Working for Avanade means that you will be on the road quite a lot. And as trafficjams are a fact of live I try to get us much done while standing still. I phone a lot of people and have meetings that way. And Audible player can read books to me for which I can't find the time in the evening.
But reading my emails or even an sms can be dangerous. I was reading one mail last week and only because the people at Renault put such great brakes in to my Megane I didn't total it and myself. So that taught me a lesson.
Don't read and drive.
But I still would like to be able to read mails. While I was surfing a bit on the internet I found a number of text to speech applications for my windows mobile. None really had the user interface I wanted. So I contacted www.sayvoice.com and asked if they wanted to hear some of my ideas.
To cut a long story short Richky Hsu one of their developers contacted me and said they were very interested. So now I am co-developing the product. Mainly because I needed a serieus hobby project. And speech technology and mobiles have always interested me.
If you are interested in field testing the prototypes than drop me a line.