How to capture audio in javascript?

Question

I am currently using getUserMedia(), which is only working on Firefox and Chrome, yet it got deprecated and works only on https (in Chrome). Is there any other/better way to get the speech input in javascript that works on all platforms?

E.g. how do websites like web.whatsapp.com app record audio? getUserMedia() prompts first-time-users to permit audio recording, whereas the Whatsapp application doesn't require the user's permission.

The getUserMedia() I am currently using looks like this:

navigator.getUserMedia(
    {
        "audio": {
            "mandatory": {
                "googEchoCancellation": "false",
                "googAutoGainControl": "false",
                "googNoiseSuppression": "false",
                "googHighpassFilter": "false"
            },
            "optional": []
        },
    }, gotStream, function(e) {
        console.log(e);
    });

Answer 1

Chrome 60+ does require using https, since getUserMedia is a powerful feature. The API access shouldn't work in non-secure domains, as that API access may get bled over to non-secure actors. Firefox still supports getUserMedia over http, though.

I've been using RecorderJS and it served my purposes well. Here is a code example. (source)

function RecordAudio(stream, cfg) {

  var config = cfg || {};
  var bufferLen = config.bufferLen || 4096;
  var numChannels = config.numChannels || 2;
  this.context = stream.context;
  var recordBuffers = [];
  var recording = false;
  this.node = (this.context.createScriptProcessor ||
    this.context.createJavaScriptNode).call(this.context,
    bufferLen, numChannels, numChannels);

  stream.connect(this.node);
  this.node.connect(this.context.destination);

  this.node.onaudioprocess = function(e) {
    if (!recording) return;
    for (var i = 0; i < numChannels; i++) {
      if (!recordBuffers[i]) recordBuffers[i] = [];
      recordBuffers[i].push.apply(recordBuffers[i], e.inputBuffer.getChannelData(i));
    }
  }

  this.getData = function() {
    var tmp = recordBuffers;
    recordBuffers = [];
    return tmp; // returns an array of array containing data from various channels
  };

  this.start() = function() {
    recording = true;
  };

  this.stop() = function() {
    recording = false;
  };
}

The usage is straightforward:

var recorder = new RecordAudio(userMedia);
recorder.start();
recorder.stop();
var recordedData = recorder.getData()

Edit: You may also want to check this answer if nothing works.