Back around 2013 or so, I worked at a startup called Incredible Labs that made a virtual personal assistant project called "Donna". At some point, we decided we wanted our own notification sound. I decided that it might be fun to throw together a little Python script that used some simple sound synthesis techniques to put together some options. This is the result of that tiny side project.

I always meant to do more with this, and even considered writing a set of posts--or even a book--on how I approached this. That never happened, and in the meantime, I think some others have done similar projects, likely better than I would have!

So at the very least, I thought it would be fun to share this script as a little piece of my own history.

The second output, "beepb", was the sound we eventually chose as the official Donna notification beep.