1. A system for facilitating an improved user texting experience for a user of an in-vehicle telematics unit, the system comprising: a service provider backend system wirelessly linked to the telematics unit; a user input linked to the service provider backend system for receiving from the user one or more texting parameters; a network link from the service provider backend system to a data source containing information for translating a text unit to an audible utterance; a messaging content lookup engine hosted on the telematics unit for translating between text and spoken language; and a telematics voice interface from the telematics unit to the user to receive spoken commands and spoken data from the user, and an audio link from the telematics unit to a vehicle audio system to convey audio information to the user, whereby incoming text messages are parsed and translated into language by the messaging content lookup engine and are conveyed to the user via the audio link, and whereby user utterances are received by the telematics voice interface and translated into outgoing text messages by the messaging content lookup engine.