More Parrot announcements for your viewing pleasure – this time it’s the new Parrot MK6000 Bluetooth Hands-free kit with audio streaming capabilities. This is a professionally installed Bluetooth enabled hands-free kit for your car that allows you to listen to music from your Bluetooth enabled phone or MP3 player over your car’s speakers.

The MK6000 has a built in voice synthesier which can read out names from your phonebook. To call someone, just go to the phonebook, listen to the MK6000 and confirm your choice.

Specs on the MK6000 include:

  • Playback of music files from a Bluetooth stereo A2DP source: mobile phone, MP3 player, and so on “TTS” voice synthesis of the names in the kit’s phonebook
  • New signal processing algorithms with “Parrot Beamforming® ”, noisereduction and echo cancellation
  • Built-in voice recognition software
  • Automatic phonebook synchronization (if TTS)
  • 6-button user interface (including one scroll knob)
  • Multidirectional and positionable twin microphone
  • Pairing: up to five phones
  • Number of contacts:
    - 8 000 max. with TTS
    - 150 per phone paired, without TTS
  • Number of voicetags:
    - 150 max. with TTS
    - 150 per phone paired, without TTS

[Check it out]

 

New Parrot Hands-Free “Music Kit”

with Audio Streaming will be Music to your Ears!

CES-LAS VEGAS (Jan 2007) – For the 50 million owners of MP3 devices who would prefer to listen to their own music in their cars, this news will be music to their ears: Parrot plans to introduce the industry’s first hands-free cell phone car kit with streaming audio capability that will allow them to play their favorite tunes through their car’s stereo. The MK6000 will be available in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2007 and will be priced at $239.99 MSRP.

Now, car – and music – enthusiasts can turn their vehicles into their personal “jukebox on wheels” while at the same time enjoy the convenience of hands-free Bluetooth® cell phone capability.

It’s easy to use, says Parrot. Just start you car, pair your Bluetooth-enabled smart phone or other MP3 device with the MK6000, and enjoy listening to your music library over your car’s stereo system. And because it’s Bluetooth-based streaming, there are no tangled wires or concerns about having the right size jacks or adapters.

“The MK6000 is the second in a new series of advanced Bluetooth products from Parrot that take advantage of today’s fastest growing consumer technologies – audio streaming and Bluetooth,” says Ed Valdez, president and COO of Parrot, Inc.

“Mobile music is no longer a luxury, it is a necessity for millions of people who take their music with them on their smart phone, iPodâ„¢ or other portable music device. This latest innovation allows consumers to enjoy their personal music in their vehicles — without compromising sound quality — with any device that enables Bluetooth A2DP. A few months ago we introduced the Parrot SOUND SYSTEM with audio streaming – our wireless speaker system for home and office use. Now, Parrot is introducing a breakthrough technology for consumers’ vehicles by combining audio streaming with hands-free Bluetooth cell phone capabilities. Audio streaming is poised to be the next “big thing” in mobile electronics.”

In addition to audio streaming, the new MK6000 features two other ground-breaking Parrot innovations for car kits: “beamforming” technology for exceptional voice quality while phoning, and a new text-to-speech synthesizer that will read back the phone book listings.

Beamforming is an advanced signal processing technique that measures and compares the difference in sounds as they are heard by two separate microphones in order to identify and emphasize a primary voice, for instance, while filtering out the secondary sounds. It does this by means of a unique highly directional double microphone that captures the speaker’s voice while canceling extraneous noises such as wind, sirens, road construction and other voices in the car.

 

The text-to-speech synthesizer makes this car kit easy to use and eliminates having to go through complicated sequences with buttons. For example, you can simply select the “Ss” in car kit’s phone book and listen to the names being read one after the other: “Paul Smith…Peter Stone…Paula…”. Then, with a single click you can dial their telephone number without touching your phone.

Its six functions control all the music functions such as play, fast forward, and track selection, as well as phone functions.

Like all of the advanced car kits in the Parrot product line, the MK6000 allows drivers to make calls, take calls and check voicemail without ever having to touch their cell phone while driving thanks to Parrot’s advanced voice recognition technology. And its software can also be updated via the Parrot web site (www.parrot.biz) where new software can be downloaded at anytime.

In addition, the MK6000 automatically mutes the vehicle stereo when a call is being made or received. It also features an expanded phone book capacity – up to 8,000 names – and Parrot’s standard 150 voice tags. Plus it is compatible with many Bluetooth phones on the market.

Technorati Tags: , , ,