Speech module - change to a male voice?

Expo SDK
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Using the Expo Speech module can I change it to a male voice somehow?

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You can probably set it like this:

Speech.speak(text, {
  voiceIOS: 'the-voice'
})

Note that SDK33 will change the name of this to voice instead of voiceIOS, and add a method called Speech.getAvailableVoicesAsync(). See CHANGELOG (and search for “voice”).

Right now the best source I have for values you can put in voiceIOS is in this comment: Add option to select voice by pyankoff · Pull Request #2833 · expo/expo · GitHub

iOS voices

All voices are not available on all iOS devices.
There is not a way to determine which voices are
available in <SDK33.

SDK33 will probably introduce Speech.getAvailableVoicesAsync()

{ name: "Maged", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Maged-compact", lang: "ar-SA", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Zuzana", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Zuzana-compact", lang: "cs-CZ", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Sara", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Sara-compact", lang: "da-DK", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Anna", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Anna-compact", lang: "de-DE", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Melina", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Melina-compact", lang: "el-GR", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Karen", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Karen-compact", lang: "en-AU", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Daniel", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Daniel-compact", lang: "en-GB", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Moira", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Moira-compact", lang: "en-IE", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Samantha (Enhanced)", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Samantha-premium", lang: "en-US", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Samantha", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Samantha-compact", lang: "en-US", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Tessa", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Tessa-compact", lang: "en-ZA", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Monica", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Monica-compact", lang: "es-ES", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Paulina", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Paulina-compact", lang: "es-MX", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Satu", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Satu-compact", lang: "fi-FI", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Amelie", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Amelie-compact", lang: "fr-CA", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Thomas", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Thomas-compact", lang: "fr-FR", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Carmit", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Carmit-compact", lang: "he-IL", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Lekha", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Lekha-compact", lang: "hi-IN", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Mariska", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Mariska-compact", lang: "hu-HU", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Damayanti", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Damayanti-compact", lang: "id-ID", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Alice", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Alice-compact", lang: "it-IT", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Kyoko", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Kyoko-compact", lang: "ja-JP", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Yuna", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Yuna-compact", lang: "ko-KR", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Ellen", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Ellen-compact", lang: "nl-BE", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Xander", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Xander-compact", lang: "nl-NL", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Nora", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Nora-compact", lang: "no-NO", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Zosia", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Zosia-compact", lang: "pl-PL", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Luciana", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Luciana-compact", lang: "pt-BR", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Joana", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Joana-compact", lang: "pt-PT", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Ioana", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Ioana-compact", lang: "ro-RO", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Milena", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Milena-compact", lang: "ru-RU", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Laura", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Laura-compact", lang: "sk-SK", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Alva", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Alva-compact", lang: "sv-SE", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Kanya", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Kanya-compact", lang: "th-TH", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Yelda", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Yelda-compact", lang: "tr-TR", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Ting-Ting", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Ting-Ting-compact", lang: "zh-CN", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Sin-Ji", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Sin-Ji-compact", lang: "zh-HK", localService: true, "default": true },
{ name: "Mei-Jia", voiceURI: "com.apple.ttsbundle.Mei-Jia-compact", lang: "zh-TW", localService: true, "default": true }
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Thank you. I tried but I can’t get any voices to change on Andriod. I guess I will wait for SDK 33. This is the last item before I release in the app store. The default female voice is just terrible!

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I’ve seen that there’s a canary release (npm install expo@canary) but I can’t tell you how to upgrade. So we’ll just have to wait. I’m waiting for SDK33 too. :smiley:

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