W3C Audio Publications and Milestones

From Audio WG Wiki

Contents 1 Group Deliverables 1.1 Draft Specifications 1.2 Finalised Specifications 1.3 Member submissions and strawman proposals 2 Milestones 2.1 Charter 2.2 Latest Estimates 3 Demos 4 Tutorials 5 Script Libraries

Group Deliverables

Draft Specifications

The Audio WG is currently working on the following specification deliverables:

• The Web Audio API.
  Edited by Chris Rogers (Google). Now a third public working draft. See the Editor's Draft for the very latest version
• The Web MIDI API.
  Edited by Jussi Kalliokoski (Invited Expert) and Chris Wilson (Google). Recently published as Second Public Working Draft. See the Editor's Draft for the latest version
• The Web Audio Processing: Use Cases and Requirements.
  Edited by Joe Berkovitz (Noteflight) and Olivier Thereaux (BBC). Currently a Working Draft, soon to be stabilised as a Note. See the Editor's Draft for the latest version

Finalised Specifications

The following deliverables are no longer being worked on:

• The MediaStream Processing API.
  Edited by Robert O'Callahan (Mozilla Corporation) is now a Working Group Note, no longer worked on but used as input for the Web Audio API.

Member submissions and strawman proposals

The following documents have been presented to the group by some of its members. They may be under discussion but have not (yet) been agreed upon or published by the group.

• DSP API Specification Unofficial draft.
• Audio Data API by David Humphrey, et al, from Mozilla: a more basic audio data API, which anticipates higher-level script libraries

Milestones

Charter

According to the Audio Working group charter, we aim to reach the following milestones for our main deliverables:

Specification	FPWD	LC	CR	PR	Rec
Web Audio API	Dec 2011	Q4 2012	Q2 2013	Q4 2013	Q4 2013
Web MIDI API	Q3 2012	Q1 2013	Q2 2013	Q3 2013	Q3 2013

Latest Estimates

Based on current progress, our updated estimates are:

Specification	FPWD	LC	CR	PR	Rec
Web Audio API	Dec 2011	Q1 2013	Q3 2013	Q1 2014	Q1 2014
Web MIDI API	Oct 2012	Q1 2013	Q2 2013	Q3 2013	Q3 2013

Demos

• Web Audio API Demos
• Audio Data API Demos

Tutorials

• Getting Started with Web Audio API
• Audio Data API tutorial

Script Libraries

• audionode.js by Corban Brook; adds the basic high-level functionality of the Web Audio API to the Audio Data API