PowerShell/Scripts/speak-german.ps1

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#!/bin/powershell
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<#
.SYNTAX ./speak-german.ps1 [<text>]
.DESCRIPTION speaks the given text with a German text-to-speech (TTS) voice
.LINK https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell
.NOTES Author: Markus Fleschutz / License: CC0
#>
param($Text = "")
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if ($Text -eq "") {
$Text = read-host "Enter the text to speak"
}
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try {
$Voice = new-object -ComObject SAPI.SPVoice
$Voices = $Voice.GetVoices()
foreach ($OtherVoice in $Voices) {
$Description = $OtherVoice.GetDescription()
if ($Description -like "*- German*") {
write-progress "$Text"
$Voice.Voice = $OtherVoice
[void]$Voice.Speak($Text)
write-progress -complete "$Text"
exit 0
}
}
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write-error "No German text-to-speech (TTS) voice found"
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exit 1
} catch {
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write-error "ERROR: line $($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber): $($Error[0])"
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exit 1
}