Apple Introduces Speech-Enabled ipod Shuffle

Apple yesterday introduced the all-new iPod Shuffle, the world's smallest music player at nearly half of the size of the previous model, and the first music player that talks to you.

The revolutionary new VoiceOver feature enables iPod Shuffle to speak your song titles, artists, and playlist names. The third generation iPod Shuffle holds up to 1,000 songs and is easier to use with all of the controls located on the earphone cord. With the press of a button, you can play, pause, adjust volume, switch playlists, and hear the name of the song and artist.

"Imagine your music player talking to you, telling you your song titles, artists, and playlist names," said Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of iPod and iPhone product marketing. "The amazingly small new iPod Shuffle takes a revolutionary approach to how you listen to your music by talking to you, also making it the first iPod Shuffle with playlists."

iPod Shuffle is based on Apple's incredibly popular shuffle feature, which randomly selects songs from your music library. And now, when you can't remember the name of a song or an artist playing, with the press of a button iPod Shuffle tells you the name of the song and artist.

iPod Shuffle can even tell you status information, such as battery life. With the ability to hold up to 1,000 songs and the VoiceOver feature, you can now easily switch between multiple playlists on your iPod Shuffle. iPod Shuffle can speak 14 languages including English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.