Pyttsx Voice Gender

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Good afternoon, I'm learning and using pyttsx for speech, the thing is that I want to use it as a "female" voice but I can not do it using this code:

import pyttsx as pt
from pyttsx import voice
engine = pt.init()
voices = engine.getProperty('voices')
#engine.setProperty('gender', 'female') # also does not work
engine.setProperty('female', voice.Voice.gender) #not even
engine.setProperty('female', voice.gender) #does not work
engine.setProperty('voice', voices[4].id)
engine.say("Hello World")
engine.runAndWait()


class Voice(object):
    def __init__(self, id, name=None, languages=[], gender=None, age=None):
        self.id = id
        self.name = name
        self.languages = languages
        self.gender = gender
        self.age = age

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 18 '17 at 18:42

I used the following code to iterate through the voices to find the female voice

import pyttsx
engine = pyttsx.init()
voices = engine.getProperty('voices')
for voice in voices:
   engine.setProperty('voice', voice.id)
   print voice.id
   engine.say('The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.')
engine.runAndWait()

On my Windows 10 machine the female voice was HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens\TTS_MS_EN-US_ZIRA_11.0

So I changed my code to look like this

import pyttsx
engine = pyttsx.init()
engine.setProperty('voice', 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens\TTS_MS_EN-US_ZIRA_11.0')
engine.say('The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.')
engine.runAndWait()

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered May 12 '17 at 07:43

5

if you use linux/espeak...

change the code here engine.setProperty('voice', 'english+f1')

you can change the voice by adding f1 until f4

answered May 12 '17 at 07:43

user3041896

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 14 '17 at 04:02

3

This is a simpler solution:

engine = pyttsx.init()
voices = engine.getProperty('voices')
engine.setProperty('voice', voices[1].id)

answered May 14 '17 at 04:02

Huzefa Mandviwala

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Chaitanya Lakhchaura · Answer 4 · 2019-04-19T19:03:24.433

1

Use sound=getProperty ('voices'); engine.setProperty('voice','sound [1].id') This will definitely work. 0 for male and 1 for female.

edited Apr 19 '19 at 19:03

answered Apr 19 '19 at 18:54

Chaitanya Lakhchaura

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 04 '20 at 11:59

You have to check whether your computer has other narrator options or not for that go to control panel -> Ease of Access center -> Narrator options there will be option how many narrators you have. other option go to windows search for narrator. if you don't have other narrator that you have written in code, default narrator will work only.

score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Feb 21 '21 at 20:14

I use this helper function, that iterates over the voices. If a voice for a specific language and gender exists, it will change to this voice otherwise an exception will be raised.

# language  : en_US, de_DE, ...
# gender    : VoiceGenderFemale, VoiceGenderMale
def change_voice(engine, language, gender='VoiceGenderFemale'):
    for voice in engine.getProperty('voices'):
        if language in voice.languages and gender == voice.gender:
            engine.setProperty('voice', voice.id)
            return True

    raise RuntimeError("Language '{}' for gender '{}' not found".format(language, gender))

And finally it will be used like this:

engine = pt.init()
change_voice(engine, "en_US", "VoiceGenderFemale")
engine.say("Hello World")
engine.runAndWait()

score -1 · Answer 7 · answered Apr 15 '19 at 12:49

-1

import pyttsx as pt
from pyttsx import voice
engine = pt.init()
voices = engine.getProperty('voices')
#engine.setProperty('gender', 'female') # also does not work
#engine.setProperty('female', voice.Voice.gender) #not even
#engine.setProperty('female', voice.gender) #does not work
engine.setProperty('voice', voices[1].id)
engine.say("Hello World")
engine.runAndWait

answered Apr 15 '19 at 12:49

ABHAY

1

Explain it please! – Szabolcs Páll Apr 15 '19 at 13:07

Pyttsx Voice Gender

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