Alarm Monitoring & Audible Alerts?

A good inexpensive speaker that I use for this purpose is the Fabriq speaker. It supports DLNA and works well for TTS using the Generic Media Renderer linked to above. I use webCore to send voice events to it, but the Message Central smartapp referred to looks pretty flexible/powerful if you want to stick w/just using a smartapp.

The Fabriq frequently goes on sale for $30-$40, unfortunately is not on sale right now.

https://www.amazon.com/FABRIQ-Portable-Bluetooth-Speaker-Amazon/dp/B01LYZAWRO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515168288&sr=8-1&keywords=fabrique+speaker