I do not know whence this 5 second delay comes from but normally you 
would use a 5 second long digital ring buffer. If the sound is sampled 
at 8kHz you need 40,000 samples for 5 seconds. A 64kByte by 8 bit memory 
and a PIC with adc could solve your problem.

Peter

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