correctly playing back audio for voice chat

i've got voice chat data coming through & decompressing correctly via steamworks, but i'm having a little trouble figuring out how to correctly play back the audio in Unity.

In a nutshell, i have a looping AudioClip continously playing, and I'm pasting voice chat snapshots of data that's come over the network into its buffer in what i think is the correct place.

i can hear voice chats, so I know it kind of works, but there's bugs - there's lots of small silent gaps in the audio, and sometimes you can hear old audio from the previous loops if sections of the buffer were not overwritten with silence.

my process feels kind of insane to me, and perhaps harder than it should be. maybe i'm overthinking this?

Does anyone have any insights here?

 

Hey.

You can create an AudioClip with a callback parameter that is called anytime data is read, you can consume with it the voice data that you receive. If you fill stuck with filling the data array directly you may try this approach.


https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/AudioClip.Create.html

 

Hey thanks, i switched to this approach and it's working quite a bit better now.

there's still a few hiccups in playback - it might either be network stuff, or just when my audio clip loops.