diff --git a/gnu/packages/terminals.scm b/gnu/packages/terminals.scm
index 52767ba6cb..0b671d0ba9 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/terminals.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/terminals.scm
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Alex Griffin <a@ajgrf.com>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 David Craven <david@craven.ch>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
-;;; Copyright © 2016 José Miguel Sánchez García <jmi2k@openmailbox.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2016, 2017 José Miguel Sánchez García <jmi2k@openmailbox.org>
+;;; Copyright © 2017 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -326,3 +327,37 @@ configuration, testing, and debugging tool.  It has also serves well
 as a low-tech serial communications program to allow access to all
 types of devices that provide serial consoles.")
     (license license:gpl2+)))
+
+(define-public beep
+  (package
+    (name "beep")
+    (version "1.3")
+    (source (origin
+              (method url-fetch)
+              (uri (string-append "http://www.johnath.com/" name "/"
+                                  name "-" version ".tar.gz"))
+              (sha256
+               (base32
+                "0bgch6jq5cahakk3kbr9549iysf2dik09afixxy5brbxk1xfzb2r"))))
+    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+    (arguments
+     `(#:tests? #f                      ; no tests.
+       #:phases
+       (modify-phases %standard-phases
+         (delete 'configure)
+         (add-after 'unpack 'patch-makefile
+           (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+             (substitute* "Makefile" (("/usr") (assoc-ref outputs "out")))))
+         (add-before 'install 'create-output-directories
+           (lambda* (#:key outputs #:allow-other-keys)
+             (let ((out (assoc-ref %outputs "out")))
+               (mkdir-p (string-append out "/bin"))
+               (mkdir-p (string-append out "/man/man1"))))))))
+    (synopsis "Linux command-line utility to control the PC speaker")
+    (description "beep allows the user to control the PC speaker with precision,
+allowing different sounds to indicate different events.  While it can be run
+quite happily on the command line, its intended place of residence is within
+scripts, notifying the user when something interesting occurs.  Of course, it
+has no notion of what's interesing, but it's very good at that notifying part.")
+    (home-page "http://www.johnath.com/beep")
+    (license license:gpl2+)))