Re: [SoX-users] sox with homebrew voip

[Jan S. <ha...@st...>]

On Aug 26 23:36:20, Shentino wrote:
> I'm using arecord + netcat to pipe voice to someone else using netcat
> + aplay, and I'm curious if there's a way to have sox do minimal
> filtering (removal of silence, possibly an anti-noise filter) with
> minimal latency.
> 
> I've already tried the buffer option but I seem to be stuck with at
> least a full second of latency.

What's the latency of 'arecord | netcat  ---->  netcat | aplay' itself

Why don't you make it 'rec | netcat  ---> netcat | play'
(or better yet, "rec | ssh ... 'play -t raw ... -'")
if you are gonna use sox anyway?

> Is latency inherent in using such a filter
> or is there an option I'm forgetting?

Hard to tell, as you didn't tell us any of your
actual command lines.