Talking Clock

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Announce the time periodically, set custom recurring reminders and display time.

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Description from store Overview Talking clock provides time reminder and custom reminder functions, suitable for time and periodic task reminders in daily work and life. It can also display date and time. Reminder methods include voice announcement and system notifications. This extension is especially suitable for people who often work for a long time with desktop computer, such as writers, programmers, and people who work remotely or indoors. • Time reminder helps to manage the time while focusing on the work. • Custom reminders are suitable for periodic daily affairs, such as "Remind me to have lunch at 11:30 every day". 1. Time Reminder It announces the time periodically by voice engine and/or system notification. The time interval can be set in the options of the extension: 5 minutes / 10 minutes / 15 minutes / 20 minutes / 30 minutes / 1 hour / 2 hours / 3 hours. 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. 2. Custom Reminder Users can add custom reminders. Supported reminder types include: • Only once: only reminds on a specific date. • Daily reminder: reminder at one or more time every day. • Weekly reminder: choose one or more days from Monday to Sunday. • Monthly reminder: choose one or more days from the 1st day to the last day every month. • Annual reminder: choose one or more days every year, such as "Birthday reminder". All types can set one or more reminder time on the reminder day. In this way, on the one hand, it can meet the needs of multiple reminders in one day for one thing. 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. On the other hand, multiple reminder time can be set for important things to avoid missing it. 3. Clock The popup page displays current time and date by clicking the extension icon. In addition, the extension icon itself can also display the time (not enabled by default). In the options for clock settings, you can set: • Display analog clock or digital clock. • Whether to display seconds. • Whether to display the date. • Whether to display the time on the extension icon. 4. Other In the extensions keyboard shortcuts settings(chrome://extensions/shortcuts), you can set shortcuts for displaying the time and announcing the time. About Reminder Methods You can use one or both of two reminder methods: • Voice announcement: announce the time or custom content by Text-to-Speech engine. • System notification: send a desktop notification. The voice announcement will make a sound, so it may not be suitable for everyone. In addition, if you forget to turn on the speaker or the volume is too low, you will not hear it. System notification may also be missed if it disappears automatically. So: • System notification for time reminder will automatically disappear after a few seconds, because it's not very important. • Custom reminders are more important than time reminder. So to prevent missing it, system notification for custom reminders will disappear automatically after one minute by default, not a few seconds. You can set this behavior for each custom reminder separately. In summary, voice announcements and system notifications can complement each other to avoid missing reminder. About Text-to-Speech (TTS) TTS includes the TTS provided by the operating system and the remote TTS provided by the browser. The former can be adjusted in the operating system settings, while the latter depends on the network connection. 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. TTS is used by time reminder and custom reminders. In the extension options, you can set TTS voice. Each voice usually only supports text in one language, and may not read text correctly in other languages. How to open extension options? • Right-click the extension icon, then click Options. • Click the extension icon, move the mouse to the popup page, then click the setting icon in the upper right corner. This extension is not an alarm clock It is suitable for daily affairs, but it is not an alarm clock. For example, if you want to catch a plane or get up early, please do not rely on this extension. Because the extension cannot issue a reminder when you exit the browser or when the computer goes into sleep. So it is not suitable for very important things. Note: due to a browser restriction, reminders/notifications may be delayed for a little time (less than 1 minute).

