Patent ID: 8904308

Claim:
A user-interactive display system for a vehicle, said user-interactive display system comprising: a portable hand-held device capable of being carried into and out of the vehicle; wherein said portable hand-held device is operable to communicate with a vehicle-based receiver; a display device viewable by the driver of the vehicle, wherein said display device is operable to display a listing of choices in response to said communication; wherein said listing of choices displayed by said display device comprises at least one of (a) a listing of messages, (b) a listing of phone numbers, (c) a listing of emails and (d) a listing of titles or tracks; an interior rearview mirror assembly comprising a user input, wherein said user input is actuatable by a user to select an item from said listing of choices displayed by said display device; wherein said user-interactive display system is operable to at least one of (a) display at said display device data associated with the selected item in response to said user-selection of the selected item from said listing of choices and (b) audibly play at an audio device in the vehicle data associated with the selected item in response to said user-selection of the selected item from said listing of choices; and a text to voice converter operable to convert textual data associated with the selected item into a converted voice message.