Occasional crackling / voice artifacts

[inner phoenix]

Not sure honestly Steam Voice is a prety black box system

You get compressed voice data from Steam.exe and you decompress voice data via Steam.exe

All we are really doing is loading it into the back of a Streaming audio clip

so our Voice Stream script is just taking the bytes you pass in and passing that into a Unity steaming sound clip

poping or cliping usually is the result of values clipping

so that is usually caused by compression or decompression

which is all Steam side

The idea behind our "buffering" is just to let the system build up a bit of data so that the variability of latency can be hidden

it shouldn't introduce any artifacts

it could introduce drops of course if you have latency and data doesn't comein to the stream before the stream empties

in that case it will just add 0 as in silence

so you will hear broken or droped voice

[sudden gorge]

thanks for the clarification, increasing the bufferLength could help reduce the chances of drops like this?

[inner phoenix]

drops yes, all thats doing is building up more data before it starts playback

so it gives you more wiggle room on teh latency side of things