App that verbally says greeting, mail messages, etc.?

[chrispvoll]

I'm looking for an app (OSX or iOS) that will verbally walk me through things that I check every morning, such as Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, the weather, etc.
I've found the Safari extension Verbal Juicer, but it doesn't really do everything I want it to all that well. I don't need to be actually taken to those webpages, I just want to know how many messages, notifications or mentions I have and what the weather will be like today.

Does anybody know if anything like this exists? Google didn't return much at all, but my searching skills aren't stellar. Thanks.

 

[TreoRenegade]

My searches have also hit a brick wall. However, i did manage to fudge it, a little. I have short mp3's for my Droid X. I noticed that the Prefs screens for some apps allow you to add a custom sound. That sent me checking in other apps, where i found the motherload of customizations -- per app-- within Growl. I grabbed freebie XLD
..... http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/23430/x-lossless-decoder,
which easily converts mp3's to wav.

So, while I still don't get the sort of details you've referenced, at least I do hear "Incoming email", "Google Voice text message arriving", etc, or just music snippets/sounds I truly enjoy hearing. Great, cuz the sound alone is now enough to tell me what's up, so I can continue working without changing my visual focus to actually look at the Growl popup.