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Add voice to your Powershell script
- ###
- # Description: Add Voice to Powershell
- # Version: 1.1 (11 Nov 2008)
- # Mike Hays / www.mike-hays.net / blog.mike-hays.net
- # Virtualization, Powershell, and more...
- ###
- # This is the actual speaking part. I cheat by adding spaces
- # (This makes the word sound right).
- $spokenText = "Super ca li fragilistic expi alidocious"
- # Create an object that represents the COM SAPI.SpVoice
- $voice = New-Object -com SAPI.SpVoice
- # Get the list of available voices
- $voiceList = $voice.GetVoices()
- # This script prefers using LH Michelle as a stand-in for Mary Poppins,
- # but I can't be sure that she exists on all computers, so I check for that.
- # She comes with some installations of Microsoft Word 2003.
- $voiceDescList = @()
- for ($i=0; $i -lt $voiceList.Count; $i++)
- {
- $voiceDescList += $voiceList.Item($i).GetDescription()
- }
- if ($voiceDescList -contains "LH Michelle")
- {
- $voiceMember = "Name=LH Michelle"
- }
- else
- {
- # This is the default voice if LH Michelle doesn't exist.
- # This will probably be Microsoft Sam
- $voiceMember = "Name=" + $voiceDescList[0]
- }
- $voiceToUse = $voice.GetVoices($voiceMember)
- # This sets the voice property on the COM object
- $voice.Voice = $voiceToUse.Item(0)
- # This actually does the speaking.
- [void] $voice.Speak($spokenText)
- # She's no Julie Andrews, but she'll say what you want.
- # END
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