ms speech from command line

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

• on Win using PowerShell.exe

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

• on Win using mshta.exe

    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