The article specifically states in a number of these apps the data is hitting the network. You don’t need to do that for what you describe. Reduced latency a

The article specifically states in a number of these apps the data is hitting the network. You don’t need to do that for what you describe. Reduced latency after unmute is probably the better explanation. > They used runtime binary analysis tools to trace raw audio in popular videoconferencing applications as the audio traveled from the app to the computer audio driver and then to the network while the app was muted. > They found that all of the apps they tested occasionally gather raw audio data while mute is activated, with one popular app gathering information and delivering data to its server at the same rate regardless of whether the microphone is muted or not.