PowerShell/Scripts/speak-french.ps1
2021-08-29 17:50:03 +02:00

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<#
.SYNOPSIS
speak-french.ps1 [<text>]
.DESCRIPTION
Speaks the given text with a French text-to-speech (TTS) voice.
.EXAMPLE
PS> .\speak-french.ps1 Salut
.NOTES
Author: Markus Fleschutz · License: CC0
.LINK
https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell
#>
param([string]$Text = "")
try {
if ($Text -eq "") { $Text = read-host "Enter the text to speak" }
$Voice = new-object -ComObject SAPI.SPVoice
$Voices = $Voice.GetVoices()
foreach ($OtherVoice in $Voices) {
$Description = $OtherVoice.GetDescription()
if ($Description -notlike "*- French*") { continue }
$Voice.Voice = $OtherVoice
[void]$Voice.Speak($Text)
exit 0
}
write-error "No French text-to-speech voice found - please install one"
exit 1
} catch {
write-error "⚠️ Error in line $($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber): $($Error[0])"
exit 1
}