Take (Voice) Control of Your iPod

OK, so those that have been a bit jealous of Sync owners can now add their own iPod voice-control capability to their stereo system thanks to DirectVoxx's muso. The deivce -lugs into your iPod's headphone jack and seems to have similar causal speech recognition similar to the Ford Sync system.

"The muso is a pocket-sized accessory for the iPod and iPhone that allows users to access their music with natural voice commands. The Muso synchronizes with the user’s iTunes library directly on first use and requires no training to understand requests such as “Play me some Led Zeppelin”, “How about some Rolling Stones”, “Gimme jazz” or “Go to My Broadway Tunes playlist”. Acting as the user’s personal DJ and creating dynamic playlists, the Muso also allows users to make requests such as “play me something like the last song."

The battery will last about 10 hours on a full charge, and the little guy will take about $159 out of your wallet. The muso is not available yet, but you can pre-order it DirectVoxx's website. As soon as this is available, we'll pick one up and get some hands-on time with it (and possibly give one away?).

Source: DirectVoxx via Red Ferret Journal