Wheadon's Words; Mark's Mutterings » talk http://www.markwheadon.com/blog Welcome to Mark Wheadon's blog; I hope you find it useful. Feel free to comment on anything you read here. Sun, 02 May 2010 14:14:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Apple announces talkative iPod Shuffle http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/03/apple-announe-talkative-ipod-shuffle/ http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/2009/03/apple-announe-talkative-ipod-shuffle/#comments Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:11:02 +0000 Mark Wheadon http://www.markwheadon.com/blog/?p=637 The new iPod shuffle makes the old one look bulky (which is an achievement :-) ), and this one talks to you. Cute.

Here’s an introductory tour of the new mini-beast. A couple of interesting facts that emerge from the video: the speech is different depending on whether you synchronize using iTunes under Mac OS X or Windows, so speech must be synthesized on the host computer not the iPod, and one gotcha: you can’t use anything other than the supplied headphones without an extra dongle.

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