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Google I/O 2013 - High Performance Audio

Google for Developers · talk · Watch on YouTube

Audio & video engineeringSoftware performance & optimization

What it is

A Google I/O 2013 talk by Android audio engineers on why reliable, low-latency audio is hard on the platform. It covers problem areas across the stack, platform work underway and techniques apps can use.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Treated as the definitive explanation of Android's audio latency problem, showing it spans the entire stack.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2013, last 2018

What HN commenters said

  1. “is a must-watch”

    In-depth explanation of the challenges of Android audio latency

    on_and_off, 2015-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Android Audio Latency”

  2. “They gave a good talk at I/O on just audio latency”

    Google I/O talk focused on Android audio latency

    fidotron, 2014-02 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: Fiddlewax”

  3. “Google I/O 2013 did a pretty good talk on the problem and shows how there are problems across the entire stack.”

    Shows audio latency problems across the whole Android stack

    dottrap, 2015-04 · Recommendation · in “Android’s 10 Millisecond Problem explained”

  4. “It probably provides the best insight to the problem Google engineers were and probably is still facing”

    Insight into why Android high performance audio is hard

    Polyphonie, 2015-12 · Recommendation · in “Android Audio Latency”

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Topics: android, audio, latency, google io, mobile

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