PowerShell/Scripts/speak-english.ps1
2021-04-21 19:53:52 +02:00

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<#
.SYNTAX speak-english.ps1 [<text>]
.DESCRIPTION speaks the given text with an English text-to-speech (TTS) voice
.LINK https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell
.NOTES Author: Markus Fleschutz / License: CC0
#>
param($Text = "")
if ("$Text" -eq "") { $Text = read-host "Enter the text to speak" }
try {
$Voice = new-object -ComObject SAPI.SPVoice
$Voices = $Voice.GetVoices()
foreach ($OtherVoice in $Voices) {
$Description = $OtherVoice.GetDescription()
if ($Description -notlike "*- English*") { continue }
# write-progress "$Text"
$Voice.Voice = $OtherVoice
[void]$Voice.Speak($Text)
# write-progress -complete "$Text"
exit 0
}
write-error "Sorry, no English text-to-speech (TTS) voice found"
exit 1
} catch {
write-error "ERROR: line $($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber): $($Error[0])"
exit 1
}