I appreciate the pointer, but I’m afraid I’m much more of a musician with novel interface ideas than a programmer. I have enough on my hands just keeping up with all the beta software I’m dealing with because of moving to an M1 MBP.
But if someone made a simple object that I could load with a short sound and have play immediately in response to a cursor hover (bonus points for also triggering a new graphic image/hilite) then I would be so happy.