The W3C Audio Working Group is chartered to develop specifications which define a client-side script API adding more advanced audio capabilities than are currently offered by audio elements. The API will support the features required by advanced interactive applications including the ability to process and synthesize audio streams directly in script.

The HTML5 specification introduces the <audio> and <video> media elements, including an API to play back prerecorded audio and video files and to get limited information about the media, such as duration. The Audio Working Group will build upon and expand that basic functionality.

This group works in public, with details in the WG's Work Mode document and the WG's Wiki.

A detailed list of this group's publications and their status will be available in one of the W3C's CVS or Mercurial systems.

The W3C Team Contacts for the Audio Working Group are Doug Schepers and Thierry Michel. The Chair of the Working Group is Al MacDonald.

Upcoming Meetings

To be determined.

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