Source note · Choppy and robotic audio on calls
RFC 3550 computes interarrival jitter as a running estimate smoothed with gain 1/16: J(i) = J(i-1) + (|D(i-1,i)| - J(i-1))/16, where D is the difference in packet spacing at the receiver compared with the sender.
Checked 2026-09-25
J(i) = J(i-1) + (|D(i-1,i)| - J(i-1))/16
- Vendor
- IETF
- Product
- RTP
- Subsystem
- jitter estimation
- Deployment
- any
- Region
- not restricted
- Release range
- RFC 3550 (STD 64)
- Checked
- 2026-09-25
Sources
- RFC 3550: RTP: A Transport Protocol for Real-Time Applications — IETF / RFC Editor · tier 1 standards and regulators · Section 6.4.1 (interarrival jitter definition) and Appendix A.8 'Estimating the Interarrival Jitter'
Cite this note
APA
WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). Choppy and robotic audio on calls: source note choppy-audio-troubleshooting-rtcp-jitter-formula. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/choppy-audio-troubleshooting-rtcp-jitter-formula
BibTeX
@misc{warmtransfer-claim-choppy-audio-troubleshooting-rtcp-jitter-formula,
title = {Choppy and robotic audio on calls: source note choppy-audio-troubleshooting-rtcp-jitter-formula},
author = {{WarmTransfer}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/choppy-audio-troubleshooting-rtcp-jitter-formula},
note = {Source note choppy-audio-troubleshooting-rtcp-jitter-formula, checked 2026-09-25}
}