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High latency doc (#263)
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next practical value -- i.e. to provide an equal or higher
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latency wherever possible. Actual latency values for an
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open stream may be retrieved using the `latency` attribute.
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.. note:: Specifying the desired latency as 'high' does
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not guarantee a stable audio stream. For reference, by
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default Audacity specifies a desired latency of 100ms and
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achieves robust performance.
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extra_settings : settings object or pair thereof, optional
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This can be used for host-API-specific input/output
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settings. See `default.extra_settings`.

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