[WebAudio] AudioWorklet

Category: Multimedia
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 66)
Intent stage: Shipped

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Spec maturity: Incubation
Web Platform Tests: Yes

WPT details: https://wpt.fyi/results/webaudio/the-audio-api/the-audioworklet-interface?label=experimental&label=master&aligned

Summary

The AudioWorklet allows developers to supply JavaScript to process audio on the audio rendering thread. This processing mechanism ensures the synchronous execution of the author code with other built-in AudioNodes in the audio graph. The AudioWorklet is designed to replace ScriptProcessorNode. ScriptProcessorNode will be deprecated once AudioWorklet is shipped.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://www.w3.org/TR/webaudio/#audioworklet
Firefox: Shipped/Shipping
Safari: Shipped/Shipping
Web developers: Strongly positive
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=469639

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=webaudio%2Fthe-audio-api%2Fthe-audioworklet-interface
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+%5BWebAudio%5D%20AudioWorklet
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=%5BWebAudio%5D%20AudioWorklet
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=%5BWebAudio%5D%20AudioWorklet

Docs: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/12/audio-worklet,%20https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/06/audio-worklet-design-pattern

Samples: https://googlechromelabs.github.io/web-audio-samples/audio-worklet/

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