How do I make JavaScript beep?

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I want my web page to beep whenever a user exceeds the maximum character limit of my <textarea>.

beep audio browser javascript
17 Answers

It's not possible to do directly in JavaScript. You'll need to embed a short WAV file in the HTML, and then play that via code.

An Example:

<script>
function PlaySound(soundObj) {
  var sound = document.getElementById(soundObj);
  sound.Play();
}
</script>

<embed src="success.wav" autostart="false" width="0" height="0" id="sound1"
enablejavascript="true">

You would then call it from JavaScript code as such:

PlaySound("sound1");

This should do exactly what you want - you'll just need to find/create the beep sound yourself, which should be trivial.

user_443890

Now it easy enough with JavaScript AudioContext API. It fully supported by major desktop and mobile web browsers...

let context = null;

const beep = (freq = 520, duration = 200, vol = 100) => {
    const oscillator = context.createOscillator();
    const gain = context.createGain();
    oscillator.connect(gain);
    oscillator.frequency.value = freq;
    oscillator.type = "square";
    gain.connect(context.destination);
    gain.gain.value = vol * 0.01;
    oscillator.start(context.currentTime);
    oscillator.stop(context.currentTime + duration * 0.001);
}

document.querySelector('button').addEventListener('click', function () {
    context = new AudioContext();
    beep();
});

I wrote a small application that plays music from the Mario game without any audio file, just runtime. In my opinion it’s interesting, you can see the source code and listen it.

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user_73883070

Using CSS you can do it if you add the following style to a tag, but you will need a wav file:

<style type="text/css">
        .beep {cue: url("beep.wav") }
</style>

var body=document.getElementByTagName("body");
body.className=body.className + " " + "beep";
user_5674250

This code supports sequencing of multiple beeps, as well as gradual change in frequency ('ramp' flag). Both examples are given below.

<script>
var audioContext = null;
var oscillatorNode = null;
var stopTime = 0;

function beep (frequency, durationSec, ramp=false)
{
    if (oscillatorNode == null) {
        audioContext = new (window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext) ();
        stopTime = audioContext.currentTime;

        oscillatorNode = audioContext.createOscillator();
        oscillatorNode.type = "sine";
        oscillatorNode.connect (audioContext.destination);
        if (ramp) {
            oscillatorNode.frequency.setValueAtTime (frequency, stopTime);
        }
        oscillatorNode.start ();
        oscillatorNode.onended = function() {
            oscillatorNode = null;
            audioContext = null;
        }
    }

    if (ramp) {
        oscillatorNode.frequency.linearRampToValueAtTime (frequency, stopTime); // value in hertz
    } else {
        oscillatorNode.frequency.setValueAtTime (frequency, stopTime);  // value in hertz
    }

    stopTime += durationSec;
    oscillatorNode.stop (stopTime);
}
function test1()
{
        beep (250, 0.5);
        beep (1000, 0.2);
        beep (550, 0.5);
}
    
function test2()
{
        beep (50, 2, true);
        beep (5000, 2, true);
        beep (50, 0, true);
}
</script>
    
<button onclick='test1()'>Beep!</button>
<button onclick='test2()'>Beep(ramped)!</button>
user_87416730

There's no crossbrowser way to achieve this with pure javascript. Instead you could use a small .wav file that you play using embed or object tags.

Darin_294070 
<html>
<head>
    <script src='https://surikov.github.io/webaudiofont/npm/dist/WebAudioFontPlayer.js'></script>
    <script src='https://surikov.github.io/webaudiofontdata/sound/0000_JCLive_sf2_file.js'></script>
    <script>
        var selectedPreset=_tone_0000_JCLive_sf2_file;
        var AudioContextFunc = window.AudioContext || window.webkitAudioContext;
        var audioContext = new AudioContextFunc();
        var player=new WebAudioFontPlayer();
        player.loader.decodeAfterLoading(audioContext, '_tone_0000_JCLive_sf2_file');
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <p><a href="#" onmousedown="player.queueWaveTable(audioContext, audioContext.destination, selectedPreset, 0, 55, 3.5);">Play a note</a></p>
    <hr/>
    <p><a href="https://github.com/surikov/webaudiofont">source</a></p>
</body>

listen here https://jsbin.com/lamidog/1/edit?html,output

user_3400120

You need a sound file to be served from somewhere. Here's the code from Scriptaculous's Sound library:

//Default:
<embed style="height:0" id="sound_#{track}_#{id}" src="#{url}" loop="false" autostart="true" hidden="true"/>

//For Gecko:
if(Prototype.Browser.Gecko && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Win") > 0){
  if(navigator.plugins && $A(navigator.plugins).detect(function(p){ return p.name.indexOf('QuickTime') != -1 }))
    Sound.template = new Template('<object id="sound_#{track}_#{id}" width="0" height="0" type="audio/mpeg" data="#{url}"/>');
  else if(navigator.plugins && $A(navigator.plugins).detect(function(p){ return p.name.indexOf('Windows Media') != -1 }))
    Sound.template = new Template('<object id="sound_#{track}_#{id}" type="application/x-mplayer2" data="#{url}"></object>');
  else if(navigator.plugins && $A(navigator.plugins).detect(function(p){ return p.name.indexOf('RealPlayer') != -1 }))
    Sound.template = new Template('<embed type="audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin" style="height:0" id="sound_#{track}_#{id}" src="#{url}" loop="false" autostart="true" hidden="true"/>');
  else
    Sound.play = function(){};
}
user_502140
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