Binaural synthesis with the Web Audio API

The Web Audio API is a powerful new platform for audio rendering within the browser and it provides a great oppor-tunity for large deployment of audio applications. This paper explores the possibilities and limitations of the API for 3D sound spatialization based on binaural synthesis over head-phones. The paper examines different processing structures and presents a new web-based server which allows the user to load individualized Head-Related Transfer Functions from a remote database