Hi,
i'm using a raspberry pi with Raspberry Pi OS Lite installed. I have installed the node-red environment and am using node-red-contrib-sox-utils. I tried to start streaming audio from an external USB sound card using sox-record node and at the same time play it back in the speakers. In general everything works fine, but from time to time i get the error: sox WARN alsa: under-run and i hear crackling in the speakers. Besides, there is some delay between the input (microphone) and output (speakers). When I set the sample-rate in sox-record to 16000, the delay is about 1s, but when I change it to 48000, there is practically no delay what i want. It probably has to do with some ALSA / SOX buffer. Is it possible to somehow set it up so that at the sample-rate 16000 there was not such a long delay?
If i set the number of channels to 1 in sox-record, then after starting the flow in the debug output it receives the information that the number of channels is 2
Input File : 'plughw:1,0' (alsa)
Channels : 2
Sample Rate : 48000
Precision : 16-bit
Sample Encoding: 16-bit Signed Integer PCM
would it be possible to use node sox-convert to convert the stream from the microphone (obtained with node sox-record) to the format, for example mp3 on the fly and then play it in the speakers so that there is the shortest possible delay between input and output?