Self-voicing on windows 10. Changing the voice gender? (2025)

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"Do good work." - Virgil Ivan "Gus" Grissom
Software > Drama • https://www.patreon.com/renpytom

So I tried my hand at it.

Change say.vbs to

Text = WScript.Arguments(0)Speaker = WScript.Arguments(1)Set s = CreateObject("SAPI.SpVoice")For Each Voice In s.GetVoices I = I + 1 If InStr(Voice.GetDescription, Speaker) > 0 Then Set s.Voice = s.GetVoices.Item(I-1) Exit For End IfNexts.Speak Text

Not the best way but it should work. This script basically checks if the required voice pack is installed on the system. If yes, it uses that voice, otherwise it uses the default voice.

And for this to work, change the last line in default_tts_function to

process = subprocess.Popen([ "wscript", renpy.exports.fsencode(say_vbs), renpy.exports.fsencode(s), renpy.exports.fsencode("Zira") ])

Or maybe it would be better to create a config variable for sapi voice. I dunno.

You guys are gonna think I'm stupid, but I'm not actually developing a game myself. I'm just trying to get a couple Ren'Py games to use a different voice. Particularly Starlight Vega. I posted this question in the Starlight Vega forum, but I've yet to receive a response.

So, I edited the say.vbs file to reflect what you suggested, DragoonHP, but I'm unclear about what you mean by "changing the last line in default_tts_function". Is this a user-configurable thing, or does the dev need to do this? Sorry for the embarrassingly nooby questions. I'm just a dumb end user looking for a solution.

It will be a better if the devs change it. But in your case, you can just change the second line to

Speaker = "Zira"

directly. (Instead of Zira, you can use other names like Hazel, David, Sam etc)

Sorry to necropost but i'm having the same problem.

While the block code about say.vbs seems to be already set in renpy 7.3.5.606, the other line in the default_tts_function wasn't. So i did what it says, but it causes renpy to not start at all (not just the game, the whole renpy launcher as well) without logging anything. putting back the original line fixes it but well, back to start then.

Does anyone find an idea on how to fix it?