Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Microsoft Is Abandoning Windows 11 SE Date: 14 Aug 2025 04:38:06 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <106ukm1$35g8p$3@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106v67a$1cgol$1@news1.tnib.de> <106vfvv$3bpmd$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <106vi4r$3c9cr$2@dont-email.me> <3ihcmlx47d.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <107070d$3hvho$1@dont-email.me> <1071hb2$3qqje$2@toylet.eternal-september.org> <1071ime$3qrld$2@dont-email.me> <10721bg$3uf46$1@toylet.eternal-september.org> <1073tgu$empg$6@dont-email.me> <689722de$0$28075$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <107gib4$3j56j$7@dont-email.me> <107hhhe$3pitk$1@dont-email.me> <4N6cnRbbIKoU0AD1nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net VtEIebv8zHZN5+rSL6Q7UA6N6tefaecoCsOQ0nKebuAsfjAuG7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:eLi0Ehqpuuu82qDM6Un38rmYHlk= sha256:7o+iZCygeffffd/qrusfAJ8Fi6iKTYnzyGLbM4X0Ess= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70994 alt.comp.os.windows-11:22072 On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:44:15 -0400, c186282 wrote: > Basically everything now uses a 'sound chip'. It's > not really the same as the old PC speaker beeps. I imagine Linux has one if I looked hard enough but Windows has or had a text to speech API that worked rather well. I did a proof of concept with it but having a computer chattering away in a dispatch center didn't sound like a great idea. We do give them the option of configuring .wav files to be played for alerts and so forth instead of beeping like the Road Runner. In the early 2000s when QA was testing the beeps it could get annoying and I threatened to cut the speaker wires only to find there wasn't a speaker only a piezoelectric chip hidden someplace on the mobo.