1.  // Create a couple of global variables to use.
          var audioElement = document.getElementById("myaudio"); // Audio element
          var ratedisplay = document.getElementById("rate"); // Rate display area
          // Hook the ratechange event and display the current playbackRate after each change
          audioElement.addEventListener("ratechange", function () {
            ratedisplay.innerHTML = "Speed: " + audioElement.playbackRate;
          }, false);
   
          // Increment playbackRate by 1
   $("#increaseSpeed").click(increaseSpeed);
          function increaseSpeed() {
            audioElement.playbackRate += 0.1;
        } 
   
          // Increment playbackRate by 1
   $("#decreaseSpeed").click(decreaseSpeed);
          function decreaseSpeed() {
            audioElement.playbackRate -= 0.05;
          }
     // Initialize the peak meters with the newly created audio element
     var myMeterElement = document.getElementById('my-peak-meter');
     var myAudioElement = audio.element;
     var audioCtx = new (window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext)();
     var sourceNode = audioCtx.createMediaElementSource(myAudioElement); 
   sourceNode.connect(audioCtx.destination);
     var meterNode = webAudioPeakMeter.createMeterNode(sourceNode, audioCtx);
     webAudioPeakMeter.createMeter(myMeterElement, meterNode, {});
   
   

I'm using jquery 3.1.1 I have tried all kinds of things, but I'm not good enough with jquery to work this out.
Thank you for any help recieved.