Talking Clocks

Either you hate or love it.

"Talking clocks are the worst ever invention of humanity," says my son.
Haha!

I'm on the opposite side of that! I like talking clocks especially when I am in the middle of doing something that I literally lose track of time. I needed to hear the clock to set my brain to hurry up more or adjust my tasks. For example, it is very useful to hear how many minutes I had been in the shower or how many minutes I should need to get dress.

Looking back to a couple of decades ago, my father got a wall clock that plays a song every hour. We know what time it is whenever we hear a specific tune. But now, it's not just by the hours. No music, yes, but a voice that gives the time on how frequent you want to set it. Some have the option by minute, five, 15, 30 minutes or an hour.

It's pretty cool to use it nowadays, be it online or on the phone. My favorite online one is online-stopwatch.com. It has a lot of different clocks, alarms, timers that I can use but my go-to is the talking clock. I can set the frequency and hear the time as I set it.

Then there's the talking clock app on an android phone. I missed this one when had an iPhone but happy to find it when I went back to an android one. This is pretty basic: gives the time as I set it and can also change the voice into male or female. I usually run the app when I'm in the bathroom or when I am heading out somewhere.

Now that I have a bluetooth speaker, which I got for free from a phone center over the change of year, it will be more fab to have it running in the bathroom while I wash and get ready before heading out. It beats the Alexa speaker that my husband got last December. Now, that might be for another post.

For now, I am happy with the existence of talking clocks online when I'm on my laptop or on my phone when I'm out and about.