#Html5 audio example how to#
#Html5 audio example download#

Interestingly they don't also use like Facebook do - they use navigator.getUserMedia which is a an older deprecated API but it checks out. I noticed they added a Butterworth Filter which I believe reduces background noise from the recording. This uses the AudioContext API which is part of the Web Audio API, this means they can also add effects and filters before creating the output. They also access the microphone raw data similary to this article by Google developers. They use a library similar to opus.js-sample to do it - this means both Chrome, Firefox and other browsers can then use ogg. WhatsApp on Web convert the recorded data to an OGG format from inside a WebWorker. POST request made to with this payload which includes the 'audio/wav' format. They do something very similar to this project I found by a Googler who seems to specialise in Web Audio. They then send that format to the backend. #1 Facebook Solutionįacebook messenger records the audio streaming data as before but then converts it in a WebWorker to a WAV format.

#Html5 audio example how to#

Including a demonstration of how to do the encoding in a WebWorker. The project web-audio-recorder-js has some great examples of how to encode to WAV, OGG and MP3 in the browser. They use a WebWorker on the client for the possible heavy audio conversion process before sending it to the backend. This is how Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp do their voice recording on the web. Recording audio in the same format across browsers is annoying, especially if you want the audio files sent to a backend.Ĭonverting to a consistent audio format on the frontend before sending to the backend is a good solution. See this excellent support media formats page.

Playing formats are much better supported than recording formats. MediaRecorder.isTypeSupported('audio/ogg codecs=opus') MediaRecorder.isTypeSupported('audio/webm codecs=opus') You can test the supported recording formats in the browser by using the MediaRecorder function isTypeSupported. Chrome and Firefox also have different audio recording formats but the same codec.Īt time of writing these are the only supported native audio recording formats. Support for MediaRecorder is still not on Safari, IE or Edge. You can also then save the audio to a file from this input element. When you paste this example in the developer console it will ask for permission to record audio, record audio for 4 seconds and then append a HTML5 input audio element to the body which can playback the audio. this will trigger one final 'ondataavailable' event and set recorder state to 'inactive' setTimeout to stop recording after 4 seconds start recording with 1 second time between receiving 'ondataavailable' events convert blob to URL so it can be assigned to a audio src attributeĬreateAudioElement(URL.createObjectURL(blob)) request permission to access audio stream

#Html5 audio example download#

appends an audio element to playback and download recordingĬonst downloadEl = document.createElement('a') Ĭonst audioEl = document.createElement('audio') Ĭonst sourceEl = document.createElement('source') Optional: Use polyfill from WebRTC project to do some cross-browser support of the API such as the function on older Firefox and Chrome browsers. Here is the 'simplest' way to record, play and download audio in Chrome (this also works in Firefox but ogg format is used instead of webm).

And yes, I spent a long time debugging in the browser.Īt time of writing the MediaRecorder API is in editors draft. This post will focus on getting the recorded audio into the same file format across browsers.

Pure Native HTML5 Audio Recording is here and has been for a while, no more flash needed! Don't get too excited though, it still requires a bit of work to support it in a consistent manner.