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BaseAudioContext: listener property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨April 2021⁩.

The listener property of the BaseAudioContext interface returns an AudioListener object that can then be used for implementing 3D audio spatialization.

Value

An AudioListener object.

Examples

Note: For a full Web Audio spatialization example, see our panner-node demo.

const audioCtx = new AudioContext();
// Older webkit/blink browsers require a prefix

// …

const myListener = audioCtx.listener;

Specifications

Specification
Web Audio API>
# dom-baseaudiocontext-listener>

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
listener 14 12 25 15 6 18 25 14 6 1.0 4.4.3 6

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BaseAudioContext/listener