- From: Brady Eidson <beidson@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:41:10 -0700
From 4.8.10.9: "If the playbackRate is not 1.0, the user agent may apply pitch adjustments to the audio as necessary to render it faithfully." While pitch correction is certainly desirable a lot of the time, we've found that it is also desirable to disable pitch correction on demand. Content authors might *prefer* the "chipmunk" effect during faster playback or the "stretched low voice" effect during slower playback. As such, WebKit just added a new attribute to the MediaElement called "webkitPreservesPitch." For now it defaults to true, as the default playback behavior for our main ports has been to do pitch correction. But by setting it to false, author's can get the chipmunk/stretch effect when they desire. Hopefully other folks will like this idea and we could add the "preservesPitch" attribute to the MediaElement so we could drop the webkit prefix on this! ~Brady
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