It sounds a lot like “auditory icons” as used in Emacspeak [0] and some other environments to improve accessibility for people with vision impairments.
Bill Buxton [1] seems to have a good treatment of the subject but i don’t know what’s autoritative
Bill Buxton [1] seems to have a good treatment of the subject but i don’t know what’s autoritative
[0] https://tvraman.github.io/emacspeak/manual/Auditory-Icons.ht...
[1] https://www.billbuxton.com/AudioUI06icons.pdf