Clever Choice Voice+ Talking Glucose Meter

I need to know if this glucose meter has a blank strip toCalibrate it. Or to check accuracy

It was what I order & it works just like the old one. (would be nice to to have the user guide)

This machine is exactly what I needed. Had to reorder because I lost my original meter while in transition to moving. I called and looked on the internet and I finally found it.The meter to me does not have a con. It speaks to you and tells you exactly what your glucose is, the display is very clear so if you have bad eyes you can still see the screen. It is easy to use and you don't have to fondle with the device in order to set your settings. In trying to set your settings it is quite easy as 1-2-3. The only thing that I didn't like is the fact that I had to buy my own lancet device. If this item could come with the lancet device then I would be a very happy camper. Overall I am very satisfied with this item.

Wonderful meter. My wife and use one meter, but she had to go away on business. It was last minute, but we had to get a second meter quickly as we shared the one we have. It came ready to go. I didn't have to do anything. I find that it is very reliable and accurate. I check it against my Doctors tests every two month. The one we already had is about 3 years old and works well also. Seems to be long lasting machine.

It does not work and the testing strip are good for 2018 but it does not work with the machine !I returned the products on line but have not receive my return label!

Low price, it talks to me also easy to read simple to use.Anyone with diabetes that hate sticking their finger should use this

The readings are inaccurate by at least 10-15 units. The price and machine is fine, but not for accurate measuring the type and quantity of food eaten to glucose response.

This is the 8th meter I've owned; the last 3 have been Simple Diagnostics/Clever Check/Clever Choice'/ made by Taidoc (they didn't wear out, I passed them along to people I met, switched to my backup meter and bought another one for backup).I've had T1 for more than 30 years. Until I had to pay out of my own pocket for test strips, never questioned the brand of meter that my endocrinologist gave me, because, well, they worked. I blithely tested away 5x/day and gradually got my A1Cs under 6, and paid a $75 copay for 450 strips each quarter.When I discovered that Lifescan strips were the most expensive on the market - approx $1/test, I was appalled. Insurance-less, I couldn't swing an added $1500/year for strips. After finding that Taidoc was the largest manufacturer of glucose self-test meters in the world, and their strips list price was much lower than that of Lifescan, I decided it was worth a trial.For 30 days I tested in parallel with my remaining Lifescan Ultra strips and the CleverChek Voice meter. The readings were different, but the difference was well within the spread required by the FDA for meter certification. If I had absolute control of my BG with insulin, and depended solely on self-testing, my A1Cs would have been within 0.1 . So I switched.The feature that I missed with the CleverChek meter was being able to record my insulin doses. It is harder to keep a paper log and to transfer those numbers to a PC logbook.Which brings up the second issue - though the softawre was simple to download from Simple Diagnostics site, the PC cable for the CleverChek/CleverChoice meters was not readily available when I got my that meter (it's since improved). After getting one from a mail order company, I found that the Simple Diagnostics software was primitive, and like ALL meter vendors' software, 100% incompatible with all other manufactures software.Fortunately I found SiDiary, which not only works with most of the meters on the market, it has more features and functionality than that of any meter manufacture. With it I was able to simply and consistently manage my BG whenever I had the willingness to do so ( ;-D )Back to the Clever Choice Voice+. The new meter has been made bigger than the previous model, a new eject levers sticks out to one side, the new review buttons are tacked on next to the display, and all control buttons are now molded with raised symbols (not Braille). This might be better for those people patients who actually rely on the voice function, but makes the meter less portable.I prefer its predecessor for the following reasons:1. The strips are more difficult to insert, due to the slot being far down on the side.2. The strips fit sloppily in the slot and don't consistently make contact.3. The strip eject sends the strip flying across the room. It's easier to just pull them out.4. The voice/tone software CAN NOT BE TURNED OFF. With the voice supposedly turned off, the "beep" is always on, and if you accidentally hit the review button on the side of the display (easy to do when the meter is in the provided case),and the meter is shut off, you HEAR "Voice is turned off".That might make some sense when setting up the programming, but not when the meter is shut off. It's as if a mute person SAID "I'm unable to speak" whenever someone bumped him in a crowd. Imagine the reaction.5. The alarm capability is nice but the programming is awkward. There's no simple way to set a one-time alarm; you have to step through all the other meter settings, and the alarms are daily/perpetual, making it necessary to got through the same procedure to disable an alarm. My Casio Telememo digital watch has better functionality than that - 5 alarms, 3 of which can be one-time, DOW, or DOM.(RANT) Why does no meter have the ability to set a "followup test" alarm of our choice - say 2 hours after a meal when we're supposed to have our BG down under 180 mg/dl or whatever our endo says - or 4 hours when we might need a snack if we can't eat a meal, and have it automatically start counting down when we complete a test? (END RANT)Conclusion:If you are sight-impaired or need alarms that sound the same time every day, this may be the meter for you. If aren't, and/or don't, the previous module is has all the same basic functionality, can be operated totally silently and lacks only alarms.Either way, the Clever meters are reliable, as accurate as any other brand, and an economic alternative to the "big" names. With way you save during the first 90 days you use one, you can buy SiDiary software and a data cable, and get a system that can work with your PC, or your Android smartphone, and use it with or without a USB flash drive for portability.BTW, Lifescan has just come out with an "improved" strip design that is no more accurate than the Ultra strip, but costs 25% more - appropriately called the "Gold" strip. Guess who gets the gold?