Speech Enters the iPod Realm
Published: Jun 28, 2007
Last month, Air France, Continental, Delta, Emirates, KLM, and United airlines all decided to offer their passengers iPod seat connections which that let them power run and charge their iPods during flight and allow view the video content on their those iPods to be viewed onthrough the their seat back displays. This is just one of the many areas into which Apple Computer is expanding its iPod craze.popular portable media players. It The devices have has even been sited onto Mars and the International Space Station.
It comes as no surprise, therefore, that speech is making inroads into the world of iPods as well. MacSpeech just certified Apple Computer’’s Video iPod, along with three microphone attachments designed for transcribing recorded speech into text. The microphones tested were Belkin’s TuneTalk, Griffin’s iTalk Pro, and Xtreme’s Mac MicroMemo. To dictate and transcribe recordings with the iPod, users must use the MacSpeech TranscriptionPak installed with the iListen application.
