A system, method and storage medium for providing an emergency alert includes reading tone, using one or more processors, information and volume level information corresponding to an emergency sound generator from memory coupled to the one or more processors; and controlling, using the one or more processors, an output sound of the emergency sound generator based on the tone information and volume level information. The tone information includes data of frequency variation over a predetermined period, and the volume level information includes data of volume level variation over the predetermined period.