Latest reviews

(2025-06-24) Isaac Edmund: Why won't my prefered talking clock settings work? Why won't it say "It's twenty-two o'clock?" I only hear twenty-two o'clock.
(2025-06-08) Adrelanine: I only get notifications alert but no sound... which is what I'm looking for
(2025-05-13) SkyEver: Love this. Works as described. I have it tell me the time on the quarter hour to keep me on top commitments. When you get into the flow, sometimes time just goes too fast. This slows it down. What might be nice is a random voice options (within a given language) so you don't get used to and tune out a given voice.
(2025-04-26) David: TOTALLY UNRELIABLE. When it works, it is fine, but for several years the talking clock only works when it feels like it, so it is completely useless. (Don't trust custom reminders. It will be a disaster) I would donate to Mr Han's otherwise good work, if he could find a way to keep it working, but he can't. From time to time, I give it another try (2022 - 2025) but it is hopeless. My latest attempt (Yet again) has it sending silent notifications but not talking. It is a waste of my time.
(2025-04-17) Jason Ax: This app worked great for about 3 weeks then the "talking" feature stopped working. All it does now is ding. I uninstalled it and reinstalled it and it still won't work. Too bad. It was promising.
(2025-03-22) Jurek Pazurek: I found a bug. The problem is that this add-on reads all custom reminders every time after starting Google Chrome.
(2025-03-12) imnotlole: Exactly what i need, would appreciate if an every minute option for time reminders gets added
(2025-02-11) Fidelity ALW: Very well thought out and put together nicely! Could use some other features I'll recommend later. Otherwise, does exactly what we want! Love the announce on command and scheduled!
(2025-01-14) Ross Vassev: Does exactly what it says!
(2024-12-02) Zhi Zhi: awesome!
(2024-10-26) P.S Mihalek: Exactly what I was looking for...
(2024-10-23) Curt: This extension is awesome. I've used it for long enough to leave a good review and I just want to say that this is amazing. Hearing the voice read the time is the best part about it and being able to set reminders of what the time is. I also get to meetings on time with this extension. Thank you so much developer.
(2024-10-20) Mary Becker: Same about voice stopped working happened right after a windows / chrome update.. talk to me!!!
(2024-10-17) Mookaney Amsal Zia: Hi was working great for the past week and now suddenly the voice notifs have stopped but the desktop notifications are still occurring please fix this i am heavily reliant on your extension much love and thank you
(2024-08-27) Priyen Shah: Allow custom text to be announced at the selected interval. For e.g., after every 30 min I want to be reminded to drink some water. Let the user choose between being told what the time is or any custom text. All good otherwise!!
(2024-08-01) nU8K: Please add sleep-time blacklist
(2024-07-02) Max Huang: NICE KIT
(2024-06-24) David: When it works, it is fine, but it stops working. For years the talking clock only works when it feels like it, so it is completely unreliable (Don't trust custom reminders) I would donate to Mr Han's otherwise good work, if he could find a way to keep it working an make it reliable. From time to time, I try again to make it work. My latest attempt has it sending silent notifications but not talking.
(2024-04-26) Thanigaivel Narasimhan: Please Add Every Minute.
(2024-04-19) Karen Krohn: I like this extension very much, but recently it has gone completely silent. How can I troubleshoot this?
(2024-02-19) MadeInUSA Review0: No options for muting during certain hours
(2024-01-30) Monon Ahmed: please add every minute vocal reminder please please. I would be more grateful . this extension is awesome.
(2023-08-21) Farhan Hussain: 1- custom reminder not performing actions - not showing notifications and no announcements. 2- time reminder not performing action either - no voice announcements and notifications. 3- time is stuck on the icon. not syncing with system.
(2023-08-21) Farhan Hussain: 1- custom reminder not performing actions - not showing notifications and no announcements. 2- time reminder not performing action either - no voice announcements and notifications. 3- time is stuck on the icon. not syncing with system.
(2023-08-05) laura mena: EXCELENTE....!!!!
(2023-06-18) Pyon Gmail: Great plugin! btw i have this use case, Can you just let the custom reminder to remind the time? instead of custom content. Or under time reminder/announce interval/every 1 hour let me choose the time. Example I only want it to remind during night.
(2023-06-18) Pyon Gmail: Great plugin! btw i have this use case, Can you just let the custom reminder to remind the time? instead of custom content. Or under time reminder/announce interval/every 1 hour let me choose the time. Example I only want it to remind during night.
(2023-06-12) Black On Track (B): Is there a way to make the notification interval beep every minute? I really like it, but it would be more useful if there were every 1 minute or custom options..! (By the way, thank you so much for making such a great extension..!!)
(2023-06-12) Black On Track (B): Is there a way to make the notification interval beep every minute? I really like it, but it would be more useful if there were every 1 minute or custom options..! (By the way, thank you so much for making such a great extension..!!)
(2023-04-18) 玄煊李: why there's no option to put am or pm anymore while setting the reminder? I missed my lunch because 1pm is not ringing because the system is receiving it as 1am lmfao. I already set it as 12hour system but how come I am unable to set the reminder in 12 hour setting? please fix this asap. :)
