[SOLVED] ms speech from command line

ms speech from command line

Is there a way to use the MS Speech utility from command line? I can do it on a mac, but can't find any reference to it on Windows XP.

Solution

My 2 cents on the topic, command line one-liners:

on Win8+ (WinXP) using PowerShell.exe

  PowerShell -Command "Add-Type –AssemblyName System.Speech; (New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer).Speak('hello');"

on Win using mshta.exe (might not be available in corp. env.)

  mshta vbscript:Execute("CreateObject(""SAPI.SpVoice"").Speak(""Hello"")(window.close)")

on OSX using say
```
  say "hello"
```
Ubuntu Desktop (>=2015) using native spd-say
```
  spd-say "hello"
```
on any other Linux
- refer to How to text-to-speech output using command-line?
- commandline function using google TTS (wget to mp3->mplayer)
- command using google with mplayer directly:
  - /usr/bin/mplayer -ao alsa -really-quiet -noconsolecontrols "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts?ie=UTF-8&client=tw-ob&q=Hello%20World&tl=en";
on Raspberry Pi, Win, OSX (or any remote) using Node-Red

npm i node-red-contrib-sysmessage