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Is it possible to have voice tags for contacts?
like when some one calls you ,n900 just calls out the name of the contact

No. i've been southampton but i've never been to scumthorpe

just something else this amazing new device cant do! Loved that feature in the good old days......

Can we expect this feature to be added in the future updates? i comes handy when u r driving with ur n900 connected to the bluetooth car kit and u can knw who is calling u without looking into the phones screen

Well, unless cashclientel elaborates, or cites something, I don't put much stock in it being impossible. However, no, it's not a currently available feature. I poked around a bit in the telephony subsystem (DBus) when I was working on my bluetooth bracelet alerts (another thread - search if you're curious), but I can't remember if it broadcasts DBus signals on incoming calls or not. If it does, and includes identifiable caller info, then one could write a little daemon to do that, I would think.

Update: com.nokia.csd.call looks like it might be of some use. If anyone feels like poking at DBus, please do - I probably won't have time.

miss this feature loads myself!!!

Okay, I did a bit of digging, and I think this should be quite doable. I have a lot on my plate, though, so while I'll try to keep tabs on this, don't count on me actually implementing it.
Here's how we could do it:
- Use the dbus-scripts package (currently in -devel; standard caveats apply)
- Listen on the "Coming" signal, as per the wiki page.
- That will give us the caller number. From there, we need to cross reference it with the address book, which should be doable as well, I would think. How one would do that, I don't know off the top of my head.
- Use espeak/flite/festival/etc to speak the caller name as listed by the address book

That should work, and it shouldn't be too tricky, I think. To the OP, and others, though, keep in mind that dbus-scripts isn't stable yet, so even if someone scripts this up tomorrow, I can't advise using it yet.

I hope this helps

Thanks to Matan, in this post, for pointing me in the right direction.

It actually looks easier than I thought. The one catch is that I don't have a SIM card for my phone, so I'll have to borrow one. Once I can do so, for testing, I think I can whip up a script or two that will speak the phone number fairly easily. Would this be useful to people?

See also this thread if you wish to make sounds while a call is incoming:

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=45723