Imagine diagnosing your app health like you could diagnose your connection speed of a dial-up modem.

Allow me to point out a very cool project I saw in the early 2000s, which unfortunately seems to have been abandoned and forgotten: http://peep.sourceforge.net/intro.html (Peep (The Network Auralizer): Monitoring your network with sound).

But sometimes I actually want that! Like, if there was a switch I could flip to turn on audio cues every time a window's contents are updated, or new lines appear in a terminal window. And every window update would be tagged with a different sound for error, warning, info, success, etc.

I know you can configure your terminal to play a BEL sound, but I'm looking for something system-wide. I want it like the movies, so I can pay attention to something else and not have to check in on the progress of my compilation or transcoding or long download.

     -a      Audible.  Include a bell (ASCII 0x07) character in the output
             when any packet is received.  This option is ignored if other
             format options are present.

  && say 'All done, come get some'

    && espeak "job's done"

Shell

  # system beep; also flashes the screen if you have that enabled in accessibility
  osascript -e 'beep'
  
  # play the sound file given by the file system the path
  afplay /System/Library/Sounds/Hero.aiff

  beep
  
  do shell script "afplay '/System/Library/Sounds/Hero.aiff'"
  

  $.NSBeep()
  
  // search for and play a sound file; the lookup path is defined by macOS
  $.NSSound.soundNamed('Glass').play

$ say "Your build is done."