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<\/a>.. The talking alarm clock. Suddenly Mr. Ed pop into my head.\u00a0 Anyway, Ivee, is a talking (or better voice actuate) alarm clock radio.\u00a0 Although its not perfect, its pretty darn impressive.\u00a0 On the plus side, it works using voice as you would expect.\u00a0 You can speak ‘hello ivee’ and then provide a number of commands. It does a pretty good job of understanding you.\u00a0 I like the idea that I can set, change and turn on the alarm without having to walk to the alarm clock.\u00a0 However my favorite feature is the timer. I can through voice actuation set a timer.\u00a0 Great when cooking! And funny enough I like that I can ask the time or temp without being near the clock.\u00a0 I even like turning on the radio using voice.\u00a0 Well mostly.\u00a0 One time it did not understand me but understood my girlfriend, and her accent is pretty strong!\u00a0 Also there are 6 ‘sleeping’ sounds you can play, like forest, ocean and soft tunes that you can play for a set time.\u00a0 Pretty cool.<\/p>\nNow here are not the so great parts.<\/p>\n
I used the voice command to set and turn on alarm one.\u00a0 Worked great.\u00a0 However, when I tried to turn off alarm 1, it keeped turning on and off alarm 2!\u00a0 WTH?\u00a0 Also I just moved into this place so it has a bit of an echo ( I moved from a really small apt so I do not have much) and that seem to through Ivee off a bit. Often I have to walk closer then I think I should have to do get Ivee to understand me. Another annoyance. You can use voice to turn the radio on, but once its one, Ivee will not take anymore commands.\u00a0 Grrr.\u00a0 Finally, Ivee seems to think I’m talking to it when I doing something else.\u00a0 Not even talking?\u00a0 I was cleaning the fireplace and some how the sounds of cleaning sounded like hello Ivee.\u00a0 Really odd.<\/p>\n
All and all its pretty cool.\u00a0 It has some uses but I would like a few bugs worked out before I would have it as my main alarm clock.\u00a0 There is a firmware update that might tweak a few things but I have not had time to install it yet. For this to really change how I think of using an alarm clock, I have to be able to do ALL functions from voice, and since turning on the radio stops all other commands, that is a big negative. And not being able to turn off Alarm 1 with my voice pretty much killed it.\u00a0 Still, when I get time I will update the firmware and give it another go.\u00a0 For now it will be a supplement clock for a few weeks.\u00a0 Lets see just how much I end of using it.<\/p>\n
You can get the clock now for $59.99.\u00a0 Careful though, there are a few versions out there, so pay attention to what you are buying if you do not use the Ivee site.<\/p>\n
Here is a list of the commands in case you were curious.<\/p>\n