How to change the voice in pyttsx3?

Question

This code is working but I'm only able to switch between the voices which came preInstalled in Microsoft Windows. These voices are "Microsoft David Mobile" and "Microsoft Zira Mobile".

Later I installed "Microsoft Kalpana Mobile" and set it as the default Windows voice. But still I'm not able to switch to "Microsoft Kalpana Mobile". The code is-

import pyttsx3
engine = pyttsx3.init()
voices = engine.getProperty('voices')
engine.setProperty('voice', voices[0].id) #changing index changes voices but ony 0 and 1 are working here
engine.say('Hello World')
engine.runAndWait()

Only 0 and 1 are working as indices inside voices[].

I want the "Microsoft Kalpana Mobile" to speak. I'm working on this project for past 2 months. If this doesn't work, all my efforts will go in vein. Please Help:(

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can try this code:

import pyttsx3
engine = pyttsx3.init()
voices = engine.getProperty('voices')
for voice in voices:
    print(voice, voice.id)
    engine.setProperty('voice', voice.id)
    engine.say("Hello World!")
    engine.runAndWait()
    engine.stop()

Then instead of the for loop, just pick up your preferred voice.id

Answer 2

I have just noticed. To set the language⇓ This is just my default language setting is 'ja_JP'.

import pyttsx3

engine = pyttsx3.init()
voices = engine.getProperty('voices')
for voice in voices:
    print voice
    if voice.languages[0] == u'en_US':
        engine.setProperty('voice', voice.id)
        break

engine.say('Hello World')
engine.runAndWait()

or

voice.name == 'Alex'