobs:
           pkg-config --cflags sherpa-onnx
           pkg-config --libs sherpa-onnx
 
-          a=$(pkg-config --cflags sherpa-onnx);a=${a:2};echo $a
-
           npm i
 
           ./node_modules/.bin/node-gyp configure build --verbose
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-nodejs-addon-npm.yaml b/.github/workflows/test-nodejs-addon-npm.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8f54c5af
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-nodejs-addon-npm.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+name: test-node-addon-npm
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - master
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/test-nodejs-addon-npm.yaml'
+      - 'CMakeLists.txt'
+      - 'cmake/**'
+      - 'sherpa-onnx/csrc/*'
+      - 'sherpa-onnx/c-api/*'
+      - 'scripts/node-addon-api/**'
+      - 'scripts/node-addon-api/*.js'
+      - 'nodejs-addon-examples/package.json'
+
+  pull_request:
+    branches:
+      - master
+    paths:
+      - '.github/workflows/test-nodejs-addon-npm.yaml'
+      - 'CMakeLists.txt'
+      - 'cmake/**'
+      - 'sherpa-onnx/csrc/*'
+      - 'sherpa-onnx/c-api/*'
+      - 'scripts/node-addon-api/*.js'
+      - 'nodejs-addon-examples/package.json'
+
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+concurrency:
+  group: test-node-addon-npm-${{ github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  test-node-addon-npm:
+    name: ${{ matrix.os }} node v${{ matrix.node-version }}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        os: [macos-11, macos-14, ubuntu-20.04, ubuntu-22.04]
+        node-version: ["16", "17", "18", "19", "21", "22"]
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          registry-url: 'https://registry.npmjs.org'
+          node-version: ${{ matrix.node-version }}
+
+      - name: Display node version
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          node --version
+
+      - name: Run tests
+        shell: bash
+        run: |
+          .github/scripts/test-nodejs-addon-npm.sh
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 99336706..f0fdb858 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -266,6 +266,7 @@ endif()
 add_subdirectory(sherpa-onnx)
 
 if(SHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_C_API AND SHERPA_ONNX_ENABLE_BINARY)
+  set(SHERPA_ONNX_PKG_WITH_CARGS "-lcargs")
   add_subdirectory(c-api-examples)
 endif()
 
diff --git a/cmake/sherpa-onnx-no-tts.pc.in b/cmake/sherpa-onnx-no-tts.pc.in
index df193043..4637b6ca 100644
--- a/cmake/sherpa-onnx-no-tts.pc.in
+++ b/cmake/sherpa-onnx-no-tts.pc.in
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ Cflags: -I"${includedir}"
 # Note: -lcargs is required only for the following file
 # https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx/blob/master/c-api-examples/decode-file-c-api.c
 # We add it here so that users don't need to specify -lcargs when compiling decode-file-c-api.c
-Libs: -L"${libdir}" -lsherpa-onnx-c-api -lsherpa-onnx-core -lkaldi-decoder-core -lsherpa-onnx-kaldifst-core -lsherpa-onnx-fst -lkaldi-native-fbank-core -lcargs -lonnxruntime -Wl,-rpath,${libdir} @SHERPA_ONNX_PKG_CONFIG_EXTRA_LIBS@
+Libs: -L"${libdir}" -lsherpa-onnx-c-api -lsherpa-onnx-core -lkaldi-decoder-core -lsherpa-onnx-kaldifst-core -lsherpa-onnx-fst -lkaldi-native-fbank-core -lonnxruntime -Wl,-rpath,${libdir} @SHERPA_ONNX_PKG_WITH_CARGS@ @SHERPA_ONNX_PKG_CONFIG_EXTRA_LIBS@
diff --git a/cmake/sherpa-onnx.pc.in b/cmake/sherpa-onnx.pc.in
index 0870f3ae..fd37eeeb 100644
--- a/cmake/sherpa-onnx.pc.in
+++ b/cmake/sherpa-onnx.pc.in
@@ -13,4 +13,4 @@ Cflags: -I"${includedir}"
 # Note: -lcargs is required only for the following file
 # https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx/blob/master/c-api-examples/decode-file-c-api.c
 # We add it here so that users don't need to specify -lcargs when compiling decode-file-c-api.c
-Libs: -L"${libdir}" -lsherpa-onnx-c-api -lsherpa-onnx-core -lkaldi-decoder-core -lsherpa-onnx-kaldifst-core -lsherpa-onnx-fstfar -lsherpa-onnx-fst -lkaldi-native-fbank-core -lpiper_phonemize -lespeak-ng -lucd -lcargs -lonnxruntime -Wl,-rpath,${libdir} @SHERPA_ONNX_PKG_CONFIG_EXTRA_LIBS@
