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# Get Voice

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## Introduction

Read captured audio data from the microphone buffer.\
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The compressed data can be transmitted by your application and decoded back into raw audio data using [Decompress Voice](/old-kb/old-toolkit-for-steamworks/unreal/blueprint-nodes/functions/decompress-voice.md) on the other side. The compressed data provided is in an arbitrary format and is not meant to be played directly.\
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This should be called once per frame, and at worst no more than four times a second to keep the microphone input delay as low as possible. Calling this any less may result in gaps in the returned stream.\
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It is recommended that you pass in an 8 kilobytes or larger destination buffer for compressed audio. Static buffers are recommended for performance reasons. However, if you would like to allocate precisely the right amount of space for a buffer before each call you may use [GetAvailableVoice](https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/api/ISteamUser#GetAvailableVoice) to find out how much data is available to be read.

### Return Value

The key at this index

## Nodes

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