Sound notification for chat message

[BloodyIron]

Can we get a sound to play when someone types a message in the text chat portion of Talk please? It's so easy to miss that someone has typed a message right now!

[nickvergessen]

Sorry sound playing is not possible without user interaction, see nextcloud/notifications#117

[BloodyIron]

Hi @nickvergessen ,

I've found a bunch of resources that talk about Sound in Push Notifications as part of the standard:

• https://web-push-book.gauntface.com/demos/notification-examples/

(many more elsewhere)

However, I do agree it seems like current browsers don't support the sound notification. And I can't find why, or when this will change.

Is there any way we could keep this issue open waiting for browsers to gain support for this? Because I really want this to eventually be added, as having non-audible notifications for spreed messages and such is really easily ignored/accidentally missed.

[nickvergessen]

Sadly it's the other way around,
Notification.sound was part of the standard and has been deprecated, that's why it's listed in "Obsolete handlers" 😿
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notification#Obsolete_handlers

[BloodyIron]

So what is the long-term way we (as a society, not even just the scope of this discussion) can address this functional need?
What about using WebRTC for "notification"-esque outcomes? Ala Discord/Riot

[jookk]

sound notifications are missing on new messages. Now messaging and no new msg notification 👎
possible someway?

[nickvergessen]

There are text notifications and browser/os notifications.

Sound is not possbile because Firefox and Chrome (both supported browsers atm) prevent playing audio without direct user interaction.

[alauzon]

FaceBook does it with Messenger. Why can't we do it also?

[honzapatCZ]

Bump, How can facebook do it while we cant?