

Talking Desktop Clock 1.0.3 Preview Features: The Talking Desktop Clock application was designed to add new features to your system tray clock. Note: due to a browser restriction, reminders/notifications may be delayed for a little time (less than 1 minute).Talking Desktop Clock 1.0.3 Preview Description: So it is not suitable for very important things. Because the extension cannot issue a reminder when you exit the browser or when the computer goes into sleep. For example, if you want to catch a plane or get up early, please do not rely on this extension. It is suitable for daily affairs, but it is not an alarm clock.
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The operating system comes with a general voice effect, it is available offline the voice provided by the browser is usually better, but it requires network connection.

The former can be adjusted in the operating system settings, while the latter depends on the network connection. TTS includes the TTS provided by the operating system and the remote TTS provided by the browser. In summary, voice announcements and system notifications can complement each other to avoid missing reminder. You can set this behavior for each custom reminder separately. So to prevent missing it, system notification for custom reminders will disappear automatically after one minute by default, not a few seconds. Custom reminders are more important than time reminder.System notification for time reminder will automatically disappear after a few seconds, because it's not very important.System notification may also be missed if it disappears automatically. In addition, if you forget to turn on the speaker or the volume is too low, you will not hear it. The voice announcement will make a sound, so it may not be suitable for everyone. System notification: send a desktop notification.Voice announcement: announce the time or custom content by Text-to-Speech engine.You can use one or both of two reminder methods: In the extensions keyboard shortcuts settings(chrome://extensions/shortcuts), you can set shortcuts for displaying the time and announcing the time. Whether to display the time on the extension icon.In the options for clock settings, you can set: In addition, the extension icon itself can also display the time (not enabled by default). The popup page displays current time and date by clicking the extension icon. On the other hand, multiple reminder time can be set for important things to avoid missing it. For example, "Remind me to take medicine three times (in the morning, noon and evening) every day", just create a daily reminder, which sets three reminder time. In this way, on the one hand, it can meet the needs of multiple reminders in one day for one thing.

Annual reminder: choose one or more days every year, such as "Birthday reminder".Īll types can set one or more reminder time on the reminder day.Monthly reminder: choose one or more days from the 1st day to the last day every month.Weekly reminder: choose one or more days from Monday to Sunday.Daily reminder: reminder at one or more time every day.Only once: only reminds on a specific date.
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In addition, there are several DnD(do not disturb) settings which enabled by default, such as don't remind me time if the browser is in full screen or playing video. The time interval can be set in the options of the extension:ĥ minutes / 10 minutes / 15 minutes / 20 minutes / 30 minutes / 1 hour / 2 hours / 3 hours. It announces the time periodically by voice engine and/or system notification.
