Baffled by Text Message Voice

[MogulMongler]

So I was listening to Pandora while walking down the street.

A text message came in, I heard the chime/ring notification.

Then, out of nowhere I hear a robotic voice read the incoming text.

I know I'm quiet the dolt for asking this, but I'm sayin though...what is the deal with this feature ?

I love it, and it makes me chuckle when it reads my friends messages.

Another issue I'm hoping someone could shed some light on :

I listen to Pandora a whole lot, and I recently purchased a pair of overly priced Sony earphones. And I don't know if they earphones suck or if the TP2 has really low volume settings. I like to blast a couple of tunes that drive me mad, but I can't get past a certain volume level on my TP2.

Any1 ?