<story><title>Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?</title><text>It occurred to me that we often use colours in our terminals and code editors to highlight test failures, linting errors etc, but we don&amp;#x27;t typically use sounds. Has anyone integrated sound effects in any way?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>macos has the &amp;quot;say&amp;quot; binary which is fun to play with for stuff like this</text></item><item><author>gorkish</author><text>From [1] The story of PING:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  ping goodhost | sed -e &amp;#x27;s&amp;#x2F;.*&amp;#x2F;ping&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x27; | vocoder
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&lt;i&gt;He wired the vocoder&amp;#x27;s output into his office stereo and turned up the volume as loud as he could stand. The computer sat there shouting &amp;quot;Ping, ping, ping...&amp;quot; once a second, and he wandered through the building wiggling Ethernet connectors until the sound stopped. And that&amp;#x27;s how he found the intermittent failure.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ftp.arl.army.mil&amp;#x2F;~mike&amp;#x2F;ping.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ftp.arl.army.mil&amp;#x2F;~mike&amp;#x2F;ping.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nomel</author><text>I did something similar for finding which outlet a breaker went to. I connected my MacBook to the outlet, airplay to the TV so it was loud, then had it yell if the power was disconnected:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;    while ! pmset -g batt | grep &amp;#x27;discharging&amp;#x27;; do; echo waiting; sleep 1; done; say disconnected&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Does anyone use sound effects in their dev environment?</title><text>It occurred to me that we often use colours in our terminals and code editors to highlight test failures, linting errors etc, but we don&amp;#x27;t typically use sounds. Has anyone integrated sound effects in any way?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>whalesalad</author><text>macos has the &amp;quot;say&amp;quot; binary which is fun to play with for stuff like this</text></item><item><author>gorkish</author><text>From [1] The story of PING:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  ping goodhost | sed -e &amp;#x27;s&amp;#x2F;.*&amp;#x2F;ping&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x27; | vocoder
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&lt;i&gt;He wired the vocoder&amp;#x27;s output into his office stereo and turned up the volume as loud as he could stand. The computer sat there shouting &amp;quot;Ping, ping, ping...&amp;quot; once a second, and he wandered through the building wiggling Ethernet connectors until the sound stopped. And that&amp;#x27;s how he found the intermittent failure.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1] &amp;lt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ftp.arl.army.mil&amp;#x2F;~mike&amp;#x2F;ping.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ftp.arl.army.mil&amp;#x2F;~mike&amp;#x2F;ping.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ryanmcbride</author><text>a billion years ago I piped say and some various noise files into ffmpeg to make audios that sounded like numbers stations, I don&amp;#x27;t think it would run anymore but it was a lot of fun :D</text></comment>