Changing the voice with PYTTSX module in python

Question

When using the Pyttsx module within python, how do you change the voice ID that is used when playing out text?

The documentation provided illustrates how to cycle through all the available voices, but does not make clear how to choose a specific one.

Answer 1

Uh, you should use engine.setProperty('voice', voice_id) (with voice_id being an ID of the voice in your system; you can grab the list of available voices from engine.getProperty('voices')) as proposed in that example:

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

You don't have to cycle, you can set voice id without a for loop.
Just do it like that:

engine = pyttsx.init()
engine.setProperty('voice', voice_id)  # use whatever voice_id you'd like
engine.say('The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.')

Answer 2

import pyttsx

engine = pyttsx.init()
voices = engine.getProperty('voices')

engine.setProperty('voice', voices[0].id) #change index to change voices
engine.say('I\'m a little teapot...')

engine.runAndWait()