(2023-04-18) 玄煊李: why there's no option to put am or pm anymore while setting the reminder? I missed my lunch because 1pm is not ringing because the system is receiving it as 1am lmfao. I already set it as 12hour system but how come I am unable to set the reminder in 12 hour setting? please fix this asap. :)
(2023-04-16) alaska Canyon: what nice
(2023-04-16) alaska Canyon: what nice
(2023-03-30) RJ: It would have been nice, if there was an option to repeat reminder, Every __ min! i hope developer gives this feature in the next update! 🤞
(2023-03-30) RJ: It would have been nice, if there was an option to repeat reminder, Every __ min! i hope developer gives this feature in the next update! 🤞
(2023-03-20) Kyotofatcat: Great extension, it is fantastic. It would be more intuitive if the custom multiple remainders could be sorted by date and time in ascending or descending order.
(2023-03-20) Kyotofatcat: Great extension, it is fantastic. It would be more intuitive if the custom multiple remainders could be sorted by date and time in ascending or descending order.
(2022-12-26) Shu Jie: Useful for those not having fixed working schedule. Would love to have it as my phone app if possible :D
(2022-12-26) Shu Jie: Useful for those not having fixed working schedule. Would love to have it as my phone app if possible :D
(2022-12-20) 1953HLH: It doesn't work when browser is closed.
(2022-12-20) 1953HLH: It doesn't work when browser is closed.
(2022-10-31) F FEPA: ✅Funciona como reminder con sonido y texto. ✅Puedes crear reminder especificos que se repitan cada cierto tiempo, en un dia de la semana especifico (custom reminders) u otros que aparezcan cada cierto tiempo segun marcas de tiempo predeterminadas (time reminders). ✅Puedes elegir formato 12h/24h. ✅Es muy ligera en espacio y recursos(ocupa menos de 1MB). ✅Bastante comoda de usar, las opciones se abren en una tab para realizar todos los cambios desde un mismo lugar. ✅Al pulsar el icono de la app muestra un reloj con los reminders mas proximos. ✅Si no tienes la voz de Microsoft instalada (75-85MB) puedes usar ESpeak de Sourceforge(3MB) y podras usarla en el anuncio del Custom reminder que has creado. ✅Si quieres crear una entrada custom reminder, y elegir la frecuencia de aviso una vez cada mes y en su dia final, podras activar una opcion del "ultimo dia" para forzar que te recuerde solo el ultimo dia del mes (sin conocer especificamente si ese mes termina en 30 o 31). ❌NEGATIVO : No poder usar sonidos precargados (interno en la extension) para las alarmas en los reminders (como un sonido de campana) o un archivo de audio que puedas cargar localmente desde tu PC.
(2022-09-29) Γιάννης Γιαννόπουλος: I would like to have a "Sleep mode" option where for some hours there will be no voice announcement of the time. Other than that, i think it's a very usefull plugin..
(2022-09-29) Γιάννης Γιαννόπουλος: I would like to have a "Sleep mode" option where for some hours there will be no voice announcement of the time. Other than that, i think it's a very usefull plugin..
(2022-09-16) P F: Its the best option on the store but its unreliable. Ive noticed that it will randomly not work. I set it for every 30 minutes and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt. It just didnt which is what prompted me to write this review. A few times now Ill just be looking at the windows clock waiting for it to go from XX:29 to XX: 30 for example. And theres no pop up nor sound. Sometimes it WILL work but i need it to work 100% of the time.
(2022-09-16) P F: Its the best option on the store but its unreliable. Ive noticed that it will randomly not work. I set it for every 30 minutes and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesnt. It just didnt which is what prompted me to write this review. A few times now Ill just be looking at the windows clock waiting for it to go from XX:29 to XX: 30 for example. And theres no pop up nor sound. Sometimes it WILL work but i need it to work 100% of the time.
(2022-09-13) SBC - Pentinio, Kate Lindsay, P.: it works perfectly fine as others said but it won't work when there's a background music.
(2022-09-13) katie: it works perfectly fine as others said but it won't work when there's a background music.
(2022-08-22) Mekisha Telfer: This is one of my all-time favorite Chrome extensions. As someone with ADHD who suffers from time blindness, this talking clock keeps me from losing huge chunks of my day to a single task. Time feels a liiiiitle less like me enemy when it's running. MY ONLY REQUEST: timer options for the mute function (mute for 30 minutes; mute for 1 hour; etc) where the talking clock automatically unmutes after a certain amount of time. I take a lot of video calls for work using a program outside of Chrome, and I have to mute the extension. But because of my aforementioned ADHD, I often forget to turn it back on and lose days of glorious time keeping from the Talking Clock.
(2022-08-22) Mekisha Telfer: This is one of my all-time favorite Chrome extensions. As someone with ADHD who suffers from time blindness, this talking clock keeps me from losing huge chunks of my day to a single task. Time feels a liiiiitle less like me enemy when it's running. MY ONLY REQUEST: timer options for the mute function (mute for 30 minutes; mute for 1 hour; etc) where the talking clock automatically unmutes after a certain amount of time. I take a lot of video calls for work using a program outside of Chrome, and I have to mute the extension. But because of my aforementioned ADHD, I often forget to turn it back on and lose days of glorious time keeping from the Talking Clock.

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