Gtts Male Voice -

Here’s a useful, practical guide to using — covering how to get it, why it matters, and workarounds since GTTS itself doesn’t natively support male/female selection. 1. The Core Fact: GTTS Has No Explicit Male/Female Parameter The gtts library (Google Text-to-Speech) uses Google’s standard TTS API, which provides one voice per language — and that voice is typically female-sounding for most languages (e.g., English, Spanish, French). You cannot directly call gtts with voice='male' .

On Windows, David (male) is usually available. On macOS, use 'com.apple.speech.synthesis.voice.vegas' (male). If you need professional male voices (like en-US-Neural2-D or en-GB-Neural2-B ), use Google Cloud Text-to-Speech — but not the free gtts . gtts male voice

return male_audio male_audio = gtts_male_voice("This is a male-sounding voice using GTTS.") male_audio.export("male_voice.mp3", format="mp3") Here’s a useful, practical guide to using —

# Change pitch (negative = lower, positive = higher) # Lower pitch simulates male voice new_sample_rate = int(audio.frame_rate * (2.0 ** (pitch_semi / 12.0))) male_audio = audio._spawn(audio.raw_data, overrides='frame_rate': new_sample_rate) male_audio = male_audio.set_frame_rate(audio.frame_rate) You cannot directly call gtts with voice='male'