pyttsx3 is not changing the voice?What to do now?

[Sam-Varghese]

Hi sir ,i am also facing the same problem , here is the code that I ran in vscode

# This file contains program for speaking

import win32api
import pyttsx3

def speaking(text):

    engine=pyttsx3.init()
    engine.say(text)
    engine.setProperty('rate',125)
    voices = engine.getProperty('voices')
    engine.setProperty('voice', voices[1].id)
    engine.setProperty('volume',1)
    engine.runAndWait()

speaking('Hi sir , this code is not working')

And here is the error that I got

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

C:\Users\hp\Documents\GitHub\Tuition-Management-Software>"C:/Python 3.8 Files/py
thon.exe" c:/Users/hp/Documents/GitHub/Tuition-Management-Software/Tuition_Management_Software/Speaker.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:/Users/hp/Documents/GitHub/Tuition-Management-Software/Tuition_Management_Software/Speaker.py", line 16, in <module>
    speaking('Hi sir , this code is not working')
  File "c:/Users/hp/Documents/GitHub/Tuition-Management-Software/Tuition_Management_Software/Speaker.py", line 12, in speaking
    engine.setProperty('voice', voices[1].id)
IndexError: list index out of range

C:\Users\hp\Documents\GitHub\Tuition-Management-Software>

I am using windows 7 version and programming in vscode Here is the screen shot also

And voices[0] which is to change voice to that of a male , is in return returning a female voice.

[tp1415926535]

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to deal with it. First, I get code here to know what voices it has recognized, and compare it to the voice list in Windows Settings > Time & Language > Speech.

I notice that some voice I need is in path 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech_OneCore\Voices\Tokens\' while the pyttsx3 read path is 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens\‘ in regedit , and then I try to specify the path directly to Speech_OneCore in voice property, but it's doesn't work.

So finally, I found a solution here, he's method is copy the registry entries which needed in to two other path.(‘HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Speech\Voices\Tokens\’ and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\SPEECH\Voices\Tokens\'').

An additional point to note is that some sounds use other files for their VoicePath, you may open 'C:\Windows\Speech_OneCore\Engines\TTS' to see the corresponding name, and edit VoicePath in regedit path where added.

[ZeeshanK07]

eng = pyttsx3.init("sapi5") voices = eng.getProperty('voices') bot.setProperty('voices', voices[1].id) // used bot.setProperty('voices', voices[0].id) used this but voice keeps on male only not able to switch voice as per requirement

[willwade]

Pretty sure this is fixed. Anyone reopen if you see this again. Thanks all