A user-programmable audio alert system, device, and method includes an audio
alert
created by a user and programmed into a device, such as a wireless telephone. A
user programs and stores in the device a data structure relating an audio alert
triggering event to the audio alert. When the device detects an occurrence of the
particular audio alert triggering event, the device emits the audio alert related
to the triggering event. As such, users are able to customize audio alerts that
are easily recognizable and that are associated with a particular event, or signal.
Audio alerts can be programmed using different devices and in various formats and
can be transmitted to other devices. An audio alert triggering event can modulate
an audio alert according to an external variable.