diff --git a/app/index.js b/app/index.js
index fe786d1..f9aa729 100644
--- a/app/index.js
+++ b/app/index.js
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ class Settings {
 class GlobalBindings {
   constructor () {
     this.settings = new Settings()
-    this.connector = new WorkerBasedMumbleConnector(audioContext.sampleRate)
+    this.connector = new WorkerBasedMumbleConnector()
     this.client = null
     this.userContextMenu = new ContextMenu()
     this.channelContextMenu = new ContextMenu()
@@ -334,6 +334,10 @@ class GlobalBindings {
 
       log('Connecting to server ', host)
 
+      // Note: This call needs to be delayed until the user has interacted with
+      // the page in some way (which at this point they have), see: https://goo.gl/7K7WLu
+      this.connector.setSampleRate(audioContext().sampleRate)
+
       // TODO: token
       this.connector.connect(`wss://${host}:${port}`, {
         username: username,
@@ -555,9 +559,9 @@ class GlobalBindings {
       }).on('voice', stream => {
         console.log(`User ${user.username} started takling`)
         var userNode = new BufferQueueNode({
-          audioContext: audioContext
+          audioContext: audioContext()
         })
-        userNode.connect(audioContext.destination)
+        userNode.connect(audioContext().destination)
 
         stream.on('data', data => {
           if (data.target === 'normal') {
diff --git a/app/voice.js b/app/voice.js
index ff538e3..6b048de 100644
--- a/app/voice.js
+++ b/app/voice.js
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ export class VADVoiceHandler extends VoiceHandler {
     super(client, settings)
     let level = settings.vadLevel
     const self = this
-    this._vad = vad(audioContext, theUserMedia, {
+    this._vad = vad(audioContext(), theUserMedia, {
       onVoiceStart () {
         console.log('vad: start')
         self._active = true
diff --git a/app/worker-client.js b/app/worker-client.js
index c6096b6..f1c2bac 100644
--- a/app/worker-client.js
+++ b/app/worker-client.js
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import worker from './worker'
  * Only stuff which we need in mumble-web is proxied, i.e. this is not a generic solution.
  */
 class WorkerBasedMumbleConnector {
-  constructor (sampleRate) {
+  constructor () {
     this._worker = webworkify(worker)
     this._worker.addEventListener('message', this._onMessage.bind(this))
     this._reqId = 1
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ class WorkerBasedMumbleConnector {
     this._clients = {}
     this._nextVoiceId = 1
     this._voiceStreams = {}
+  }
 
+  setSampleRate (sampleRate) {
     this._postMessage({
       method: '_init',
       sampleRate: sampleRate
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 962a039..5097a01 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
   ],
   "devDependencies": {
     "audio-buffer-utils": "^3.1.2",
-    "audio-context": "^0.1.0",
+    "audio-context": "^1.0.3",
     "babel-core": "^6.18.2",
     "babel-loader": "^6.2.8",
     "babel-plugin-transform-runtime": "^6.15.0",
@@ -52,6 +52,6 @@
     "mumble-client-codecs-browser": "^1.2.0",
     "mumble-client-websocket": "^1.0.0",
     "mumble-client": "^1.3.0",
-    "web-audio-buffer-queue": "^1.0.0"
+    "web-audio-buffer-queue": "^1.1.0"
   }
 }