Customer Reviews

Moshi Speak n Set Touch Activated Clock

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Bottom line: I really like this unique, voice-activated alarm clock. It only needs minor tweaking to be fabulous.

Here are the pros and cons:

Pros: Small. Takes up very little room on the nightstand. Attractive egg-shell-colored base with small square hard-plastic display. Because it's battery-powered (3 AAA), it will continue to work even when the power goes off. Small enough to pack for travel. Simple to use. This would be a great clock for someone with visual impairment (it will tell you the time and other data by voice) or difficulty with fine motor skills. Unlike earlier versions, this Moshi doesn't waste your time with unnecessary words. It is polite, e.g.: "Command, please." The female voice of Moshi is a soft alto voice that is easy to listen to. I worried that, after a while, I would find a clock voice irritating, but so far that hasn't happened.

Almost everything you need to do with this clock you can do by voice commands. My favorite voice command is "set alarm." I always hated having to set and re-set my old alarm based upon when my children needed to get to school or whether it was a weekend or weekday. I particularly hated holding down the "set alarm" button, only to run past the alarm time I wanted. My old alarm wouldn't let me back up and I would have to hold the button down again while it went completely around its 24 hour mechanism to return to the time I needed. Sometimes (was I pressing harder?) I would again miss my alarm time, and have to repeat the process. Aggravating! With Moshi, I simply press the small rectangular display and, in response to its succinct query, tell it the alarm time I want. It verbally confirms the alarm time, and I'm done. It takes about 10 seconds max to set the alarm! This feature alone is worth the price of the clock!

There are voice commands for virtually (but not all) functions for which you need a clock. By voice, it will tell you the time, alarm set time, room temperature, day and date. By voice, you can tell it "sleep sound," and it will play the pleasant sound of an ocean for 5 minutes to help you fall asleep.

Cons: You can't set "today's date" by voice. You have to use tiny buttons on the underside of the base and it's a bit of challenge to figure out how to do that. Once you set the date, though, it automatically knows the day of the week.

Although you have a choice of 3 alarm sounds, they are all unpleasant. I hope Moshi changes them in future versions. (You can get a snooze period and end the alarm for the moment by simply touching the display. It will allow you 2 9-minute snooze periods before it cuts off.) I reluctantly will live with the sounds, though, for the FABULOUS convenience of voice commands. It's a trade-off I happily make.

Nice clock and easy for me to use, but unfortunately I purchased it for my elderly mother who has retina degeneration and cannot see to tell the time. I don't recommend this for the elderly. It is too easy for them to set the alarm to the wrong time or set the clock to the wrong time etc. I recommend a clock you just have them press the button and it tells the time, date, and maybe even the temperature without the ability to set the time/alarm by talking to the clock. For the record I love it for myself it is kind of fun and has a sweet voice!

u have to repeat command over and over. If there is any sound in background it doesn't understand your voice.

I was skeptical about buying this clock from some of the reviews and I wish I would have listened to myself. The idea is great. Most of the time the clock recognizes the commands. I did not find the set up difficult at all. However, the slant of the clock makes it impossible to see when you are lying down unless you have the clock on a very low table. So, in the middle of the night the options are to either sit up (if you have the nightlight on continuously, which my son does) or to ask the clock the time (which in the middle of the night is pretty loud). Also, trying to get the alarm to not go off spontaneously has proven to be a challenge. I am sure that I have given the clock the command to turn off the alarm, but the next day it goes off again. It's a quandary. The solution is to turn off the alarm by using the button in the back, but that kind of defeats the voice command purpose in my opinion. Also, those buttons are pretty difficult to see. My son really likes the nightlight feature but wishes he could choose the color instead of "the firework show", as he calls it, or blue. For now, we moved it to a lower shelf next to his bed and are keeping the clock, but I would really consider if this is worth the money.

This little clock is hard to set and when I finally got it set, it would not keep the correct time. Only good thing I have to say is they gave me my money back with no problems.

This is a great concept that needs to be worked on. The clock does nit stay lit during the night and the volume is set on high with no low! The only other problem is when setting the alarm,you might have to repeat yourself 4 or 5 times because the clock gets your times wrong. Other than that it seems like a good alarm system

This is an very easy to use and practical clock. It is also a lot of fun!