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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> Is anyone interested in implementing asynchronous playing of sound in
> Emacs?  Forking sounds like a rather heavyweight method; perhaps the
> sound output facilities have asynchronous output features.  Gerd,
> do you know what is available?

I'm afraid I don't know.  I'm relatively sure that I didn't see
asynchronous playing of sound mentioned in the docs I found when I
wrote the code some years ago, but docs were pretty scarce and bad at
that time, so I wouldn't take it for granted that there in no such 
facility.