Consistent sound

[Eben Eliason]

I, too, find this a very nice idea.  Not only does it encourage
culturally appropriate sounds, but it simply encourages context
appropriate sounds in general.  Right now there is a lack of audible
feedback in a number of the games on the system, and said feedback
would really enhance the experience, especially for kids.  This would
give developers a simple way to accomplish this without having to
locate, record, package, and play their own sounds unless they want
to, which also saves some space.

Of course, I too lack any technical knowledge in this area, but am
interested to see where it leads.

- Eben

On 11/19/07, Samuel Klein <meta.sj at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 19, 2007 12:31 PM, Gerard J. Cerchio <gjpc at circlesoft.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am just beginning to get involved with the OLPC so please forgive me
> > if this topic is already covered. I am also new to python so my learning
> > curve is somewhat steep.  I am attempting to build a go game activity
> > starting with the connect_activity. I would like to produce sounds for
> > various game play events such as victory, loss, atari, etc.  I would
> > also like the sounds the child hears from the OLPC be consistent and
> > culturally appropriate. I would posit that if all the activities made
> > consistent "utterances" to the child, the value of the OLPC learning
> > experience would be enhanced.
> >
> > I would like to suggest a way to give a this consistent localized sound
> > personality to the OLPC through the csound object.
> >
> > I propose that there be a simple csound method:
> >
> >     emote( emotion, intensity )
> >
> > where
> >
> >     emotion is a string index into a table of localized sounds
> >     intensity is an integer that regulates the degree of the emotion
> >
> > Sample emotion strings would be:
> >
> >     "win" - produces a reward sound appropriate to the locale
> >     "lose" - opposite of win
> >     "yes" - indicate acceptance
> >     "no" - opposite of no
> >     "warn" - indicate more thought may be required
> >     "approval" - encourage
> >     "disapproval" - discourage
>
> Maybe this covers more than just emotions; I have no comment on how to
> implement this in csound & sugar, but it is a charming idea.
>
> SJ
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