I've already killed a week trying to solve a mysterious problem in a project of mine and I am out of ideas. I wrote a Go package intended to play sounds which wraps OpenAL... pretty basic st...

I'm writing a console program that uses DirectSound API to render some audio data. I stumbled on a curious problem when following the DirectSound Programming Guide (from Microsoft). According to th...

I'm making a program that uses the Speech library and I'd like to get all other sounds muted or reduced when the lady is talking. I've been looking for a way to mute other applications manually, b...

Is DirectSound the best audio abstraction layer for Windows? Switching my app from a very bad sound implementation, built to a specific chipset, to an abstration layer. App is native Winform, .net...

I am trying to perform Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC) with the Speex codec library. According to the Speex documentation, I need to perform two calls: speex_echo_playback(echo_state, echo_frame...

I'm trying to detect if the headphones are plugged in on Windows. I've already tried DirectSound and the NAudio library and have not had any success. Does anyone have any suggestions? NOTE: ...

I want to increase a volume on buffer with voice data. The point is I'm using DirectSound and I have one primary and one secondary buffer - all streams mixing is done by hand. In a voice chat all p...

I have a C# project that plays Morse code for RSS feeds. I write it using Managed DirectX, only to discover that Managed DirectX is old and deprecated. The task I have is to play pure sine wave bur...

Back again with yet another DirectSound question, this one regarding the ways DirectSound Buffers can be used: I have packets coming in over the network at approximately 30ms intervals containing ...

The digital sound is playing using DirectSound device. It is necessary to display sound activity in decibels - like analog devices do. What is the right way to calculate sound pressure from the W...