Let Automator read your email to you

We like Automator around these parts because it is one of those tools that makes it easy to create something that is useful, or something that appears to be useful but really isn't all that practical. Case in point is Nueens' workflow for taking the email you have received today and creates a textfile with the contents. It doesn't stop there though; it then creates an aiff file of one of the Mac's voices reading that text file. The workflow converts the aiff into an AAC and then loads it into iTunes for your listening pleasure.

The downsides are that it takes over an hour for your Mac to read you 20 emails, and the headers are also included in the text file, so they get read aloud as well.