Adium Growl voice per contact

[markfoodyburton]

I'd love to be able to set a different voice for each IM contact.... (ichatter used to do this, but is no longer available :-( )
I'd love a empty chat window to pop-up, and then be filled, when somebody starts typing.... (chat used to do this, before you got rid of Chat because it's so broken now-days, and opted for Adium because it's better)

[The_Tick]

The adium folks have sound support built into their product, they may be able to do something like this without even needing Growl.

[markfoodyburton]

Sure - they an already use speech - but combining the effort should make a better - more reusable - result :-)
different voice per email address - etc...

[The_Tick]

Noted, but that's not what you originally requested. Maybe if you rephrased your request that'd help

[markfoodyburton]

good point well made.

So - the request is to have Growl have a voice per ..... where the application gets to fill in the per - what. The example I gave was Adium (also being a cocoaforge project) - but I guess, any app should be able to use the API... Thats the power of doing it with Growl, as opposed to putting the same ability in (e.g.) Adium - which is why Growl is the right approach... if the Adium guys are about to do something like this - then get them to spend the effort on Growl, and hey presto somebody else can use the functionality..... ain't that the plan? :-)

Likewise - the request for an "empty" message... Why not have the ability for an application to say "MMm, I'm going to have something to say, just not sure what yet" - I'm sure Mail would make use of that all the time :-( :-(