Speaking the name of the sender or arbitrary text in Mail rule

Does anyone know of a way to set up a Mail.app rule so that it will speak a phrase when the rule matches. For example, if I get email from Bob, make Mail say "New email from Bob?"
Right now I have to have either an individual Applescript or sound file to accomplish this. I am looking for an iChat/Adium/Skype/Every other app-like mechanism for "Speak the phrase 'new email from @@sender'" or something.

Try this one.
AK
click here to open this script in your editor<pre style="font-family: 'Monaco', 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; overflow:auto; color: #222; background: #DDD; padding: 0.2em; font-size: 10px; width:400px">-- speak the sender of mail passed by rule or selected in the Mail app
-- AK Dec 2007
using terms from application "Mail"
on perform mail action with messages theMsges
tell application "Mail"
repeat with AMessage in theMsges
set WhoSentIt to (extract name from sender of AMessage)
if (count of WhoSentIt) > 0 then say "Mail from " & WhoSentIt
end repeat
end tell
end perform mail action with messages
end using terms from
using terms from application "Mail"
on run
tell application "Mail" to set sel to selection
tell me to perform mail action with messages (sel)
end run
end using terms from
</pre>

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