After putting in more than 100 hours researching fire safety, interviewing experts across a variety of fields, and reading well over a hundred pages of smoke alarm data, we recommend the First Alert SM500V Interconnected Battery-Operated Smoke Alarm with Voice Alerts as the primary alarm in a comprehensive whole-home fire-protection system
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Credit: David Wise The First Alert SCO7CN and the Kidde 21026043 KN-COSM-BA also have voice alerts, and the First Alert SCO7CN has the bonus of having a programmable location that it will announce when an alarm is triggered so you know precisely which one went off