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)

• on Raspberry Pi, Win, OSX using Node-Red

  npm i node-red-contrib-sysmessage