diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index c2367820c..ce62815d0 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     "classnames": "^2.3.1",
     "color-hash": "^2.0.1",
     "events": "^3.3.0",
-    "matrix-js-sdk": "github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#ebcb26f1b3b9e2d709615fde03f9ce6ac77871f1",
+    "matrix-js-sdk": "github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#f9672cf3076bf5e1868c92ee94c780040b0c6fb1",
     "mermaid": "^8.13.8",
     "normalize.css": "^8.0.1",
     "pako": "^2.0.4",
diff --git a/src/video-grid/useMediaStream.ts b/src/video-grid/useMediaStream.ts
index 2b8f8f727..79e8292be 100644
--- a/src/video-grid/useMediaStream.ts
+++ b/src/video-grid/useMediaStream.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ limitations under the License.
 
 import { useRef, useEffect, RefObject } from "react";
 import { parse as parseSdp, write as writeSdp } from "sdp-transform";
+import {
+  acquireContext,
+  releaseContext,
+} from "matrix-js-sdk/src/webrtc/audioContext";
 
 import { useSpatialAudio } from "../settings/useSetting";
 
@@ -152,7 +156,7 @@ export const useAudioContext = (): [
 
   useEffect(() => {
     if (audioRef.current && !context.current) {
-      context.current = new AudioContext();
+      context.current = acquireContext();
 
       if (window.chrome) {
         // We're in Chrome, which needs a loopback hack applied to enable AEC
@@ -166,9 +170,11 @@ export const useAudioContext = (): [
         })();
         return () => {
           audioEl.srcObject = null;
+          releaseContext();
         };
       } else {
         destination.current = context.current.destination;
+        return releaseContext;
       }
     }
   }, []);
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 68339b6f9..5376e3184 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -8602,11 +8602,12 @@ matrix-events-sdk@^0.0.1-beta.7:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/matrix-events-sdk/-/matrix-events-sdk-0.0.1-beta.7.tgz#5ffe45eba1f67cc8d7c2377736c728b322524934"
   integrity sha512-9jl4wtWanUFSy2sr2lCjErN/oC8KTAtaeaozJtrgot1JiQcEI4Rda9OLgQ7nLKaqb4Z/QUx/fR3XpDzm5Jy1JA==
 
-"matrix-js-sdk@github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#404f8e130e44a78b0159c55902df1b129b3816d1":
-  version "17.2.0"
-  resolved "https://codeload.github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/tar.gz/404f8e130e44a78b0159c55902df1b129b3816d1"
+"matrix-js-sdk@github:matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk#f9672cf3076bf5e1868c92ee94c780040b0c6fb1":
+  version "18.1.0"
+  resolved "https://codeload.github.com/matrix-org/matrix-js-sdk/tar.gz/f9672cf3076bf5e1868c92ee94c780040b0c6fb1"
   dependencies:
     "@babel/runtime" "^7.12.5"
+    "@types/sdp-transform" "^2.4.5"
     another-json "^0.2.0"
     browser-request "^0.3.3"
     bs58 "^4.0.1"
@@ -8616,6 +8617,7 @@ matrix-events-sdk@^0.0.1-beta.7:
     p-retry "^4.5.0"
     qs "^6.9.6"
     request "^2.88.2"
+    sdp-transform "^2.14.1"
     unhomoglyph "^1.0.6"
 
 md5.js@^1.3.4: