Dear Monks

On a Windows machine I need to get all installed voices for TTS in order to pick one and let the machine convert text to speech. I am using the following script, which is fine. I can set the voice I want. What I am failing is to read the available voice. Probably I am committing a very naive error.

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use Win32::OLE;


my $speech = Win32::OLE->new("SAPI.SpVoice") or die ("Error with TTS")
+;

#trying to get installed voices
my $AvailableVoices = $speech->GetVoices();
print Dumper $AvailableVoices;

say ("Hello user."); # I am using the default voice
say ("Hello user.", "Microsoft David Desktop"); # I am setting a diffe
+rent voice which is installed on the machine


sub say {
  my ($text, $voice) = @_;
  $speech->{voice} = $speech->GetVoices("name = $voice")->Item(0) if $
+voice;
  $speech->Speak($text);
}

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This is the output of $AvailableVoices:

$VAR1 = bless( {
                 'Count' => 5
               }, 'Win32::OLE' );

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At least is the count right, I have 5 voices installed. Any suggestions?

In reply to Win32::OLE get list of installed voices by Takamoto

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