emacspeak-sounds (Emacspeak User’s Manual

This module provides the interface for generating auditory icons in emacspeak.

Auditory icons should be used to provide additional feedback, not as a gimmick.
The interface should be usable at all times without the icons.
General principle for when to use an icon: Convey information about events taking place in parallel.
For instance, if making a selection automatically moves the current focus to the next choice, We speak the next choice, while indicating the fact that something was selected with a auditory icon.
This interface will assume the availability of a shell command play that can take one or more sound files and play them.
This module provides a mapping between names in the elisp world and actual sound files.
Modules that wish to use auditory icons should use these names, instead of actual file names.
As of Emacspeak 13.0, this module defines a themes architecture for auditory icons. Sound files corresponding to a given theme are found in appropriate subdirectories of emacspeak-sounds-directory.
The auditory icon player is configure via custom option emacspeak-play-program.

Command: emacspeak-sounds-select-theme (&optional theme) ¶

Select theme for auditory icons.

(fn &optional THEME)

Command: emacspeak-toggle-auditory-icons (&optional prefix) ¶

Toggle use of auditory icons.
Optional interactive PREFIX arg toggles global value.

(fn &optional PREFIX)

Variable: User Option emacspeak-play-program ¶

Play program.

Default Value: /usr/bin/aplay