I don't think those speakers are capable of voice. They can handle a few different beep tones and that's about it. The song was not like listening to Spotify, it was played using beep tones.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

I had an Athlon motherboard with voice POST messages… one night I woke up to it saying “your CPU has a problem!” over and over and was freaked out until I was completely awake and figure out what was wrong.

It wasn’t high quality coming through the piezo speaker, but it was good enough.

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I definitely remember short 2 or 3 second clips of relatively high quality music being played through our family's IBM XT's motherboard speaker at one point using a demo we got from a BBS or the Public Domain Software site in the mid-80s. It wasn't easy but some madman made a proof-of-concept that did it and it was incredible at the time.

[–] awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Would any of your tech-handicapped relatives actually pay it any attention, though?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes

[–] awesome_lowlander@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Can we trade relatives?

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 5 months ago

Tip: be passive aggressive and sarcastic when helping them. It both teaches them the solution in a memorable way, makes them not want to get help from you again, AND makes them think twice before doing so.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

"my shits fucked yo"