The voice to use is specified with:
<VOICE=voice_name>
where voice_name is a mask corresponding to one of the installed Microsoft voices:
•<VOICE=Stefan>
•<VOICE=Julie France>
•<VOICE=Mark english>
•<VOICE=DUTCH>
•...
Typical names:
o"Microsoft Hortense - French (France)"
o"Microsoft Katja - German (Germany)"
o"Microsoft Stefan - German (Germany)"
o"Microsoft David - English (United States)"
o"Microsoft Mark - English (United States)"
o"Microsoft Zira - English (United States)"
o"Microsoft Helena - Spanish (Spain)"
o"Microsoft Laura - Spanish (Spain)"
o"Microsoft Pablo - Spanish (Spain)"
o"Microsoft Hedda - German (Germany)"
o"Microsoft Julie - French (France)"
o"Microsoft Paul - French (France)"
o"Microsoft Bart - Dutch (Belgium)"
o....
Microsoft:
The following table explains what languages and text-to-speech (TTS) voices are available in the latest version of Windows 10
Language, country, or region |
Male TTS voice |
Female TTS voice |
Arabic |
|
Hoda |
Arabic (Saudi Arabia) |
Naayf |
|
Bulgarian |
Ivan |
|
Catalan |
|
Herena |
Chinese (Simplified) |
Kangkang |
Huihui, Yaoyao |
Cantonese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR) |
Danny |
Tracy |
Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) |
Zhiwei |
Yating, Hanhan |
Croatian |
Matej |
|
Czech (Czech Republic) |
Jakub |
|
Danish |
|
Helle |
Dutch |
Frank |
|
English (Australia) |
James |
Catherine |
English (Canada) |
Richard |
Linda |
English (Great Britain) |
George |
Hazel, Susan |
English (India) |
Ravi |
Heera |
English (Ireland) |
Sean |
|
English (United States) |
David, Mark |
Zira |
Finnish |
|
Heidi |
Flemish (Belgian Dutch) |
Bart |
|
French (Canada) |
Claude |
Caroline |
French (France) |
Paul |
Hortence, Julie |
French (Switzerland) |
Guillaume |
|
German (Austria) |
Michael |
|
German (Germany) |
Stefan |
Hedda, Katja |
German (Switzerland) |
Karsten |
|
Greek |
Stefanos |
|
Hebrew |
Asaf |
|
Hindi (India) |
Hemant |
Kalpana |
Hungarian (Hungary) |
Szabolcs |
|
Indonesian (Indonesia) |
Andika |
|
Italian |
Cosimo |
Elsa |
Japanese |
Ichiro |
Ayumi, Haruka |
Malay |
Rizwan |
|
Norwegian |
Jon |
|
Polish (Poland) |
Adam |
Paulina |
Portuguese (Brazil) |
Daniel |
Maria |
Portuguese (Portugal) |
|
Helia |
Romanian (Romania) |
Andrei |
|
Russian (Russia) |
Pavel |
Irina |
Slovak (Slovakia) |
Filip |
|
Slovenian |
Lado |
|
Korean |
|
Heami |
Spanish (Spain) |
Pablo |
Helena, Laura |
Spanish (Mexico) |
Raul |
Sabina |
Swedish |
Bengt |
|
Tamil |
Valluvar |
|
Thai (Thailand) |
Pattara |
|
Turkish |
Tolga |
|
Vietnamese |
An |
|
Notes & resources:
•Multiple voices can be used in a single report, the <VOICE> tags apply to the following sound requests,
•If no <VOICE> is specified or <VOICE=>, the Windows default voice is used, in the default language,
•Install, download languages and voices for Immersive Reader, Read Mode, and Read Aloud
•Additional Microsoft "TTS" language files can also be downloaded: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27224
