<# .SYNOPSIS Speaks text with an Italian text-to-speech voice .DESCRIPTION This script speaks the given text with an Italian text-to-speech (TTS) voice. .PARAMETER text Specifies the text to speak .EXAMPLE PS> ./speak-italian Ciao .NOTES Author: Markus Fleschutz · License: CC0 .LINK https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell #> param([string]$text = "") try { if ($text -eq "") { $text = read-host "Enter the Italian text to speak" } $TTSVoice = New-Object -ComObject SAPI.SPVoice foreach ($Voice in $TTSVoice.GetVoices()) { if ($Voice.GetDescription() -like "*- Italian*") { $TTSVoice.Voice = $Voice [void]$TTSVoice.Speak($text) exit 0 # success } } throw "No Italian text-to-speech voice found - please install one." } catch { "⚠️ Error: $($Error[0]) ($($MyInvocation.MyCommand.Name):$($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber))" exit 1 }