+Libs: -L"${libdir}" -lsherpa-onnx-c-api -lsherpa-onnx-core -lkaldi-decoder-core -lsherpa-onnx-kaldifst-core -lsherpa-onnx-fstfar -lsherpa-onnx-fst -lkaldi-native-fbank-core -lpiper_phonemize -lespeak-ng -lucd -lonnxruntime -Wl,-rpath,${libdir} @SHERPA_ONNX_PKG_WITH_CARGS@ @SHERPA_ONNX_PKG_CONFIG_EXTRA_LIBS@
diff --git a/nodejs-addon-examples/README.md b/nodejs-addon-examples/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..28dd0ff0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nodejs-addon-examples/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Introduction
+
+Note: You need `Node >= 10`.
+
+This repo contains examples for NodeJS.
+It uses [node-addon-api](https://github.com/nodejs/node-addon-api) to wrap
+`sherpa-onnx` for NodeJS and it supports multiple threads.
+
+Note: [../nodejs-examples](../nodejs-examples) uses WebAssembly to wrap
+`sherpa-onnx` for NodeJS and it does not support multiple threads.
+
+Before you continue, please first run
+
+```bash
+npm install
+
+# For macOS x64
+export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/node_modules/sherpa-onnx-darwin-x64:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
+
+# For macOS arm64
+export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/node_modules/sherpa-onnx-darwin-arm64:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH
+
+# For Linux x64
+export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/node_modules/sherpa-onnx-linux-x64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+```
+
+
+## Streaming speech recognition with zipformer transducer
+```bash
+wget https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx/releases/download/asr-models/sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-bilingual-zh-en-2023-02-20.tar.bz2
+tar xvf sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-bilingual-zh-en-2023-02-20.tar.bz2
+rm sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-bilingual-zh-en-2023-02-20.tar.bz2
+
+```
diff --git a/nodejs-addon-examples/package.json b/nodejs-addon-examples/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d69336d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nodejs-addon-examples/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+  "dependencies": {
+    "sherpa-onnx-node": "*",
+    "perf_hooks": "*"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/nodejs-addon-examples/test_asr_streaming_transducer.js b/nodejs-addon-examples/test_asr_streaming_transducer.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a92c9aca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nodejs-addon-examples/test_asr_streaming_transducer.js
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+// Copyright (c)  2024  Xiaomi Corporation
+const sherpa_onnx = require('sherpa-onnx-node');
+const performance = require('perf_hooks').performance;
+
+
+// Please download test files from
+// https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx/releases/tag/asr-models
+const config = {
+  'featConfig': {
+    'sampleRate': 16000,
+    'featureDim': 80,
+  },
+  'modelConfig': {
+    'transducer': {
+      'encoder':
+          './sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-bilingual-zh-en-2023-02-20/encoder-epoch-99-avg-1.onnx',
+      'decoder':
+          './sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-bilingual-zh-en-2023-02-20/decoder-epoch-99-avg-1.onnx',
+      'joiner':
+          './sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-bilingual-zh-en-2023-02-20/joiner-epoch-99-avg-1.onnx',
+    },
+    'tokens':
+        './sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-bilingual-zh-en-2023-02-20/tokens.txt',
