CHAPTER 6
Manipulating Audio Through the Web Audio API
When it comes to the Web, audio is...‘well’...it is just there. This is not to denigrate audio, but, in many respects, audio is treated as either an afterthought or an annoyance. Yet its importance can’t be understated. From the simple effects such as click sounds that act as user feedback to voice-over narrations describing products or events, audio is a major communication medium which, as one of the authors likes to say, “seals the deal.”
The key aspect of audio is that when it is digitized it can be manipulated. To do this one needs to stop regarding audio as sound and see it for what ...
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