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About Serious Notification - Speak Alerts Aloud

Serious Notification speaks your Chrome browser notifications aloud so you never break focus to check what came in. Most notifications are not worth your attention. This extension lets you set keywords — type "urgent, meeting, payment, deadline" and only notifications containing those words get spoken aloud. Everything else stays silent. Your browser becomes a voice notification reader that filters the noise and surfaces what actually matters. Built for people who do focused, heads-down work. Developers in the middle of a build. Writers in Pomodoro mode. Designers in a deep creative session. Remote workers on video calls. Instead of glancing at the screen every time an alert arrives, you keep your eyes and your attention where they belong. The extension reads the notification aloud only when something genuinely needs you. HOW IT WORKS 1. Install the extension — no account required, no broad-access warning at install 2. Open the popup and click "Turn on to hear alerts" — Chrome will ask for site access once, in context, after you understand what the extension does 3. Type your keywords (urgent, calendar, payment, boss, deadline — whatever counts for you) 4.