How to generate and play audio in real time with dsp toolbox

Hi everybody,

I am writing an application which must simultaneously analyse video frames and generate & play an audio stream. I am trying to use a dsp.AudioPlayer object to do this but I'm having lag issues. Without code writing to the dsp.AudioPlayer object I'm achieving 30-40 fps, with audio output I get less than 1. After profiling I can see most of the time is going into a for loop which pushes samples from a buffer to the audio object with the step function.

 obj.hap = dsp.AudioPlayer;
 sc_samples = 0:(1/obj.sc_sample_rate):path.tof; % Time samples 
 sc_voltage = interp1(path.pixelt, real(path.direct), sc_samples, 'linear');
 % Sound wave stored in sc_voltage, with time base sc_samples
 % sample rate is 8000hz

 tic
 for samp = 1:length(sc_samples)
   step(obj.hap, sc_voltage(samp));
 end
 time = toc

Is there any way to copy the whole buffer at once? Would this boost performance? I am aware of sound outputs in the data acquisition toolbox but this isn't compatible with 64 bit versions of Matlab.

Thanks for your help

Answer 1

[yeshwanth manhcuri]

try with wavread and wavwrite functions....audio player will show some time lag/..............

Answer 2

[Luke Plausin]

Audio had to be computed on the fly so precomputing to wav files was not an option. In the end I rewrote my code in C++ with port audio. Thanks for looking anyway