The British branch of the Warner Music label, in partnership with Apple Music and the company Rothco, has just unveiled new selections of titles calledsaylists. The word is taken from playlist, which everyone knows, and fromsay, “dire" in English. The idea is to offer tracks based around certain particular consonants, which are not always easy to pronounce in cases of language disorders.
As an example, for the sound “R…“, users will then discoverRight Here, Right Nowby Brighton DJ Fatboy Slim orHarder Better Faster Strongerby Daft Punk. You understand the principle: it involves repeating over and over againdifficult words for patients, all in music. An ideal complement to traditional sessions with the speech therapist, a professional in the subject.
In English only
For the moment, there are no saylists in the language of Molière. Apple has not specified whether this content, designed in partnership with specialist Anna Biavati-Smith based in Edinburgh, would be available for other countries. 173 songs are part of the program at the moment. Their choice was also made possible by aalgorithmowner having scanned the seventy million works in the Music streaming catalog.
Although it is possible to consult the playlists in question, you must however be subscribed to the service to listen to them. It costs9,99 eurosper month for a package dedicated to one person. But for 19.95, the whole family will be entitled to it with the added bonus of iCloud, Apple Arcade and Apple TV+: it's the Apple One bundle,which is starting to convince some of the apple brand's customers.
Liens
To find all the saylists, and perhaps additional editions afterwards,just go herefrom an iPhone, Safari on Mac or your iPad. Here are the ten sounds that are currently available:
- Z
- T
- S
- R
- L
- K
- G
- F
- D
- CH
Once again, this initiative demonstrates the efforts made by Apple to appeal to the youngest audience. Recently, Tim Cook's company put onlinea page dedicated to children and their parentson its website.
