How to fix high pitch audio when increasing playback speed in Android using expo-audio?

Question

I'm using the expo-audio library in my React Native project to play audio files. When I increase the playback speed using setPlaybackRate(2), the audio plays faster but with a higher pitch on Android devices.

To fix this, I tried setting the pitchCorrectionQuality like this:

setPlaybackRate(2,'high');

However, this throws the following error:

Error: Received 3 arguments, but 2 was expected, js engine: hermes

I'm not sure how to apply pitch correction properly with the latest expo-audio APIs. The documentation is also a bit unclear on this.

My goal: I want to increase playback speed without distorting the pitch, especially on Android.

Questions:

How can I correctly apply pitch correction using expo-audio?
Is there a different method or setting I should use?

AlexErrant · Accepted Answer · 2025-08-13 03:24:13Z

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Try:

if (Platform.OS === "android") {
  audio.shouldCorrectPitch = true;
  audio.setPlaybackRate(rate);
} else {
  audio.setPlaybackRate(rate, "high");
}

Credit to neiker: https://github.com/expo/expo/issues/37025#issuecomment-3027988621

answered Aug 13 at 3:24

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