19 Apr, 2023
In my last post, Console Speech API and Beeps, I talked about the text to speech .NET assembly and how to get your computer to talk to you. After some searching I remembered I wrote a game in PowerShell similar to my Python based game. This was a simple way to help teach children letters and the keyboard.
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech
$Speech = New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer
$Alphabet = 'ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'.ToCharArray() -as [string[]]
while($true) {
$Letter = $Alphabet[(Get-Random -Minimum 0 -Maximum $Alphabet.Count)]
$Assignment = "Press the letter, $Letter"
$Speech.Speak($Assignment)
$Answer = Read-Host -Prompt $Assignment
if ($Answer.Length -gt 0) {
if ($Letter -eq $Answer) {
$Speech.Speak("Correct! You pressed the letter, $Answer.")
} elseif ($Answer -in $Alphabet) {
$Speech.Speak("Incorrect. You should have pressed, $Letter, but you pressed, $Answer.")
} else {
$Speech.Speak("That was not a letter.")
}
} else {
$Speech.Speak("You did not press anything.")
}
}Check out the source in my PowerShell Snippets.
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