Voice choppy (help) - BigBlueBall

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July 30, 2004 at 3:27 am #9091

Melodeath
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Everyone in the voice chats tells me that when I press talk, whatever I’m doing sounds choppy. Is this caused by internet connection? I don’t know why mine would be choppy, I have DSL.

July 30, 2004 at 6:12 am #75266

EliteNick
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Ok, well I am on 56k but I’ve had this problem before where sometimes it will be choppy. Go to sound recorder while you’re on the net, and record something. Then play it back, if it is all fast and choppy and kinda scary sounding, then you have another program that is using your sound driver or something, so it’s messing it up when you’re on Yahoo!.

July 30, 2004 at 7:09 pm #75264

UnSaKreD
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Generally when you are experiencing choppy voice, like theres a helicopter on your mic, then its the actual audio card.

if its kind of laggy, but no real problem in the voice quality, it most likely is your connection.

July 30, 2004 at 7:13 pm #75261

MartinBradley
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Regardless of your Internet connection, the person receiving the voice must also have a fast Internet connection to be able to recieve the audio without it breaking up. Both participants in the conversation should have faster Internet connections, if one person is on 56k, then this will always have some detrimental effect on the quality of the audio.

August 1, 2004 at 8:06 am #75265

Melodeath
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I don’t think its the audio card cause I can see its not clipping. and I record on my computer all the time and it sounds great.

August 1, 2004 at 8:13 am #75267

EliteNick
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Do you record on your computer all the time while on the internet though?

August 1, 2004 at 2:59 pm #75262

MartinBradley
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quote:Originally posted by EliteNick

Do you record on your computer all the time while on the internet though?

That doesn’t matter, if you are recording onto your computer through a microphone, being connected to the Internet will not have any effect on the quality of the recording. If you are talking to somone else over the Internet, as I said in my previous post, then it is the speed of the Internet connections that will matter.

August 1, 2004 at 3:14 pm #75263

lazyturbo
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I haven’t used voice chat in Yahoo before, but I have tried many different programs that are choppy when it comes to audio (including Netmeeting). This is probably because the program detects when there’s a silence (when your not talking) and stops transmitting audio, until you start talking again. I guess to use up less bandwidth. Unfortunately, this constant starting/stopping of the audio causes the ‘choppiness’, and it doesn’t matter how fast your connection is.

For voice chat, I recommend using AIM or Eyeball Chat (includes webcam support). These programs constantly send audio to the other side, whether your talking or not, so the audio isnt choppy.
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