Talking Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer

Althought this unit does not have a remote outdoor sensor, it does have some nice features such as a silence mode that cancels the hourly annoucement option during the hours you may be sleeping. It can also be set up to announce the tmeperture as an alarm clock, so much nicer to hear than the bleep from an alarm clock. The voice is pleasant to hear and is easy to understand. You can also set it for Celcius or Farenheit if you like. Easy to set up, and simple to use. great product at a great price.

I recently purchased the second one of these for my 97 year old mother. (After several years, the first one needed to be replaced.) Mother is nearly blind and cannot read a conventional thermometer. The talking thermometer solves this problem quite well. The voice is clear and she has no problem hearing it. Setting buttons are hidden under a sliding cover, so that only the TALK button is exposed, making it easy to find. She also appreciates the min/max feature that tells the highest and lowest temp over the past 24 hours, answering the question, "how cold did it get last night."My criticisms: The exterior temp sensor is wired, so that the thermometer must be placed near a window. This limits both where the outside sensor and inside unit can be placed. A wireless sensor would allow more flexibility and better placement of the outside sensor (e.g., to keep it out of the sun). Also, the voice announces 3 time in succession when the temperature goes above 100 or drops below 32. This can be annoying when the temperature drops below freezing in the middle of the night. And, those times when the temperature fluctuates around freezing it can get really annoying. There does not seem to be any way to turn this feature off. (Mother puts a pillow over it at such times.)

This was a very good choice for my sister who is legally blind. It was relatively easy for her to set up (with the use of her "reader"), so was glad that we had decided on this one. The only thing we would like to have an option with - being able to set the volume louder. It is fairly loud but if you aren't in the same room with it, it is difficult to hear it. For the money - this one is great!

If there were a minus star I could click that. This thermometer worked great for my blind father for the first 6 months or so. Then it started randomly giving you the temperature even in the middle of the night when he was sleeping. He finally had to take the batteries out but its pretty hard for a blind person to put AAA batteries back into that little compartment. I finally got a new one and the SAME THING HAPPENED. Susan in customer service was real helpful. haha. she kept telling me it had to be because I had an alarm set and finally said "Honestly, I think the situation is more how you are using the device rather than anything wrong with it.". If that were the case why would it work fine for the first 6 months??? I had told her that I would purchase another one if she thought that was what I needed to do but she wouldn't even answer that. VERY DISGUSTED with customer service and the product. :(

This model is not as good as previous models of this device. Volume stinks and you must keep it on the lowest volume or the voice is distorted badly, but since it is the only one available, You really don’t have much of a choice.

This was a replacement for my 15 year old model. This one works well; I hope it lasts as long!

We use these thermometers to measure temps in and outside of our home. We also use them to measure temps in our fish tanks to make sure they are staying above 70 degrees. The voice is a little raspy but it unconsistantly reads.Very good customer service.

I purchased 2 ofthese and on both I cannot turn off hurly reporting which is really annoying. And, of course,without knowing this would happenandlike most people, I disgarded the packaging because it seemed to work. It wasn't until hours lter and switching hourly reporting off, on & off again I realized there was a problem and can no longer return them. My advice, even though the product appears to be in good condition and works, hold on to packaging for at-least a week.