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audio_common

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  • Perception
  • Driver or SDK

A ROS package of audio tools for capturing, playing back and transmitting sound, with separate branches for ROS1 and ROS2. Documentation lives on the ROS Wiki.

Made by ROS device drivers.

Source on GitHub: github.com/ros-drivers/audio_common (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit d91fb78 (opens in a new tab).

Licenses

Code
BSD-3-Clause (opens in a new tab)

Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (BSD-3-Clause) at commit d91fb78 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.

Commercial use
Yes

What it does

  • Provides the audio_common package for the ROS audio ecosystem, maintained under the ros-drivers organization.
  • The master branch is recommended for ROS1 releases including Kinetic, Melodic and Noetic.
  • The ros2 branch is recommended for ROS2 source builds.
  • The master branch accepts new non-breaking features and bug fixes in the 0.3.x release range.
  • Breaking changes to dependencies or the package API are staged for the next major ROS release.
  • Support questions are directed to ROS Answers.

Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit d91fb78.

Getting started

Difficulty
Beginner
Hardware it needs, as the project states it
Binary builds are published for arm64, armhf and amd64 on Ubuntu Bionic and Focal and Debian Buster; i386 is not built.

Maintenance

Status
Active: a commit in the last 90 days
Newest commit
25 Sept 2026 on ros2
Latest release
None published on GitHub

Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.

Links

Robots on Robotheca that use it

No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.

Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.