Re: [OpenVerse] Speech and other sounds

[Alex Quintana <hillie@atonal.org>]

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On Sun, 7 Nov 1999, Dan Mueth wrote:

> How about configuring the sound it makes?  Right now it beeps whenever
> someone talks.  This is nice, especially if people aren't very talkative
> and you want to know when people start talking.

I agree that there should be a sound configuration.  The actual playing of
the sounds would be easy to do via an external sound program since we're
talking tcl here. and the program would be configured just like you
configure the browser command.

> I guess the general case is to have every "event" tied to a sound and then
> have a sound configuration center where people select which sounds are
> associated with which events.  A sound for a file dropped.  A sound for
> moving around the screen....  

Personally for that, I would be careful with what options are turned on by
default in that :) I am reminded of ICQ 99a where every event down to
keystrokes in chat sessions have sounds, and it comes by default with
every single sound turned on, and is annoying as hell :)

I would push for maybe the default configuration to have maybe just sounds
for messages turned on.  Like, the other sounds could have default
soundfiles configured but unchecked, or something.

> A more complicated idea would be that each person has their own sound,
> just like they have their own avatar.  I worry this would become obscene
> however, so I prefer the earlier ideas above.

Hm, this sounds a bit interesting.  Maybe each person could have a
personal beep sound or something, accessed via ^G or something, and there
could be an option to dl those sounds like dl'ing avatars option.  and
people who don't wanna dl the sounds could turn that option off.

and just like avatars can only be up to 320x200, the wavs or whatever
could be limited by filesize.

.auddpltes <<

       "...in whatever you do, if you can't break new ground, what's
                        the point?" - James Cameron

                       Hillie  (hillie@amigascne.org)
                           http://www.atonal.org/


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