An alert system with at least one microphone, an output device, and a processor in communication with the at least one microphone via a microphone communication link and with the output device via an output device communication link. The processor is configured to receive over the microphone communication link captured sound data based on a sound captured by the at least one microphone, determine whether the captured sound data corresponds to a first alert sound of a plurality of alert sound data, and in response to determining that the captured sound data corresponds to the first alert sound, determine an output alert profile for the first alert sound. The processor sends, to the output device, instructions to perform the output alert profile and the output device may be configured to perform the output alert profile upon receiving the instructions.