Re: [mediacapture-main] Support capturing audio output from sound card (#629)

@jan-ivar 

> I don't think mediacapture-main should specify generic capture of audio output from a browser or document without the context of a compelling user problem that it best solves.

Compelling use cases are listed at https://github.com/w3c/mediacapture-main/pull/651#issuecomment-566301849.

As previously stated, that functionality is already possible at both Firefox and Chromium. 

What is missing is the specification acknowledging the technical facts and canonical example of how to do so.

> There's no way to recognize speech from audio sources other than local mic, e.g. from a WebRTC call.
> 
> There's no way to pre-process audio—e.g. with web audio—before feeding it to the speech api.

are not true and correct.

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Received on Thursday, 19 December 2019 18:47:36 UTC