Web Audio API

File Format
Name	Web Audio API
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Web Web Audio API
Released	2013

The Web Audio API is a programming API for playing sounds (live from a web application, instead of "canned" audio from a file such as an MP3) from a web browser using JavaScript. It is currently a W3C draft specification, with people from Mozilla and Google involved in its development. The intent is that it be a cross-browser standard for web audio.

Specifications

• Current draft spec
• Earlier obsolete spec

Links

• Mozilla tech docs on Web Audio API
• Blog posting by Jason Scott discussing the state of web audio as it affects in-browser emulators of other systems