The Firefox team has been hard at work producing an audio web API, and currently offer basic support for the API on Firefox Nightly and Firefox Aurora. The big deal with the web audio API is that web developers can rely on the API to build music applications, games, and applications that require advanced audio processing. The Web Audio API was first introduced by Google Chrome with the webkitAudioContext prefix code. Their goal is to release Web Audio API support in Firefox 24.
Features of the web audio API for Firefox
- Schedule events for exact times during audio playbacks
- Sound synthesis for electronic music
- Ability to analyze the audio data which will serve sound visualizers and graphical tools for the data
- An arrary of audio filters helping to create effects such as echo, noise cancellation
- 3D positional audio great for gaming
- Ability to integrate WebRTC to apply effects to sound coming in from external input like a external guitar or something