This PowerShell script speaks the given text by the default text-to-speech (TTS) voice.
/home/markus/Repos/PowerShell/scripts/speak-text.ps1 [[-text] <String>] [<CommonParameters>]
-text <String>
Specifies the text to read
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.
PS> ./speak-text.ps1 Hi
Author: Markus Fleschutz | License: CC0
https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell
<#
.SYNOPSIS
Speaks text by the default text-to-speech voice
.DESCRIPTION
This PowerShell script speaks the given text by the default text-to-speech (TTS) voice.
.PARAMETER text
Specifies the text to read
.EXAMPLE
PS> ./speak-text.ps1 Hi
.LINK
https://github.com/fleschutz/PowerShell
.NOTES
Author: Markus Fleschutz | License: CC0
#>
param([string]$text = "")
try {
if ($text -eq "") { $text = Read-Host "Enter the text to speak" }
$Voice = new-object -ComObject SAPI.SPVoice
[void]$Voice.Speak($text)
exit 0 # success
} catch {
"⚠️ Error in line $($_.InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber): $($Error[0])"
exit 1
}
(generated by convert-ps2md.ps1 as of 11/20/2024 11:52:01)