I made a simple little program for the empeg that I call "TTS Clock r1" It is available at http://www.zabaware.com/empeg/ Basically, when installed, your empeg will greet you, say the date, and say the time a few seconds after ignition before the player app starts.

I also started a discussion on the programming forum at http://empeg.comms.net/php/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=hackers_prog&Number=125368 on creating a prerecorded TTS app that will announce the title of a song before it starts playing.