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win_say - Text to speech module for Windows to speak messages and optionally play sounds

New in version 2.3.

Synopsis

  • Uses .NET libraries to convert text to speech and optionally play .wav sounds. Audio Service needs to be running and some kind of speakers or headphones need to be attached to the windows target(s) for the speech to be audible.

Options

parameter required default choices comments
end_sound_path
 no
Full path to a .wav file containing a sound to play after the text has been spoken.
Useful on conference calls to alert other speakers that ansible has finished speaking.
msg
 no
The text to be spoken.
Use either msg or msg_file.
Optional so that you can use this module just to play sounds.
msg_file
 no
Full path to a windows format text file containing the text to be spokend.
Use either msg or msg_file.
Optional so that you can use this module just to play sounds.
speech_speed
 no
How fast or slow to speak the text.
Must be an integer value in the range -10 to 10.
-10 is slowest, 10 is fastest.
start_sound_path
 no
Full path to a .wav file containing a sound to play before the text is spoken.
Useful on conference calls to alert other speakers that ansible has something to say.
voice
 no system default voice
Which voice to use. See notes for how to discover installed voices.
If the requested voice is not available the default voice will be used. Example voice names from Windows 10 are Microsoft Zira Desktop and Microsoft Hazel Desktop.

Examples

- name: Warn of impending deployment
  win_say:
    msg: Warning, deployment commencing in 5 minutes, please log out.

- name: Using a different voice and a start sound
  win_say:
    start_sound_path: C:\Windows\Media\ding.wav
    msg: Warning, deployment commencing in 5 minutes, please log out.
    voice: Microsoft Hazel Desktop

- name: With start and end sound
  win_say:
    start_sound_path: C:\Windows\Media\Windows Balloon.wav
    msg: New software installed
    end_sound_path: C:\Windows\Media\chimes.wav

- name: Text from file example
  win_say:
    start_sound_path: C:\Windows\Media\Windows Balloon.wav
    msg_file: AppData\Local\Temp\morning_report.txt
    end_sound_path: C:\Windows\Media\chimes.wav

Return Values

Common return values are documented here Return Values, the following are the fields unique to this module:

name description returned type sample
message_text
the text that the module attempted to speak
 success string Warning, deployment commencing in 5 minutes.
voice
the voice used to speak the text.
 success string Microsoft Hazel Desktop
voice_info
the voice used to speak the text.
 when requested voice could not be loaded string Could not load voice TestVoice, using system default voice

Notes

Note

  • Needs speakers or headphones to do anything useful.

  • To find which voices are installed, run the following Powershell commands.

    Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech $speech = New-Object -TypeName System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer $speech.GetInstalledVoices() | ForEach-Object { $_.VoiceInfo } $speech.Dispose()

  • Speech can be surprisingly slow, so it’s best to keep message text short.

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

For help in developing on modules, should you be so inclined, please read Community Information & Contributing, Testing Ansible and Developing Modules.

© 2012–2017 Michael DeHaan
© 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/win_say_module.html