S60 Open to new features

A couple of things came to my mind when exploring the voice commands in my new phone. It is relatively easy for a user to call someone by saying the person's name, or to open an application using the voice commands. Unfortunately, voice commands cannot be used for opening any application or view - even though there are quite many alternatives available. Also, after a promising start, having opened an application using a voice command, a user cannot proceed much further using only voice. It would be handy, for example, to start the text message reader using voice command--but this may not be possible (I could not find a way, at least). And it would also be nice if the user could select a speech synthesizer speaking one's mother tongue - at least Finnish messages sound quite funny with the English-speaking synthesizer. :-)

So, while there are interesting voice-related features, they are not used to the extent they could be. Could the user, for example, activate a kind of “voice command profile” in which messages and other texts could be heard? To make it more fun for the user, different kinds of speech synthesizer voices could be offered for listening - maybe even with varying emotional tones. As for emotional expression via mobile, the nature of potential solutions is limited by just one's imagination - as is illustrated by a monkey* developed at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory.

* The page works with Microsoft Internet Explorer.