Text-to-Speech Caller Name Announcement...?

Hi,
Just getting the hang of my new 3GS 32GB and LOVING it...!
One REALLY handy feature on my old Nokia was that it would duck the ringtone, and then say the NAME of the caller (from my contacts) when anybody called.
A GREAT feature - especially when driving.
Does ANYONE know of an app that can do this?
It can't be that hard to implement - Voice Control says the name of the contact when dialing - now it just needs to do that when they call!

Hey, thanks for the plug!
I'm the developer of AutoRingtone, and it's only been out 1 week today and already AutoRingtone PRO is around #43 in Social Networking!
I too switched from a Nokia to the iPhone and that feature was something I always missed. So now, as they say, there's an app for that!
True, you have to type in the name of the contact, but this allows you to customize it more than the Nokia's spoken Caller ID. For example, I use "Your lovely wife, Sandra, is calling". You should see some of the hilarious ringtones our users are creating... many of which I cannot post here!
So, yes, the iPhone must have ringtones installed via iTunes, but we try to make it as easy as possible. And you can choose from 20+ voices in the PRO version. Plus the free update we submitted today will let you create ANY message you want. For example, one user wanted 'Your Mother-in-Law is calling. DO NOT ANSWER!" And ringtones can be used for alarm clock alerts, so you could have "Ian, it's time to take your medicine."
Finally, I'd be happy to give you a promo code, but you would need access to the U.S. store.
If you're just not looking forward to typing the contact names, if you could export them, I could write a script to batch produce your ringtones.

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audio clip here:
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B1g5V_0sdSyzYjgzMjliOWUtZTM4MC00ZDU0LTgyMDUtZTF kYTU4MjgxYzQ0&hl=en_US
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Well, at 50 views and no replies to this ticket, I thought it would be helpful to include a sound clip of the problems...
The first clip you will hear is "it's 10:45" which sounds like Itsu Jyu Ji Yon Jyu G o Fun
I want to change into "now is 10:45" (今は10:45) which should sound like Ima wa Jyu Ji Yon Jyu G o Fun
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I know there must be some way to add an exception the "o'clock" modifier, otherwise the English TTS voices would say something like "it's nine zero zero" I just don't know where to look yet..
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B1g5V_0sdSyzYjgzMjliOWUtZTM4MC00ZDU0LTgyMDUtZTF kYTU4MjgxYzQ0&hl=en_US

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