PowerShell/Docs/speak-english.md

The speak-english.ps1 Script

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

Parameters

speak-english.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-english Hello

Notes

Author: Markus Fleschutz | License: CC0

Related Links

https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell

Source Code

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

param([string]$text = "")

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

	$TTS = New-Object -ComObject SAPI.SPVoice
	foreach ($Voice in $TTS.GetVoices()) {
		if ($Voice.GetDescription() -like "*- English*") {
			$TTS.Voice = $Voice
			[void]$TTS.Speak($text)
			exit 0 # success
		}
	}
	throw "No English voice for text-to-speech (TTS) found - please install one."
} catch {
	"⚠️ Error in line $($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber): $($Error[0])"
	exit 1
}

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