My skills with Linux are not up to the task. I only know Windows programming at this point but I will start trying to get the basics down. I would guess that somewhere I can find a starting point for a simple smtp client. I would think that there are also existing text to speech engines for Linux.

I will do a little poking around and see what I can come up with. Mostly I wanted to see first if it was in the realm of possibility. From the responses I have read, I would say that it is. (Theoretically at least)