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