Audio Articles
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JSMad – a JavaScript MP3 decoder
It always amazes me just how fast modern browsers and their JavaScript engines are. And how creative people get when trying to make things work inside a browser instead of relying on a plugin that our end users would have to install (and more importantly constantly keep up to date). The latest thing that make […]
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DeepSpeech 0.6: Mozilla’s Speech-to-Text Engine Gets Fast, Lean, and Ubiquitous
The Machine Learning team at Mozilla continues work on DeepSpeech, an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine which aims to make speech recognition technology and trained models openly available to developers. In this overview of recent improvements, we'll show how DeepSpeech can transform your applications by enabling client-side, low-latency, and privacy-preserving speech recognition capabilities. Find out how you can participate.
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HTML5 video 'buffered' property available in Firefox 4
Support for the HTML5 video 'buffered' property has landed in Firefox, we can now accurately determine which time-segments of a video we can play and seek into without needing to pause playback to download more data.
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Songs of Diridum: Pushing the Web Audio API to Its Limits
When we at Goo Technologies heard that the Web Audio API would be supported in an upcoming version of Mozilla Firefox, we immediately started brainstorming about what we could build with that. We started discussing the project with the game developers behind “Legend of Diridum” (see below) and came up with the idea of a […]
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Building a Firefox OS App for my favorite Internet radio station
I recently created a Firefox OS app for my favourite radio station — radio paradise. It was a lot of fun making this app, so I thought it would be good to share some notes about how I built it. The audio tag It started by implementing the main functionality of the app, playing an […]
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Introducing the Web Audio Editor in Firefox Developer Tools
In Firefox 32, the Web Audio Editor joins the Shader Editor and Canvas Debugger in Firefox Developer Tools for debugging media-rich content on the web. When developing HTML5 games or fun synthesizers using web audio, the Web Audio Editor assists in visualizing and modifying all of the audio nodes within the web audio AudioContext. Visualizing […]
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Web Audio API comes to Firefox
We have been working on implementing the Web Audio API in Firefox for a while now, and we currently have basic support for the API implemented on Firefox Nightly and Firefox Aurora. Web Audio provides a number of cool features that can be used in order to create music applications, games, and basically any application […]
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Audio Tags: Web Components + Web Audio = ♥
Article written by Soledad Penadés, edited by Angelina Fabbro. Last week we released Brick 1.0, our carefully curated set of web components for rapid development. Using components makes it very easy to use and integrate these UI widgets with existing code and frameworks. And this week we bring you Audio Tags, an experiment building Web […]
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speak.js: Text-to-Speech on the Web
Text-to-Speech (TTS) can make content more accessible, but there is so far no simple and universal way to do that on the web. One possible approach is shown in this demo, which is powered by speak.js, a new 100% pure JavaScript/HTML5 TTS implementation. speak.js is a port of eSpeak, an open source speech synthesizer, from […]
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The story of an Audio & WebGL Demo: No Comply
The audio team is made up of a group Mozilla volunteers who developed the Audio API and, most recently, a new generation of WebGL demos. This is the story of the development of the No Comply demo. In the fall, after finishing Flight of the Navigator, our team of audio and WebGL hackers was looking […]