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Powershell/Scripts/speak-english.ps1

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