Bell sound byte is driving me crazy...Chromium?

Every minute or two a bell audio sound byte is emitted from my audio system. I notice this happens only when chromium is up. It is not coming from any particular website and typically starts after chromium is acivated.
Ideally, I would like to find the cause and eliminate it rather than "mute" any aspect of my sound system. The "xset -b" command was attempted with no resolve.
Can somebody suggest a means of tracking the specific cause of this problem - maybe the ability to monitor and identify the program talking to the sound system when it happens. This problem started recently, and I typically keep my system up to date on a daily basis.
Alsa and Pulseaudio are loaded on my system.
Help!!!!

Thanks, but I am sure the sound is not coming from the mainboard built-in speaker.
I have watched this closely by turning off apps/websites and narrowed it down to an affiliation with the browser. I think it's coming from some browser app, possibly injected by a website, but really don't know enough about how these apps are able to attach themselves to a browser. Then again I could be wrong. I would like the find the source of this annoyance and tell the world. Ya know how that goes.
I get some hits when searching the web for this problem, but all solutions recommend trying to turn the sound system off in some manner. I would rather find out what's causing it.
Based on replies, there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of interest and maybe a road less traveled.
If not this problem, I would be interested in knowing how one might try to track down an application by monitoring a /dev or some socket. In this case, maybe there is a /dev that some app can monitor and produce reports on what programs attempt to use it.

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