Hands-free devices may save you from a ticket by allowing you to pick up the phone on the road, but without caller ID to let you screen your calls, you may end talking to your boss for an hour on your way home from work, or awkwardly fielding drunk dials as you bring Grandma to the airport. BlueAnt phases out this problem with the next generation of its Supertooth in-car speakerphone, which reads caller ID information out loud and allows you to accept or reject calls vocally.
The Supertooth 3 uses text-to-speech technology to translate incoming call data to voice alerts, and includes support for American English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and British English. It will also read other information, like which device it’s paired to, and call status. Like most other Bluetooth speakerphones, it accepts spoken commands to dial out or reject calls.
All the same noise cancellation technology from the previous generation Supertooth models also migrates over to the Supertooth 3, such as Clear Voice Capture, which digitally strips out background noise and applies echo cancellation algorithms to improve voice quality. BlueAnt claims the device should be good for about 15 hours of talk time or 800 hours of standby, and can pair with up to eight different devices. It mounts to a sun visor with a magnetic clip.
The Supertooth 3 is available immediately for $129.95.
