Pulseaudio is a networked sound server, for both POSIX and Win32 systems. It acts like a proxy for sound applications. With it is possible to do software mixing of different audio streams (even if
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they are on different machines), transfer an audio stream between different machines over the network, change the sample format or channel count, among other things.
The benefit of integrating the Bluetooth Audio service into pulseaudio is that will be possible to make connections between the bluetooth audio streams and other audio streams on the computer. In example, it would be possible to have two people, each one with one bluetooth headset (or one bluetooth and one wired headset), talking on the same record channel of a VoIP application, mixing the two audio streams coming from the headsets into one that goes into the VoIP application.
In addition, would be also possible to have pulseAudio to control your bluetooth audio streams, lowering the volume of your (bluetooth or not) speakers and activating your headset when you receive a call on your VoIP system. [Less]
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