Not sure how you get a list of voices programmatically but here is an old script I dug up. 
#/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use Win32::OLE;
my ($voice);

&Init_Voice();

&Talk("STARTING");

print "\nType something!\n";
while (my $aa = <STDIN>){
    print "\nType something!\n";
    chomp $aa;
    &Talk($aa);

}




sub Init_Voice{
    $voice = Win32::OLE->new("Speech.VoiceText") or die("TTS failed");
    $voice->Register("", "$0"); 
    $voice->{Enabled} = 1; # optional
    $voice->{Speed}=150;
    return $voice;
}

sub Talk{
    my $info = shift;
    return unless $info;
    $voice->Speak($info,  1);
    while ($voice->IsSpeaking()) {
      sleep 1;
    }
    return;
}


END{
sleep(3);
}

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Update
You might want to check out Talking Winamp RF remote control, or Voice_Text.pm that comes with Mister House and the documentation for the newest version of MS TTS. which can be obtained here

-Lee

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In reply to Re: Text-to-speech in Perl by shotgunefx
in thread Text-to-speech in Perl by Massyn

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