Alert Sounds

A function and demo of some alert sounds for user interface use.

Thi software generates sounds for use in alerting the user. Simply call MakeSound.m with a sound name and your computer emits a sound good for alerting the user or signaling when your program is finished doing something.

There are two scripts MakeSound.m and Demo.m. MakeSound.m is the function that generates the sounds. Demo.m is a script that plays all available sounds.

The sound names are given and described in the program comments. There are 10 sounds. The list of sound names are:

'gong' - the gong sound that comes with Matlab,

'chirp' - the bird chirp sound that comes with Matlab,

'train' - the train whistle sound that comes with Matlab,

'convex' - convex quadratic chirp sound,

'concave' - concave quadratic chirp sound,

'cahilo' - California high-low siren,

'eurohilo' - European high-low siren,

'usahilo' - USA high-low siren,

'twowhistle' - Double whistling sound,

'warble' - warbling sound.