Add check-headlines.ps1

Docs/VoiceControl.md

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ More supported voice commands are:
 
 `Computer, check` [name]
 ------------------------
-Lets the computer check something, replace [name] by: `CPU`, `date`, `DNS`, `drives`, `Earth` (fun), `Moon`, `operating system`, `ping`, `Sun`, `swap space`, `time`, `time zone`, `up-time`, `VPN`, or `weather`.
+Lets the computer check something, replace [name] by: `CPU`, `date`, `DNS`, `drives`, `Earth` (fun), `headlines`, `Moon`, `operating system`, `ping`, `Sun`, `swap space`, `time`, `time zone`, `up-time`, `VPN`, or `weather`.
 
 
 `Computer, open` [name] `browser`

Scripts/check-headlines.ps1

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+<#
+.SYNOPSIS
+	Checks the latests headlines
+.DESCRIPTION
+	This script tells the latest headlines by text-to-speech (TTS).
+.PARAMETER RSS_URL
+	Specifies the URL to the RSS feed
+.PARAMETER MaxCount
+	Specifies the number of news to list
+.EXAMPLE
+	PS> ./list-news
+.NOTES
+	Author: Markus Fleschutz · License: CC0
+.LINK
+	https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell
+#>
+
+param([string]$RSS_URL = "https://yahoo.com/news/rss/world", [int]$MaxCount = 8)
+
+try {
+	[xml]$Content = (invoke-webRequest -uri $RSS_URL -useBasicParsing).Content
+	[int]$Count = 0
+	foreach ($item in $Content.rss.channel.item) {
+		"→ $($item.title)"
+		& "$PSScriptRoot/speak-english.ps1" "$($item.title)"
+		$Count++
+		if ($Count -eq $MaxCount) { break }
+	}
+	exit 0 # success
+} catch {
+	"⚠️ Error: $($Error[0]) ($($MyInvocation.MyCommand.Name):$($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber))"
+	exit 1
+}