A new kind of volume control

Kind of cute; nice HTML5 example. He says it only works in Firefox, but worked fine for me in Opera.

At first I didn't get it. But then I tried it. And I like it! How cool would this option be for 'books on tape'.

I need this for my two-year-old.<p>Which setting is "inside voice"?

This is similar to the velocity channel in digital music, which is how hard the note is struck (possibly changing the quality of the note), which can be separate from the volume.

You could expand this to a choose-your-own-adventure for audio clips.

Reading the title I hoped someone finally built a car audio that auto-adjusts the volume depending on background noise.

If you go from shout to whisper right at the last line, it becomes one of the creepiest things I've ever heard.

Looks like he posted a day too early for April's Fool. Nice joke anyways!