[LAU] Streaming low-latency bi-directional audio between Android 4.x and a Linux desktop

[Len Ovens]

On Sun, 3 Nov 2019, Stuart Longland wrote:

> I was wondering if someone knew of a tool that would enable me to
> connect my phone (running Android 4.1, I know this is old but it's what
> I have) over WiFi to my desktop (Ubuntu 18.04 LTS) or my laptop (Gentoo).

Mummble? There are more than one mummble clients avaiable for android and 
of course linux as well. I think mummble uses opus by default which is 5ms 
(or can be) and at least between desktops seems very instantaious. The 
android audio stack tends to be laggy, I think there is an alsa in there 
somewhere but the application only sees it through a higher level API 
which on most smart (cough) phones/tablets seems to introduce too much 
delay. Playing drums on the screen for example is too latent to be able to 
play with myself even. Hopefully your device is better.



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Len Ovens
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