PCM Audio Converter (audio/rtp.go)

Converts int16 PCM samples to little-endian byte slices for Deepgram STT, with an allocation-free variant for per-frame hot paths. Reuse when streaming audio to speech-to-text services.

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package audio

import (
	"encoding/binary"
	"log"
)

// PCMToLinear16Bytes converts int16 PCM samples to little-endian byte slice
// suitable for Deepgram STT.
func PCMToLinear16Bytes(pcm []int16) []byte {
	return PCMToLinear16BytesInto(nil, pcm)
}

// PCMToLinear16BytesInto is the allocation-free variant: it reuses buf when
// its capacity suffices (allocating only otherwise) and returns the encoded
// slice. Callers on per-frame hot paths keep one buffer and pass it back in
// every call — safe as long as the previous result is no longer referenced,
// which holds for the

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