Record audio from Pepper robot with GStreamer - audio

I'm working with the Pepper robot from SoftBank Robotics and GStreamer for RTP stream. I need to record the audio from the robot. I use gstreamer1.0 on my computer and gstreamer0.10 is installed on the robot.
Here are the command lines I use :
Pepper:
gst-launch-0.10 alsasrc name=mic provide-clock=true do-timestamp=true buffer-time=200000 mic. ! 'audio/x-raw-int, format=S16LE; channels=1, width=16, depth=16, rate=16000' ! udpsink host="computer_adress" port="speaker_port" sync=false
Computer:
gst-launch-1.0 -e udpsrc port="speaker_port" ! audio/x-raw, width=16, depth=16, rate=16000, channels=1 format=S16LE ! audioconvert ! filesink location=audio_file_name.mp3 sync=false
With these commands I only can get a mp3 file but with no sound in it.
I'm aware that some things are not correct but I don't know what. I'm a beginner with Gstreamer and RTP protocol. Could someone help me with that ? And maybe explain me how to stream audio with RTP from the robot.
Sorry if I made any English writing mistakes.
Thanks for your help.

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I'm not experienced in using vlc, but at least I get your GStreamer pipelines working if I add the caps, definitions of the rtp stream parameters, to the rtpopusdepay.
So instead of:
gst-launch-1.0 -v udpsrc uri=rtp://0.0.0.0:4000 ! rtpopusdepay ! oggmux ! filesink location=test.ogg
you'll need to use:
gst-launch-1.0 udpsrc uri=udp://0.0.0.0:4000 ! application/x-rtp,payload=96,encoding-name=OPUS ! rtpopusdepay ! opusdec ! autoaudiosink
for GStreamer. The mandatory parts are the payload and encoding-name, others you can find from gst-inspect-1.0 rtpopuspay/rtpopusdepay. You might need to change the numbers depending on what you define on the server side/what's the default on your machine.
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I don't really know how to tackle this issue as the CPU usage is not anormal.
And to be frank I am quite new in this, so I don't get what are the parameters to play with to get low latency. I hope someone can help me! (and that it is not a hardware problem too ^^)
Thanks a lot!
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Please consider writing your own program (even using GStreamer) to perform the streaming from an RT thread. NAOqi OS has the RT patches included and support this.
But with network involved in your pipeline, you may not be able to guarantee it is going to be processed in time.
So maybe the simplest solution could be to keep a queue before the audio processing of the sender:
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