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    <link type="guide" xref="tech" group="pulseaudio"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">

      <name>Shaun McCance</name>

      <email its:translate="no">shaunm@gnome.org</email>

      <years>2011</years>

    </credit>

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    <desc>Low-level audio API</desc>

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<title>PulseAudio</title>

    PulseAudio is GNOME's low-level audio API.  It is what sits between

    applications and the kernel's audio API.  PulseAudio lets you re-route

    sound through the network, or to a Bluetooth headset.  It can mix several

    sources of audio, or change the sample rate of an audio stream.

  
All the parts of GNOME that produce audio use PulseAudio in one way or

  another, either directly, or indirectly through higher-level sound

  manipulation APIs like <link xref="tech-gstreamer">GStreamer</link>.

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    <item>
<link href="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio">PulseAudio home page</link>
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