+    'numThreads': 2,
+    'provider': 'cpu',
+    'debug': 1,
+    'modelType': 'zipformer',
+  }
+};
+
+const waveFilename =
+    './sherpa-onnx-streaming-zipformer-bilingual-zh-en-2023-02-20/test_wavs/0.wav';
+
+const recognizer = new sherpa_onnx.OnlineRecognizer(config);
+console.log('Started')
+let start = performance.now();
+const stream = recognizer.createStream();
+const wave = sherpa_onnx.readWave(waveFilename);
+stream.acceptWaveform(wave.samples, wave.sampleRate);
+
+const tailPadding = new Float32Array(wave.sampleRate * 0.4);
+stream.acceptWaveform(tailPadding, wave.sampleRate);
+
+while (recognizer.isReady(stream)) {
+  recognizer.decode(stream);
+}
+result = recognizer.getResult(stream)
+let stop = performance.now();
+console.log('Done')
+
+const elapsed_seconds = (stop - start) / 1000;
+const duration = wave.samples.length / wave.sampleRate;
+const real_time_factor = elapsed_seconds / duration;
+console.log('Wave duration', duration.toFixed(3), 'secodns')
+console.log('Elapsed', elapsed_seconds.toFixed(3), 'secodns')
+console.log('RTF', real_time_factor.toFixed(3))
+console.log('result', result.text)
diff --git a/nodejs-examples/README.md b/nodejs-examples/README.md
index 4c3df2a6..9f6ac9b5 100644
--- a/nodejs-examples/README.md
+++ b/nodejs-examples/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,15 @@
 # Introduction
 
+Note: You need `Node >= 18`.
+
 This directory contains nodejs examples for [sherpa-onnx](https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx).
 
+It uses WebAssembly to wrap `sherpa-onnx` for NodeJS and it does not support multiple threads.
+
+Note: [../nodejs-addon-examples](../nodejs-addon-examples) uses
+[node-addon-api](https://github.com/nodejs/node-addon-api) to wrap
+`sherpa-onnx` for NodeJS and it supports multiple threads.
+
 Before you continue, please first run
 
 ```bash
@@ -13,7 +21,6 @@ npm i
 In the following, we describe how to use [sherpa-onnx](https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx)
 for text-to-speech and speech-to-text.
 
-Note: You need `Node >= 18`.
 
 # Text-to-speech
 
diff --git a/scripts/node-addon-api/README.md b/scripts/node-addon-api/README.md
index 6ed366ea..f9b3cf0b 100644
--- a/scripts/node-addon-api/README.md
+++ b/scripts/node-addon-api/README.md
@@ -1,3 +1,23 @@
 # Introduction
 
 This folder contains `node-addon-api` wrapper for `sherpa-onnx`.
+
+Caution: This folder is for developer only.
+
+## Usage
+
+```bash
+git clone https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx
+cd sherpa-onnx
+mkdir build
+cd build
+cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=./install -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON ..
+make -j install
+export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PWD/install:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
+cd ../scripts/node-addon-api/
+
+./node_modules/.bin/node-gyp build --verbose
+
+# see test/test_asr_streaming_transducer.js
+# for usages
+```
diff --git a/scripts/node-addon-api/binding.gyp b/scripts/node-addon-api/binding.gyp
index 1294188b..b54cc95e 100644
--- a/scripts/node-addon-api/binding.gyp
+++ b/scripts/node-addon-api/binding.gyp
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   'targets': [
     {
-      'target_name': 'sherpa-onnx-node-addon-api-native',
+      'target_name': 'sherpa-onnx',
       'sources': [
         'src/sherpa-onnx-node-addon-api.cc',
         'src/streaming-asr.cc',
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
       ],
       'include_dirs': [
         "<!@(node -p \"require('node-addon-api').include\")",
-        "<!@(a=$(pkg-config --cflags sherpa-onnx);echo ${a:2})"
+        "<!@(pkg-config --variable=includedir sherpa-onnx)"
       ],
       'dependencies': ["<!(node -p \"require('node-addon-api').gyp\")"],
       'cflags!': [
