Audio tag muted autoplay does not work

[Hugo Aguirre]

Hello everyone,

I am automating some code to test some audio content that we have using the audio tag. I am using the muted autoplay on the audio tag in order to comply with the autoplay rules. This may be silly for browsing but not for automation.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/autoplay/

But these rules are not applied to the audio tag. I get the following error. 

: play() failed because the user didn't interact with the document first.

For internal compelling reasons I can't use the video tag (which does work) to test the content. I do need the audio tag to play so I can do a variety of tests.

I'd like to understand if there is any way around it, even if it is to use some flag on Chrome or anything I can do as I can set this up in a close environment so automation is possible without human interaction.

Thanks,

Hugo