Talking Notifications

Applications that intercept notifications and convert these messages to speech are nothing new. A popular open source program called Voice Notify is a personal favorite.[80] But if you already use Tasker, these types of applications are unnecessary since Tasker offers excellent built-in support for a variety of ways to use and interact with notifications.

This project will essentially replicate entirely in Tasker what programs like Voice Notify can do. We will also use Tasker’s built-in regular expression capabilities to filter out notifications that we don’t need to hear. Remarkably, we will be able to do all this in just a few simple steps. All we need to do is define a single task and profile for the job.

Tasker’s ...

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