Mathematica supports state-of-the-art sound generation, providing both arbitrary waveform synthesis from functions and data, and symbolic note-based MIDI-style sound synthesis. It also supports translation of arbitrary text, math, programs and graphics to speech.
Play — play a function by taking it as the waveform for a sound
ListPlay — play a list of amplitude values
Sound — sound wrapper with timing information
SoundNote — music-like sound note
SampledSoundList — sampled sound from a list of data
EmitSound — emit a symbolically specified sound
Import,
Export — import and export sounds
"MIDI" — music-oriented note format
"WAV",
"AU",
"FLAC",
... — sampled sounds
SystemDialogInput — use your computer system to record a sound for input
Speak — speak a representation of any
Mathematica expression
SpokenString — give the text for a spoken representation of an expression
