PowerShell/Docs/speak-italian.md

The speak-italian.ps1 PowerShell Script

This PowerShell script speaks the given text with an Italian text-to-speech (TTS) voice.

Parameters

speak-italian.ps1 [[-text] <String>] [<CommonParameters>]

-text <String>
    Specifies the text to speak
    
    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-italian Ciao

Notes

Author: Markus Fleschutz | License: CC0

Related Links

https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell

Source Code

<# .SYNOPSIS Speaks text in Italian .DESCRIPTION This PowerShell 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 .LINK https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell .NOTES Author: Markus Fleschutz | License: CC0 #>

param([string]$text = "")

try { if ($text -eq "") { $text = read-host "Enter the Italian text to speak" }

$TTS = New-Object -ComObject SAPI.SPVoice
foreach ($Voice in $TTS.GetVoices()) {
	if ($Voice.GetDescription() -like "*- Italian*") {
		$TTS.Voice = $Voice
		[void]$TTS.Speak($text)
		exit 0 # success
	}
}
throw "No Italian voice for text-to-speech (TTS) found - please install one."

} catch { "⚠️ Error in line $($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber): $($Error[0])" exit 1 }

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