Dear monks

I use SAPI.SpVoice through Win32::OLE to read aloud string of texts. This works fine with most languages, but I fail with Japanese. Probably there must be something with an encoding option in Win:32::OLE I am missing. On my Windows 10 PC the Japanese voice (Microsoft Haruka Desktop) is installed and the voice pronouces well if I use it with other applications. Not with my script (no Idea what it is pronouncing). Note that in the example I put "Hello" (こんにちは; Kon'nichiwa; I am not able to put the Japanese word in the code below, sorry) in Japanese for easy replication. Any idea?

use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::OLE;
use utf8;

my $tts = Win32::OLE->new("SAPI.SpVoice");
$tts->{voice} = $tts->GetVoices()->Item(3);
$tts->Speak("こんにちは");

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In reply to Win32::OLE SAPI.SpVoice Japanese by Takamoto

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