Specifically for pVoice I created Win32::MSAgent. It uses the Microsoft Agent for speech synthesis (and under the hood that uses the MS Speech API 4.0a).

With this module you can select voices and languages. See the included documentation for it.

Jouke Visser, Perl 'Adept'
Using Perl to help the disabled: pVoice, pType and pStory

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