There are many ways to make the phone read text, but I'm not sure I understand what you mean:
1) x=raw_input() will store the text in the variable x
2) x=appuifw.query(u"Type a text", "text") will give a popup asking you to input text, which will then be stored in the variable x
3) If you want to read text from a file, see this article: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.ph...ings_to_a_file