Re: Proper word for total delay?

Slim wrote:
What is the proper word that describes the total delay in a system from analog input to digital output (including phase shift time in analog and digital filters, calculations + other data transport times)?

Propagation delay time, latency or other?


Damn good question, especially as the delay time in a voice system can be a critical issue (on links that echo which is most of them, it's a major engineering issue).

In the long past when I worked on such links, we called it the system delay time. This should not be confused with such things as group delay (which specifies the relative delay through some circuit across a band of frequencies).

Cheers

PeteS
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