Visualizing sound

Today, we looked at how we can use the Web Audio API to visualize sound in various ways, such as through waveforms or spectra.
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Author

Florian Hollerweger

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January 7, 2026

In this process, we also learned something about the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT). The following demo, which is adopted from chapter 7 of Joshua Reiss’ book on the Web Audio API, uses our web radio live stream as an input source. Click play and then switch between waveform and spectrum.