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C program to make a beep sound

Generate beep sound in C language: Here, we are going to learn how to make a beep sound in C programming language?
Submitted by Nidhi, on July 21, 2021

Problem statement

The "\a" escape sequence is used to make a beep sound i.e., it is used to generate a tone sound on the speaker. The beep sound can be used for the debugging or any other purpose.

C program to make a beep sound

The source code to make a beep sound is given below. The given program is compiled and executed using GCC compile on UBUNTU 18.04 OS successfully.

// C program to make beep sound

#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    printf("Beep sound started\n");
    printf("\a");
    printf("Beep sound stopped\n");

    return 0;
}

Output:

Beep sound started
Beep sound stopped

Explanation

In the main() function, we used "\a" escape sequence to make a beep sound.

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