How To Enable iPhone Speak the Name of Caller and Read Text Message
Posted on August 29th, 2010 by mphonenews.com in Apple iPhone, News
Recently, there are quite a number of interesting app released on Cydia. CallTell is one of them. In brief, CallTell is a hack for jailbroken iPhone that tells who’s calling when you receive a call. The hack simply looks up your contact list on iPhone and speak out the name of caller before your iPhone rings.
What’s more is CallTell also works for text messages. When someone sends a text message, CallTell also enables your iPhone to speak out the name of the sender. You can even instruct CallTell to read out the text message.
How to Install and Use CallTell
CallTell is now available on Cydia for US$1.99. You can just search for “CallTell” in cydia to locate the package. Purchase it and install it by following the on-screen procedures.

Once installed, go to “Settings” -> “CallTell” and enable it. You can also select the appropriate option to enable specific feature such as “Speak SMS Text”. CallTell uses the volume setting of iPod app. So launch the iPod app and turn up the volume.

That’s it. Now, when you get a call, your iPhone will speak out the name of caller before it plays the ringtone.
Do you like CallTell? Feel free to leave us comment and share your thought.
Incoming search terms:
- how to use calltell
- how to use calltell from cydia
- Iphone Name and number read out
- ringtone speak name of caller

Entries (RSS)