36. The environmental condition detector of claim 35 wherein the at least one sensor comprises at least two different types of sensors from the group including a smoke detector, a heat detector, a carbon monoxide detector, a gas detector, a motion detector, a vibration detector, a light detector, a sound detector, and any multiple combination of these environmental condition detector types.
35. An environmental condition detector receiving audible verbal commands and electronic speech recognition to remotely test the condition of the battery power supply of the detector comprising: a housing; at least one sensor that detects an indoor presence of an environmental condition in the ambient vicinity of the detector; control circuitry that activates an audio output transducer to emit an alarm having an audible tonal pattern for the duration of the detection of said environmental condition; speech recognition circuitry that receives and electronically recognizes said audible verbal commands and thereby initiating at least one diagnostic test to provide a report of the condition of said battery power supply, wherein a first received and recognized verbal command prepares the detector to receive and recognize at least a second verbal command; after reception and recognition of the first verbal command, if a second verbal command is not received and recognized within a preset time interval, the detector re-enters a waiting mode to receive a first verbal command; an electronic memory in which the user records at least one verbal command for user dependent speech recognition; a power source selected from the group including a battery and a non-battery source with a battery back-up; the at least one sensor comprises at least one of a smoke sensor, a fire sensor, a carbon monoxide sensor, a heat sensor, or a motion sensor; the housing contains at least the sensor, the control circuitry, and the audio output transducer; and the detector does not communicate with a centrally monitored system.