beep

Produces a sinusoidal tone or a standard notification sound.

Syntax

• beep()

• beep(kind)

  • kind is a string

• beep(ν, dur)

  • ν is a positive integer

  • dur is a non-negative integer

Description

• beep() emits the system’s default message sound. The sound is played asynchronously.

• beep(kind) emits a specific system message sound. kind is one of the following values:

  • default

  • information

  • warning

  • error

  • question

The sound is played asynchronously.

• beep(ν, dur) emits a sinusoidal tone with frequency ν and duration dur milliseconds.

  The sound is played synchronously. The function doesn’t return until dur milliseconds have elapsed and it cannot be aborted.

  For anything but very brief sounds (< 1 s), it is advised that the SineTone and PlaySound functions are used instead, optionally with wait to simulate synchronicity.

See also

• SineTone

• PlaySound

• wait