PowerShell/Docs/speak-epub.md

The speak-epub.ps1 PowerShell Script

This PowerShell script speaks the content of the given Epub file by text-to-speech (TTS).

Parameters

speak-epub.ps1 [[-Filename] <String>] [<CommonParameters>]

-Filename <String>
    Specifies the path to the Epub file
    
    Required?                    false
    Position?                    1
    Default value                
    Accept pipeline input?       false
    Accept wildcard characters?  false

[<CommonParameters>]
    This script supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug, ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, 
    WarningVariable, OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable.

Example

PS> ./speak-epub C:\MyBook.epub

Notes

Author: Markus Fleschutz | License: CC0

Related Links

https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell

Source Code

<# .SYNOPSIS Speaks the content of the given Epub file by text-to-speech (TTS). .DESCRIPTION This PowerShell script speaks the content of the given Epub file by text-to-speech (TTS). .PARAMETER Filename Specifies the path to the Epub file .EXAMPLE PS> ./speak-epub C:\MyBook.epub .LINK https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell .NOTES Author: Markus Fleschutz | License: CC0 #>

param([string]$Filename = "")

function Speak { param([string]$Text) write-output "$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) }

function ReadBook() { param([string]$book, [string]$bookPath, [int]$lineNumber = 0) $data = Get-Content $book for([int]$i=$lineNumber;$i -lt $data.Count;$i++) { Set-Content -Path $bookPath"\progress.txt" -Value ($book+","+$i) $line = $data[$i] if ($line.Contains("