In the latest version of pVoice, which you can download at http://opensource.pvoice.org these days, I'm using something like this to select the speechengine:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Win32::SAPI4;
use Win32::Locale;
use Locale::Country;
use Locale::Language;

# This hashref represents some of the possible LanguageIDs that MS use
+s
my  $Languages = {'Arabic'                => 0x0401,
                'Basque'                  => 0x042D,
                'Chinese (Simplified)'    => 0x0804,
                'Chinese (Traditional)'   => 0x0404,
                'Croatian'                => 0x041A,
                'Czech'                   => 0x0405,
                'Danish'                  => 0x0406,
                'Dutch'                   => 0x0413,
                'English (British)'       => 0x0809,
                'English (US)'            => 0x0409,
                'Finnish'                 => 0x040B,
                'French'                  => 0x040C,
                'German'                  => 0x0407,
                'Greek'                   => 0x0408,
                'Hebrew'                  => 0x040D,
                'Hungarian'               => 0x040E,
                'Italian'                 => 0x0410,
                'Japanese'                => 0x0411,
                'Korean'                  => 0x0412,
                'Norwegian'               => 0x0414,
                'Polish'                  => 0x0415,
                'Portuguese (Portugal)'   => 0x0816,
                'Portuguese (Brazil)'     => 0x0416,
                'Romanian'                => 0x0418,
                'Russian'                 => 0x0419,
                'Slovakian'               => 0x041B,
                'Slovenian'               => 0x0424,
                'Spanish'                 => 0x0C0A,
                'Swedish'                 => 0x041D,
                'Thai'                    => 0x041E,
                'Turkish'                 => 0x041F};

# I'm using my SAPI4 module here, you could also create the 
# voicetext object yourself.
my $vt = Win32::SAPI4::VoiceText->new() || die "Can't start VoiceText"
+;

# Get All available languages from installed speechengines
my @alllangs = getlanguages($vt);
print join("\n", @alllangs);

# Get all available voices from a specific language, replace
# 'Dutch' with the hashkey of your choice (see the $Languages
# hashref above)
my $language = languageid2language($Languages->{'Dutch'});
my @allvoices =getvoices($language, $vt);
print "\n\n", join ("\n", @allvoices);

# Say that one of the voices is named 'Adult Female #1 Dutch (L&H)'
# which is one of the dutch voices I have installed
for (my $i=1; $i <= $vt->CountEngines; $i++)
{
    select($i) if $vt->ModeName($i) eq 'Adult Female #1 Dutch (L&H)';
}


#---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-
# This sub returns the names of the installed voices
sub getvoices
{
    my $language = shift;
    my $v = shift;
    my @r;
    # We wander through the number of installed engines
    for (my $i=1; $i <= $v->CountEngines; $i++)
    {
        my ($t1, $t2) = split(/-/,Win32::Locale::get_language($v->Lang
+uageID($i)));
        push @r, $v->ModeName($i) if $language eq code2language($t1)."
+ (".code2country($t2).")";
    }
    return @r;
}

#---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-
# This sub returns the names of the installed languages
sub getlanguages
{
    my $v = shift;
    my %r;
    # Also here we browse through the installed engines
    for (my $i=1; $i <= $v->CountEngines; $i++)
    {
        my ($t1, $t2) = split(/-/,Win32::Locale::get_language($v->Lang
+uageID($i)));
        $r{code2language($t1)." (".code2country($t2).")"}++;
    }
    return keys %r;
}

#---------------------------------------------------------------------
+-
# This sub returns a readable language for the given $languageid
sub languageid2language
{
    my $languageid = shift;
    my ($t1, $t2) = split(/-/,Win32::Locale::get_language($languageid)
+);
    return code2language($t1)." (".code2country($t2).")";

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

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In reply to Re: Changing the voice in MS Text to speech? by Jouke
in thread Changing the voice in MS Text to speech? by Massyn

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