PowerShell/Scripts/speak-english.ps1

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<#
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.SYNTAX speak-english.ps1 [<text>]
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.DESCRIPTION speaks the given text with an English text-to-speech (TTS) voice
.LINK https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell
.NOTES Author: Markus Fleschutz / License: CC0
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#>
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 = $OtherVoice.GetDescription()
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if ($Description -notlike "*- English*") { continue }
# write-progress "$Text"
$Voice.Voice = $OtherVoice
[void]$Voice.Speak($Text)
# write-progress -complete "$Text"
exit 0
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}
write-error "Sorry, no English text-to-speech (TTS) voice found"
exit 1
} catch {
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write-error "⚠️ Error in line $($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber): $($Error[0])"
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exit 1
}