We wanted to create a compact mobile gadget that would allow a mobile user to access and manipulate his SMS messages through his hands-free set when he is driving. Soon it became evident that it could be something useful to handicapped people.

This small gadget can help visually impaired people access their SMS inbox; and deaf people to send SMS-to-Voice messages to fixed line phones.

SMS messaging is universal, instant and cheap; these days it is used in many business activities. SMSVoiceIt is a SIM-Card based SMS vocalization agent, which functions as an appendage to mobile voice-mailer systems. It transforms received SMS messages into voice soundwaves, which can be auditioned and manipulated on demand through the mobile hands-free apparatus. Moreover, it supports broadcast of SMS-to-Voice messages to fixed-line telephones from a mobile set.

The typical usage scenario of this gadget involves reception, auditioning and manipulation of SMS messages through the hands-free set; when the user is busy driving or doing something which cannot be interrupted by picking up the phone and browsing the in-folder.