can't change voice in speech synth

Question

I can't change voice to male. It is always default, no matter what I try. Yet in my system, there ARE male voices.

I have tried:

synth.SelectVoiceByHints(VoiceGender.Male);
synth.SpeakAsync("Hello, my name is Evus.");

• This doesn't even do anything, it will just speak with the default Cortana voice.

  foreach (var v in synth.GetInstalledVoices().Select(v => v.VoiceInfo)) { Console.WriteLine("Name:{0}, Gender:{1}, Age:{2}", v.Description, v.Gender, v.Age); }

• returns 2 male voices from my system. And yet, when I select Male it doesn't work.

I have tried to select the gender of the voices.

• That doesn't do anything either.

How to install and use additional voices in SpeechSynthesizer()?

• I tried following the answer in here, but that doesn't help either.

Answer 1

try to use

synth.SelectVoiceByHints(VoiceGender.Female); or synth.SelectVoiceByHints(VoiceGender.Male);

then just use synth.Speak("example"); I have had no issue switching at all