🔒 Efficient way to wait until something is available in Queue.

[warm lintel]

One python thread is taksed with adding audio into a queue for processing.

while True:
    if not audio_queue.empty():
        audio_chunk = audio_queue.get()
        vad_process(audio_chunk)
    else:
        time.sleep(0.01)

The above is obviously inefficient in resource usage to be constantly checking the queue in realtime.

try:
    audio_chunk = audio_queue.get(timeout=1)
    custom_vad(audio_chunk)
except queue.Empty:
    continue

Is this may be more efficient, but it doesnt seem like the most elegant way to handle waiting for a queue.

Suggestions for a recommended way of handling this?

[bronze minnow]

@warm lintel

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[fiery forum]

U could try to call this whenever a song ends or something like that?

[warm lintel]

The audio chunks is constantly being streamed from a microphone

I need a queue for sometimes where it takes longer than necessary to process each chunk

[bronze minnow]

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