Added speak-english.ps1

Scripts/speak-english.ps1

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+#!/snap/bin/powershell
+<#
+.SYNTAX         ./speak-english.ps1 [<text>]
+.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
+#>
+
+param($Text = "")
+
+try {
+	$Voice = new-object -ComObject SAPI.SPVoice
+	$Voices = $Voice.GetVoices()
+	foreach ($OtherVoice in $Voices) {
+		$Description = $OtherVoice.GetDescription()
+		if ($Description -like "*- English*") {
+			write-progress "$Text"
+			$Voice.Voice = $OtherVoice
+			[void]$Voice.Speak($Text)
+			write-progress -complete ""
+			exit 0
+		}
+	}
+	write-error "Sorry, no English text-to-speech (TTS) voice found"
+	exit 1
+} catch {
+	write-error "ERROR in line $($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber): $($Error[0])"
+	exit 1
+}