Feature request: timeout sounds

OGS Development
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I recently played more and more live games on OGS and I found that a relatively large number of these tends to be won/lost by timeout. Far larger than I have experienced on other sites. However, on all the other sites I played the players are warned by some sort of sound to give them one last chance.

On OGS instead, I have lost several games myself, where I had a timesuji prepared already, but got lost on reading another part of the board for so long that the game suddenly was over. From the frequency of timeouts I observe, I can but assume that the same thing happens to my opponents.

I am a bit torn apart though on this feature, as obviously in a real-world tournament we would not have something like this and it is equally fair to demand the removal of such a sound for that reason. So essentially, this is much a feature request as a request for discussion. I have no experience at all on real tournament games, so my judgement may well be off here. Though I have that feeling that in Go the most typical outcome of any game should not be a win by timeout.

Maybe someone can shed more light on this with hard data regarding the relative number of games decided by timeouts on OGS vs other online-sites vs real-world tournament/timed games?

From my current (possibly prejudiced) point of view though, I dearly miss a sort of sound like a countdown of the last byo-yomi seconds, or at least a warning sound 3 seconds before the period ends.

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Hm, we do have count down times, and 3 second beeps before each period ends… I take it these aren’t working for you? (Probably silly question but is your sound enabled under settings?)

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Oh… interesting. Are they enabled/disabled independently from the stone sounds maybe? I’ve been playing these games on my Nexus 10 and I heard the move sounds just fine.

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honestly, 3 seconds isn’t enough to keep the per-turn timer aware, and tends to induce panic.

I’d love the option of the ING-style audio, giving spoken intervals of every minute, every ten seconds from 50 to 10, then a simple countdown.

Also, Like he said, have Tak sounds enabled or disabled separately. Maybe have other sound options, bell chime, a softer tak, a harder tak, etc, with “none” on the list.

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Hmm interesting, I’ll do some testing on that and see if i can figure out what’s going on

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More options would be great, though we’re partly limited by the fact that we don’t have any audio samples for anything other than the digits 1 through 10 :slight_smile:

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There’s a speech synthesis API in Chrome (and I believe Safari):

var msg = new SpeechSynthesisUtterance('10 minutes remaining');
msg.lang = 'en-US';
window.speechSynthesis.speak(msg);
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Hah that’s fun :slight_smile: I would like a cross platform solution though… it does sound pretty good though, way better than the old school robot voices :slight_smile: