I have a computer in my living room to check email and do some lite work sometimes in the evenings. As I cannot see the screen from my old school easy chair, I found myself frequently getting up to check my email when I heard that familiar new mail ding.
I found a post on MacOSXHints.com that worked through several iterations of an Applescript that could speak the sender of new mails. It is a pretty ingenious script app that spawns itself using an on idle construct to ‘listens’ for Mail.app to tell it the header information of any new mails. I cleaned up the script a bit and modified it to also say the subject.
Download: MailAnnounce.app
Instead of being annoyed by every incoming mail, I use a restrictive Mail.app rule to only run this script app on mail from certain address groups such as clients and friends and some limited use email accounts (like incoming Paypal funds 
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