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We keep talking about ditching your iPod for a music enabled cellphone, right? Now what do you do when you want to cruse to your tunes in the car? Parrot plans to introduce the first hands-free Bluetooth cellphone kit with streaming audio capability.

It’s easy to use. Just start you car, pair your smart phone or other MP3 device (that has Bluetooth A2DP) with the MK6000, and enjoy listening to your music library over your car’s stereo system.

In addition to audio streaming, the new MK6000 features two other innovations: “beamforming” and a new text-to-speech synthesizer function.

Beamforming is an 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 the 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 the telephone number without touching your phone.

The MK6000 has a simple one-button user interface or control unit that mounts on your dashboard. Its six functions control all the music functions such as play, fast forward, and track selection, as well as phone functions. The MK6000 will be available in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2007 and will be priced at $239.99.

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