How to change voices in pyttsx3 modlue of python

Question

I am using the pyttsx3 module for text-to-speech in one of my python projects, but I am not able to choose a male/female option for voices. I read the documentation given on https://pypi.org/project/pyttsx3/ where it says use voices[0].id/voices[1].id for male and female voices respectively. However, that does not seem to work as there is no significant difference between the 2 voices.

My code:

import pyttsx3
engine = pyttsx3.init()

voices = engine.getProperty('voices')
engine.setProperty('voice', voices[0].id)

engine.say("Hello World!")
engine.runAndWait()

Any idea how to change the voice and also is there a way to change the language of text-to-speech...something similar to auto-translate?

score 4 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 24 '21 at 10:20

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voices = engine.getProperty('voices')       #getting details of current voice
#engine.setProperty('voice', voices[0].id)  #changing index, changes voices. o for male
engine.setProperty('voice', voices[1].id)   #changing index, changes voices. 1 for female

this worked for me.

edited Apr 24 '21 at 10:20

David Buck

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answered Apr 24 '21 at 09:50

Sairam Gourishetty

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 15 '20 at 04:56

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To change the voice to either female or male, use

import pyttsx3 as p
engine = p.init()
voice = engine.getProperty('voice')
#for female
engine.setProperty(voice, "!v/f1")
#for male
engine.setProperty(voice, "!v/m1")
engine.runAndWait()

answered Oct 15 '20 at 04:56

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thanks for your suggestion, but it doesn't work. There are no errors shown, but at the same time, there is still no difference between the male and the female voices. – Ameya Uppina Oct 15 '20 at 12:19
It takes from m1 to m5, f1 to f5 – Ekure Edem Oct 15 '20 at 16:05
yeah, I tried that, but as I said earlier, there's no difference. – Ameya Uppina Oct 16 '20 at 06:39
Yes! Thank you! :) – Ameya Uppina Oct 18 '20 at 10:32

How to change voices in pyttsx3 modlue of python

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