Speex dev - May 2007 - Buffer size/rate woes

Hi All, I am trying to get speex working on the Mac and am running  
into issues.  I got the examples working, but am now trying to make  
speex, which expects 8000 Hz and 160 samples per buffer (320 bytes  
per buffer), work with the Mac's built-in audio recording, which uses  
either 11025, 22050, or 44100 Hz and 1024 samples per buffer (2048  
bytes per buffer).

I just need to know if there is a way to make speex run at say 11025  
Hz with maybe 512 (or other power of 2) samples per buffer.   
Otherwise there is going to be a lot of code handling remainders for  
each buffer and downsampling.

Also, does speex use a timer of any kind?  Or does it just process  
blocks as they are given?  I just mean for general encoding, not  
echoes, etc.

Thanx,

--Zack

You need two things:
1) Resampling -- which Speex does in the svn version
2) "re-buffer" your audio, i.e. manage the audio you get and send it
to
Speex in different chunks.

	Jean-Marc

zmorris@mac.com wrote:
> Hi All, I am trying to get speex working on the Mac and am running into
> issues.  I got the examples working, but am now trying to make speex,
> which expects 8000 Hz and 160 samples per buffer (320 bytes per buffer),
> work with the Mac's built-in audio recording, which uses either 11025,
> 22050, or 44100 Hz and 1024 samples per buffer (2048 bytes per buffer).
> 
> I just need to know if there is a way to make speex run at say 11025 Hz
> with maybe 512 (or other power of 2) samples per buffer.  Otherwise
> there is going to be a lot of code handling remainders for each buffer
> and downsampling.
> 
> Also, does speex use a timer of any kind?  Or does it just process
> blocks as they are given?  I just mean for general encoding, not echoes,
> etc.
> 
> Thanx,
> 
> --Zack
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>

Hello Zack:

Excuse me if I'm jumping into something completely wrongly, but ...

I'm doing something similar right now on the Mac working with G.729. 
I'm working on the decode end of the problem and interfacing with 
what the Mac developer community calls an Audio Unit (AU) to get to 
their D/A and speakers. So my code decodes the compressed file and 
streams the PCM into an AU that I configured with the frame size and 
rate I want and samples widths that I specify (in my case 16 bits). 
I'm using their default AU in output mode. I believe you would 
configure an AU in an input mode which would allow you to interface 
with some hardware sound input and give you the frame rate, number of 
samples, and sample widths that SPEEX wants.

I suggest that you check into 
<http://coreaudio-api@lists.apple.com/>coreaudio-api@lists.apple.<http://coreaudio-api@lists.apple.com/>com.
I have an active issue going back and forth right now with my 
scenario. Lots of very good help up there. You may have to subscribe 
to read or write the lists. Let me know if you have a problem with that.

Take care ... hope this helps.


At 01:46 AM 5/8/2007 -0600, zmorris@mac.com wrote:
>Hi All, I am trying to get speex working on the Mac and am running
>into issues.  I got the examples working, but am now trying to make
>speex, which expects 8000 Hz and 160 samples per buffer (320 bytes
>per buffer), work with the Mac's built-in audio recording, which uses
>either 11025, 22050, or 44100 Hz and 1024 samples per buffer (2048
>bytes per buffer).
>
>I just need to know if there is a way to make speex run at say 11025
>Hz with maybe 512 (or other power of 2) samples per buffer.
>Otherwise there is going to be a lot of code handling remainders for
>each buffer and downsampling.
>
>Also, does speex use a timer of any kind?  Or does it just process
>blocks as they are given?  I just mean for general encoding, not
>echoes, etc.
>
>Thanx,
>
>--Zack
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>Speex-dev mailing list
>Speex-dev@xiph.org
>http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/speex-dev
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