diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/manevolent/ts3j/audio/Microphone.java b/src/main/java/com/github/manevolent/ts3j/audio/Microphone.java
index fe4e0e3..2d4c6fb 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/manevolent/ts3j/audio/Microphone.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/manevolent/ts3j/audio/Microphone.java
@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ public interface Microphone {
         return 0;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Whether {@link #provide} hands out frames captured on a clock of their own, such as a sound
+     * card's. That clock drifts against the send timer, so each tick then sends every frame that is
+     * ready instead of one, keeping the drift from piling up as latency or overflowing a queue.
+     */
+    default boolean isLiveCapture() {
+        return false;
+    }
+
     /** How many copies follow each voice packet, {@link #getRedundancyDelay} apart. */
     default int getRedundancyCopies() {
         return 1;
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/manevolent/ts3j/protocol/socket/client/LocalTeamspeakClientSocket.java b/src/main/java/com/github/manevolent/ts3j/protocol/socket/client/LocalTeamspeakClientSocket.java
index 7911e9e..00656c7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/manevolent/ts3j/protocol/socket/client/LocalTeamspeakClientSocket.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/manevolent/ts3j/protocol/socket/client/LocalTeamspeakClientSocket.java
@@ -596,6 +596,7 @@ public class LocalTeamspeakClientSocket
                         new MicrophoneTask()
                 );
                 microphoneThread.setDaemon(true);
+                microphoneThread.setPriority(Thread.MAX_PRIORITY);
 
                 if (getState() != ClientConnectionState.DISCONNECTED)
                     microphoneThread.start();
@@ -693,26 +694,30 @@ public class LocalTeamspeakClientSocket
                 // TODO
                 // Set a state and send a muted event
             } else if (microphone.isReady()) {
-                byte[] data = microphone.provide();
-                if (data.length <= 0)
-                    return;
+                boolean live = microphone.isLiveCapture();
+                byte[] data;
+                do {
+                    data = microphone.provide();
+                    if (data.length <= 0) break;
 
-                PacketBody0Voice voice = new PacketBody0Voice(getRole().getOut());
+                    PacketBody0Voice voice = new PacketBody0Voice(getRole().getOut());
 
-                voice.setCodecType(microphone.getCodec());
-                voice.setCodecData(data);
-                if (flaggedPackets > 0) voice.setServerFlag0(sessionId);
+                    voice.setCodecType(microphone.getCodec());
+                    voice.setCodecData(data);
+                    if (flaggedPackets > 0) voice.setServerFlag0(sessionId);
 
-                try {
-                    writePacket(voice);
+                    try {
+                        writePacket(voice);
 
-                    flaggedPackets--;
-                    wasSendingAudio = true;
-                } catch (Exception e) {
-                    // All we are really concerned about here is a disconnection event, in which case the loop
-                    // will exit.
-                    getExceptionHandler().accept(e);
-                }
+                        flaggedPackets--;
+                        wasSendingAudio = true;
+                    } catch (Exception e) {
+                        // All we are really concerned about here is a disconnection event, in which case the loop
+                        // will exit.
+                        getExceptionHandler().accept(e);
+                        return;
+                    }
+                } while (live && microphone.isReady());
             } else if (wasSendingAudio) {
                 PacketBody0Voice voice = new PacketBody0Voice(getRole().getOut());
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/manevolent/ts3j/util/HighPrecisionTimer.java b/src/main/java/com/github/manevolent/ts3j/util/HighPrecisionTimer.java
index 8c04423..af374e8 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/manevolent/ts3j/util/HighPrecisionTimer.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/manevolent/ts3j/util/HighPrecisionTimer.java
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ public class HighPrecisionTimer extends Thread {
 
 			now = System.nanoTime();
 
-			// Clamp the next target to the maximum "drift" allowed
-			if (nextTarget - now > maximumDriftInNanos)
+			// After a stall, catch up at most the allowed number of ticks rather than all of them
+			if (now - nextTarget > maximumDriftInNanos)
 				nextTarget = now - maximumDriftInNanos;
 
 			if (sleepFor(nextTarget - now)) {