My uses for Powershell have always been very utilitarian. However, recently I became aware that you can actually do text-to-speech, so I thought I’d play around with it a bit.
This is about the simplest example:
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.speech $speak = New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer $speak.Speak('Hello, Is it me you're looking for?')
There are some additional options I came across here.
As you heard, the default voice isn’t that great compared to Alexa, etc. Checking out what other voices I have on my system…
$speak.GetInstalledVoices().VoiceInfo
Ok, so it seems I also have Zira, the female voice.
$speak.SelectVoice('Microsoft Zira Desktop')
$speak.Speak('This voice sounds a bit better than David Desktop')
