Description Of Work

curation of topics from : List of prioritized topics for the Audio HAL

PoC github repo : android-external-audio-mixing repository

hint about progress steps

  • define the related sw component affected by changes
  • define the interfaces (details discussed between those who change the components)
  • define which tasks require a real HW and which ones can be deployed on emulator (which part of the code is HW dependent)

Emulator Track Milestones

#SummaryDue DateContent Work PackagesDetails Comments
1

Multiple devices management



  • step 1 : AOSP Emulator, configure multiple devices that would be available in the car.
  • step 2 : Car System Emulator : emulate multiple Android devices with one single host device (e.g. Android sees many headsets and speakers then the user can select which one plays on the single host real device)
  • help test multi zone audio use cases
  • multiple microphones management
2HW acceleration Emulation

  • run the same DSP HW accelerated algorithm in a PC x86 environment
  • connect it to android emulator as an external HW accelerator
  • prefer usage of standard libraries and interfaces e.g. Android audio effects / Open SL.
  • how to add custom app effects
  • how to abstract audio analysis algorithms e.g. Wake Up Word Detection or other.

Components overview

Host and emulator interactions

Delegation of audio processing

#Component - main topicsOwnersJIRA sub-itemsImplementation details
raw streams

Raw Stream Extraction

(multizone audio, etc.)

todo: detail it + use case

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(blue star) AMM demo


  • Overview picture with SW components
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  • Audio HAL (open point: keep modified  or rewrite it)
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  • Config for multizone
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  • Separate contexts for audio input PCM streams (open point: separation concept to be defined)
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Input and Control of external streams

(microphone, or external player)

todo: detail it + use case

todo: be more explicit and clear about for example what is "external"

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(blue star) AMM demo


  • Design Overview (pointing to the actual sw comp)
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  • getting stream from Microphone (line in)
    • config in AOSP
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  • external player or other device (BT or other)
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13

Bluetooth Device Integration in Android System.

As a user I have a BT headset (with speakers, microphone, control buttons, or even the car itself, etc.). I should be able to use it in an Android System.


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  • Overview design
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  • Usage of a bluetooth headset with Android BT stack only
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  • Microphone from Headset, audio on External Loudspeakers
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  • No Bluetooth, both Microphone and Loudspeakers are used for telephony example such as skype or any other
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  • forward audio stream from external source (to connected BT device (speaker/headphone) via Android Audio subsystem
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08

Ensure measurability of full audio path latency

As a user I would not want my audio connection to be delayed.

Each delay measure will be split in modules, which module brings which delay, eg (Bluetooth delay, mixing delay, routing delay,...)


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(blue star) AMM demo (TBC)


  • Overview design
    • components and APIs involved in the Audio path
    • anti-jitter buffers configurations
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  • Total delay for Telephony on external speakers use case
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  • Total delay for Video streaming where audio plays on an external speaker
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  • add latency measurements means to quick audio solutions (AAudio)*
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  • investigate PCM transport impact on latency, check alternatives (currently named sockets are being used, alternative shared memory or pipes)
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Offloading to external speakers or loopback to Android.

(offloading examples, codecs MPEG,MP3, DSPs, transport e.g. AVB)

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  • Design Overview (pointing to the actual sw comp)
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  • Offloading part-1 (overview on concept, which APIs)
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  • Offloading part-2 (usage)
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  • Offloading with loopback to Android
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09

Offloading use case : Forwarding Multi-Channel audio

efficiency by keeping

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  • PCM 5.1 sample audio
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  • Guidelines for specific policy config to prevent downmixing
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  • Example implementation
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  • playing multichannels 5.1 audio from Netflix (any DRM issues)
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Additional build and run info

This info is to be moved in the repo readme, the current readme is not at the root of the repo to avoid aosp directory pollution, therefore this info will move once a new structure of repo is created with manifest and new readme

  • can open Android Studio that will show logcat output
  • Listen with command on another terminal window "nc -l 5000"
  • emulator
  • switch on from emulator power button
  • play any sound from Alarm volume settings or other

repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b android-10.0.0_r40

repo sync

source build/envsetup.sh

lunch

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HW Track Milestones

#SummaryDue DateContent Work PackagesDetails Comments
1

running demo on real HW

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  • compiling android-external-audio-mixing repository for selected target HW (Renesas-H3)
  • optional support for 2nd HW (Low cost HiKey)
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  • At this stage, the function selection for Milestone 3 should be agreed upon
2

Full Audio Path on real HW

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  • support of full audio path
    • Raw streams extraction
    • input external streams
    • control of an external stream
    • demo should showcase at least one function
3

Selected Functions partitioned on HW

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  • All selected and prioritized functions running on the main target HW
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