text-to-speech

Why does a downloaded TTS voice work in the ISE but not in PowerShell?

I'm testing text-to-speech with this script: Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech $synth = New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer $synth.SelectVoice("Gabi") $synth.Speak("Text goes here") The downloaded voice named "Gabi" works when I run the script…

Why does a custom TTS voice work in PowerShell ISE but not in the console?

I'm testing text-to-speech voices with this PowerShell script: Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech $synth = New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer $synth.SelectVoice("Gabi") $synth.Speak("Text goes here") The downloaded voice named "Gabi" works from PowerShell ISE,…

Looking for Tools to Convert Book Page Images to Text

I'm visually impaired and accidentally bought an ebook that doesn't have an audiobook version available. I want to make it more accessible for myself, sort of like having…