Home Multimedia and Automation Systems with GStreamer

For quite a few years, Jan has been using GStreamer's network synchronisation features at home to build multimedia systems for distributed media playback.This talk, however, will focus on his progress …

For quite a few years, Jan has been using GStreamer’s network synchronisation features at home to build multimedia systems for distributed media playback.This talk, however, will focus on his progress with an interesting and slightly difference use-case: Using the synchronisation primitives in the other direction - to capture and process audio from microphones distributed around a house. Through triangulation and filtering, such a system can provide useful features like speaker isolation and echo-location for improved recognition and contextualisation of spoken commands.