An apparatus includes de-jitter buffer control circuitry configured to determine an arrival delay value based on previously received audio packets, to identify a receive time of a first audio packet of a talk spurt, to determine an offset value of the first audio packet based on the receive time and the arrival delay value, and to adjust a target delay value associated with a de-jitter buffer based on the offset value. The apparatus also includes a de-jitter buffer configured to buffer the first audio packet based on the adjusted target delay value.