Tessa over at Sales Conversation is doing a survey on instant play audio on sites.
She wrote:

I recently did a survey on whether people like audio playing automatically on web pages or not.

Of the 81 people who responded:

80.2% (65) said they did not like automatic audio 13.6% (11) said they did like automatic audio 6.2% (5) had no opinion.

In fact quite a few people commented that if they come across a web page playing audio automatically, they immediately leave.

We will be learning how to put audio on sites but before we do that, check out Tessa’s survey and see what people are saying. In fact, vote while you are there.