Make Your Windows 11 PC Speak the Time Every Hour (Male/Female Voice) – Step-by-Step Guide

• PowerShell (built into Windows)
• Task Scheduler (built into Windows)
• Windows Text-to-Speech voice (male or female, depending on what’s installed)

By the end, your PC will speak: “The time is 03 00 PM”…at every hour, as long as the computer is ON.

• Open File Explorer
• Go to C drive
• Create a new folder named: Scripts, as shown below –

1. Open Notepad or create a new text file.
2. Paste the following code in it:

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech
$speaker = New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer
$time = Get-Date -Format "hh mm tt"
$speaker.Speak("The time is $time")

3. In menu of the text file, click File → Save As
4. Save it as: speak_time.ps1
5. Save location i. e. the path to save this file: C:\Scripts\
6. In “Save as type”, choose All Files
7. Encoding can remain UTF-8 as shown in following screenshot.

1. Open Settings
2. Go to: Accessibility → Speech
3. Look for Voices
4. If you see multiple voices, great.
5. If you want more voices, use: Add voices (if available)

• If your PC has multiple voices installed, you can choose which one to use.
• Open C:\Scripts\speak_time.ps1 in Notepad and use this version. If your PC does NOT have multiple voices installed, then there is always a default voice present in it. In that case ignore this step.

Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Speech
$speaker = New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer

# OPTIONAL: choose a specific voice (male/female depends on installed voices)
# To see available voices, run this in PowerShell:
# (New-Object System.Speech.Synthesis.SpeechSynthesizer).GetInstalledVoices() | ForEach-Object { $_.VoiceInfo.Name }

# Example voice selection (replace with your installed voice name)
# $speaker.SelectVoice("Microsoft Zira Desktop")

$time = Get-Date -Format "hh mm tt"
$speaker.Speak("The time is $time")

1. Press Win + R
2. Type: taskschd.msc
3. Press Enter

1. In the right panel, click Create Basic Task…
2. Name it as: Hourly Time Announcer
3. Optionally add description: Speaks the current time every hour while the PC is on.

1. Select Daily
2. Click Next
3. et any start date/time (example: today, 09:00 AM)
4. Click Next
5. On the “Daily” schedule screen:
   • Tick: Repeat task every: 1 hour
   • Duration: Indefinitely

1. Choose: Start a program
2. Program/script: powershell.exe
3. Add arguments (IMPORTANT — adjust path if needed):

-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File "C:\Scripts\speak_time.ps1"

4. Start in: C:\Scripts

• Click Finish.
• Now the task is created — but we’ll do two quick improvements for reliability.

1. In Task Scheduler, click Task Scheduler Library
2. Find Hourly Time Announcer
3. Right-click → Properties

• ✅ Run whether user is logged on or not
• ✅ Run with highest privileges

• If you want it to work on battery too, uncheck:
  • ❌ “Start the task only if the computer is on AC power”

1. Go to Task Scheduler Library
2. Right-click Hourly Time Announcer
3. Click Run