Torque networking, applied to VOIP

I have made some solid progress at adding VOIP into Torque (I can sample the microphone and compress it using Speex... code should work on Mac and Windows, and I could explore Unix). I intend to eventually share my work with the community when I have it ready, but now I need to learn much more about Torque -- primarily, its networking gestalt.

For my first implementation, I would like to just use Torque's unreliable UDP platformNet to send streaming voice packets through the server to only those other clients who are near enough to hear the speaker (a simple distance limit). Then, on each of those clients, I'd like them to hear the sound emanate from the position of the speaking player.

I had been thinking that my means of coding this was to be a direct use of Net::sendto() but another idea occurs to me:

Is the proper way to do this to add the mouth of the Player as part of the data state that the network layer is supposed to disseminate to other clients, much like his orientation in the world? In such a model, a non-talking player would have no state to transmit to the net, but when my microphone layer hands me some compressed audio, I'd hand it to my local Player instance's mouth, and trust that the neat differencing logic could then realize that it needs to go out to the net. If this is the approach, would I have to take special measures to ensure you could hear people behind you (as they are out of camera scope -- I take it this is different than setting scopeAlways, as the distance is still pertinent)?

Also, on the receive side, would the key be to add an AudioEmitter (or a subclass of one) to the mouth of the speaker? Is there any existing high-level support for audio which is provided on a frame-by-frame basis, and not from a soundfile resource?

Thanks in advance for any counsel you can provide.

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