[gui-talk] (fwd) [Mystic Place Blog and Podcast] BlueAnt Voice Controled Bluetooth Headset

[Chris G]

Here's an article I just posted to my blog about a headset I
discovered.

Chris
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:39:52 -0500, Chris <chris at mysticplace.org>
wrote:

>Mystic Place Blog and Podcast has posted a new item, 'BlueAnt Voice Controled
>Bluetooth Headset'
>
>The BlueAnt  V1 is a Bluetooth headset that you would use with your mobile
>phone.  The unique thing about the BlueAnt is the ability to talk to you and for
>you to talk to it.
>First you turn on the headset and then it searches for a paired device.  It
>will then speak "phone connected" if it connects to your phone.
>
>You can say "what can I say?" and the headset responds with things that you can
>say such as Check battery, this will give you the battery status of the headset,
>not your phone.
>When you say "pare me" the headset walks you through how to pare it with a
>bluetooth device.  It will even give you the pairing code of 0000 and tell you
>to type it into your phone.  Another neat feature of the headset is caller id. 
>On some phones the number is announced through the headset even if you do not
>have Talks or Mobile Speak.  The headset does the talking.
>I bought mine from amazon.com for around $80 at the time of this post.  The
>headset also had good reviews from sighted people.  This
>is who the headset was
>designed for, someone in a car.  It's great that the headset is fully accessible
>to us.
>The headset does not listen for commands unless you press the button.
>
>You may view the latest post at
>http://www.mysticplace.info/index.php/2009/01/23/blueant-voice-controled-bluetooth-headset/
>
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>Chris
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