Added speak-joke.ps1

Scripts/speak-joke.ps1

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+#!/snap/bin/powershell
+<#
+.SYNTAX         ./speak-joke.ps1
+.DESCRIPTION	speaks the next joke by text-to-speech (TTS)
+.LINK		https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell
+.NOTES		Author:	Markus Fleschutz / License: CC0
+#>
+
+function Speak { param([string]$Text)
+	write-progress "$Text"
+	$Voice = new-object -ComObject SAPI.SPVoice
+	$Voices = $Voice.GetVoices()
+	foreach ($OtherVoice in $Voices) {
+		$Description = $OtherVoice.GetDescription()
+		if ($Description -like "*- English (United States)") {
+			$Voice.Voice = $OtherVoice
+			break
+		}
+	}
+	[void]$Voice.Speak($Text)
+	write-progress -complete "$Text"
+}
+
+try {
+	$PathToRepo = "$PSScriptRoot/.."
+
+	$Table = import-csv "$PathToRepo/Data/jokes.csv"
+
+	$Generator = New-Object System.Random
+	$Index = [int]$Generator.next(0,66)
+
+	$Joke = $Table[$Index].Joke
+
+	[system.threading.thread]::currentthread.currentculture=[system.globalization.cultureinfo]"en-US"
+	Speak $Joke
+	exit 0
+} catch {
+	write-error "ERROR in line $($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber): $($Error[0])"
+	exit 1
+}