In the previous tip we showed how you can tap into the text to speech converter and speak out text. Here is a way to find out the installed languages on your system:
#requires -Version 2.0 Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech $speak = New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer $speak.GetInstalledVoices() | Select-Object -ExpandProperty VoiceInfo | Select-Object -Property Culture, Name, Gender, Age
The result may look similar to this:
Culture Name Gender Age ------- ---- ------ --- en-US Microsoft Zira Desktop Female Adult en-US Microsoft David Desktop Male Adult de-DE Microsoft Hedda Desktop Female Adult
The default voice used by the synthesizer can be found like this:
$speak.Voice
Provided your system has different voices installed, here is how to select a different voice. Simply submit the name of the voice you want to use. This example uses the German voice engine on German Windows 10 systems:
#requires -Version 2.0 Add-Type -AssemblyName System.speech $speak = New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer $speak.SelectVoice('Microsoft Hedda Desktop') $speak.Speak('Jetzt spreche ich deutsch.')
