Web Microphone

Since the MVP, Web Mic received a fresh coat of paint with a Neumorphic UI, a more mobile-friendly layout, and a bunch of small improvements that make it usable for the general public. At this point, it feels right to share it with a broader audience.

The main issue might be the pairing process which trades security for convenience (the app looks for any available receivers without authenticating) but I really wanted it to be very simple and "magical".

The source code for the app is also available on GitHub!

The first version, with a very crude UI and lots of bugs, showed that it was in fact possible! I did a whole live stream about 6 hours in total with zero issues and perfect audio quality! Latency was constant and there were no interruptions.

When recording a live stream, I needed a wireless microphone but all I had was an old Android phone and a wired lavalier microphone. After trying many tools for streaming audio (RTMP, different VoIP and dedicated apps) I had to choose between:

• low latency: RTMP doesn't guarantee even constant latency
• high quality: all VoIP apps were sacrificing audio quality to save bandwidth

This made me think that it should be possible to use WebRTC and IPFS to create a decentralized app just sends audio from one device to another.