diff --git a/scripts/node-addon-api/lib/addon.js b/scripts/node-addon-api/lib/addon.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d5745b28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/node-addon-api/lib/addon.js
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+const os = require('os');
+const platform_arch = `${os.platform()}-${os.arch()}`;
+const possible_paths = [
+  '../build/Release/sherpa-onnx.node',
+  '../build/Debug/sherpa-onnx.node',
+  `./node_modules/sherpa-onnx-${platform_arch}/sherpa-onnx.node`,
+  `../sherpa-onnx-${platform_arch}/sherpa-onnx.node`,
+];
+
+let found = false;
+for (const p of possible_paths) {
+  try {
+    module.exports = require(p);
+    found = true;
+    break;
+  } catch (error) {
+    // do nothing; try the next option
+    ;
+  }
+}
+
+if (!found) {
+  let msg =
+      `Could not find sherpa-onnx. Tried\n\n  ${possible_paths.join('\n  ')}\n`
+  if (os.platform() == 'darwin' && process.env.DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH &&
+      !process.env.DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH.includes(
+          `node_modules/sherpa-onnx-${platform_arch}`)) {
+    msg +=
+        'Please remeber to set the following environment variable and try again:\n';
+
+    msg += `export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=${
+        process.env.PWD}/node_modules/sherpa-onnx-${platform_arch}`;
+
+    msg += ':$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH\n';
+  }
+
+  if (os.platform() == 'linux' && process.env.LD_LIBRARY_PATH &&
+      !process.env.LD_LIBRARY_PATH.includes(
+          `node_modules/sherpa-onnx-${platform_arch}`)) {
+    msg +=
+        'Please remeber to set the following environment variable and try again:\n';
+
+    msg += `export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${
+        process.env.PWD}/node_modules/sherpa-onnx-${platform_arch}`;
+
+    msg += ':$LD_LIBRARY_PATH\n';
+  }
+
+  throw new Error(msg)
+}
diff --git a/scripts/node-addon-api/lib/sherpa-onnx.js b/scripts/node-addon-api/lib/sherpa-onnx.js
index cea0590c..407118ec 100644
--- a/scripts/node-addon-api/lib/sherpa-onnx.js
+++ b/scripts/node-addon-api/lib/sherpa-onnx.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-const addon = require('bindings')('sherpa-onnx-node-addon-api-native');
+const addon = require('./addon.js')
 const streaming_asr = require('./streaming-asr.js');
 
 module.exports = {
diff --git a/scripts/node-addon-api/lib/streaming-asr.js b/scripts/node-addon-api/lib/streaming-asr.js
index dc3b52f7..e08752d9 100644
--- a/scripts/node-addon-api/lib/streaming-asr.js
+++ b/scripts/node-addon-api/lib/streaming-asr.js
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-const addon = require('bindings')('sherpa-onnx-node-addon-api-native');
+const addon = require('./addon.js');
 
 class OnlineStream {
   constructor(handle) {
diff --git a/scripts/node-addon-api/package.json b/scripts/node-addon-api/package.json
index 233c7548..1d2e0cc8 100644
--- a/scripts/node-addon-api/package.json
+++ b/scripts/node-addon-api/package.json
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "node-addon-api": "^1.1.0",
     "bindings": "^1.5.0",
-    "node-gyp": "^10.1.0"
+    "perf_hooks": "*",
+    "node-gyp": "^8.3.0"
   },
   "scripts": {
     "test": "node --napi-modules ./test/test_binding.js"
diff --git a/scripts/node-addon-api/test/test_asr_streaming_transducer.js b/scripts/node-addon-api/test/test_asr_streaming_transducer.js
index e61ba94f..67684993 100644
--- a/scripts/node-addon-api/test/test_asr_streaming_transducer.js
+++ b/scripts/node-addon-api/test/test_asr_streaming_transducer.js
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 // Copyright (c)  2024  Xiaomi Corporation
 const sherpa_onnx = require('../lib/sherpa-onnx.js');
+const performance = require('perf_hooks').performance;
 
+// Please download test files from
+// https://github.com/k2-fsa/sherpa-onnx/releases/tag/asr-models
 const config = {
   'featConfig': {
     'sampleRate': 16000,