# (newbie question) recorder sample on windows laptop (2019 dell xps 8th gen i7) has very noticeable latency (~500ms) between my speaking and hearing my voice **URL:** \ **Category:** FMOD Engine\ **Created:** [August 15, 2019, 8:12pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/newbie-question-recorder-sample-on-windows-laptop-2019-dell-xps-8th-gen-i7-has-very-noticeable-latency-500ms-between-my-speaking-and-hearing-my-voice/14949 "2019-08-15T20:12:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![snoopyapocalypse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@snoopyapocalypse](https://qa.fmod.com/u/snoopyapocalypse)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2019, 8:12pm UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/newbie-question-recorder-sample-on-windows-laptop-2019-dell-xps-8th-gen-i7-has-very-noticeable-latency-500ms-between-my-speaking-and-hearing-my-voice/14949/1 "2019-08-15T20:12:22Z")
Hi, I am new to FMOD, and want to use it to make a device that does realtime voice effects. I fired up the recorder sample on windows laptop (2019 dell xps) has very noticeable latency (~500ms) between my speaking and hearing my voice. I set the LATENCY\_MS value to 10ms, and while the latency reported in realtime by the recorder sample is about 10ms, when I speak into the laptop microphone my voice is clearly delayed when I hear it on the laptop speaker. I actually expected there to be latency since I was skeptical that a windows laptop would not introduce a significant delay, but I was hopeful. What I didnt expect is for the recorder sample to report 10ms latency but then to hear a big latency. Where do you think the latency is, and is there any hope of getting it to be as small as 10ms on a modern windows laptop? My laptop is a pretty fast one, a dell xps 15 9575, 8th gen core i7. Doing this on the laptop is just to prototype it. The finished product will be a vocoder to do realtime voice effects. If the finished product has the processing power of a high end cell phone, would the recorder sample likely perform with 10ms latency or less? thank you for any insight - Mark ---
**Author:** ![cameron-fmod](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/cameron-fmod/32/261_2.png) [@cameron-fmod](https://qa.fmod.com/u/cameron-fmod)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2019, 5:08am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/newbie-question-recorder-sample-on-windows-laptop-2019-dell-xps-8th-gen-i7-has-very-noticeable-latency-500ms-between-my-speaking-and-hearing-my-voice/14949/2 "2019-08-22T05:08:44Z")
It sounds like it could be an issue with the audio driver, could you try making the LATENCY\_MS larger (eg. 100ms, 150ms, etc.) and see if that makes a difference? ---
**Author:** ![snoopyapocalypse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@snoopyapocalypse](https://qa.fmod.com/u/snoopyapocalypse)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2019, 1:39am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/newbie-question-recorder-sample-on-windows-laptop-2019-dell-xps-8th-gen-i7-has-very-noticeable-latency-500ms-between-my-speaking-and-hearing-my-voice/14949/3 "2019-09-13T01:39:39Z")
Thank you for your response! I have increased the latency to 150 and it made the latency higher. I then tried the recorder sample on my desktop computer, which is a Microsoft Surface Studio 2. The latency is less but there is still a very noticeable delay from clapping my hands to hearing the clap (about a quarter of a second i.e. 250ms). Maybe this much latency in a windows pc is normal? On second thought, I guess not, because people are using FMOD for video games. My end goal is to have this code in an embedded system, probably something as powerful as a modern smartphone. Do you think I will experience more than 50 seconds of latency in that situation using the recorder sample? The product will be for modifying a human voice in real time, with no noticeable delay, so I think anything more than 50 milliseconds would make it annoying. thank you - Mark ---
**Author:** ![cameron-fmod](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/qa.fmod.com/cameron-fmod/32/261_2.png) [@cameron-fmod](https://qa.fmod.com/u/cameron-fmod)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2019, 5:03am UTC](https://qa.fmod.com/t/newbie-question-recorder-sample-on-windows-laptop-2019-dell-xps-8th-gen-i7-has-very-noticeable-latency-500ms-between-my-speaking-and-hearing-my-voice/14949/4 "2019-09-19T05:03:49Z")
You shouldn’t be experiencing high latency without some reason. What version of FMOD are you using? Are you able to try updating the audio driver and/or reinstalling the audio driver to see if that helps. Also check the console logs while using the FMOD logging libraries to see if there are any warnings or errors.