Lewis River (Washington) The Lewis River is a tributary of the Columbia River, about 95 miles (153 km) long, in southwestern Washington in the United States. It drains part of the Cascade Range north of the Columbia River. The drainage basin of the Lewis River covers about 1,046 square miles (2,709 km2).
Cortana does read your text that's why there are links under days or times you type. But think the guy is asking about cortana being able to read his messages out loud. And i think you need a Bluetooth headset...could be wrong just regurgitating what little I've read about it in the forums.
To get into the meat of the voice testing, I spoke the same commands to the most up-to-date versions of Cortana (on the Icon running Windows Phone 8.1), Siri (on an running iOS 7.1), and Google Now (on the Samsung Galaxy S5 running Android 4.4.2), often with more than one syntax to see if phrasing makes a difference in the result.