VoiceInformation.Gender Property

Definition

Namespace:

Windows.Media.SpeechSynthesis

Gets the gender setting of the speech synthesis engine (voice).

public:
 property VoiceGender Gender { VoiceGender get(); };

VoiceGender Gender();

public VoiceGender Gender { get; }

var voiceGender = voiceInformation.gender;

Public ReadOnly Property Gender As VoiceGender

Property Value

VoiceGender

The gender of the voice.

Examples

Here, we show how to select a gender for the voice (VoiceInformation.Gender) by using either the first female voice (VoiceGender) found, or just the default system voice (SpeechSynthesizer.DefaultVoice), if no female voice is found.

using (SpeechSynthesizer synthesizer = new SpeechSynthesizer())
{
    VoiceInformation voiceInfo =
        (
            from voice in SpeechSynthesizer.AllVoices
            where voice.Gender == VoiceGender.Female
            select voice
        ).FirstOrDefault() ?? SpeechSynthesizer.DefaultVoice;

    synthesizer.Voice = voiceInfo;

    // Windows.Media.SpeechSynthesis.SpeechSynthesisStream
    stream = await synthesizer.SynthesizeTextToStreamAsync(text);
}

Remarks

Here is a list of Microsoft-signed voices provided with Windows.

Voice	Gender	Windows 8	Windows 8.1	Name	Display name
English US	Female	Y	Y	Zira	Microsoft Zira (en-US, female).
English US	Male	Y	Y	David	Microsoft David (en-US, male)
English GB	Female	Y	Y	Hazel	Microsoft Hazel (en-GB, female)
French FR	Female	Y	Y	Hortense	Microsoft Hortense (fr-FR , female)
German DE	Female	Y	Y	Hedda	Microsoft Hedda (de-DE, female)
Spanish ES	Female	Y	Y	Helena	Microsoft Helena (es-ES, female)
Chinese PRC	Female	Y	Y	Huihui	Microsoft Huihui (zh-CN, female)
Chinese TW	Female	Y	Y	Hanhan	Microsoft Hanhan (zh-TW, female)
Japanese JA	Female	Y	Y	Haruka	Microsoft Haruka (ja-JP, female)
Korean KR	Female	Y	Y	Heami	Microsoft Heami (ko-KR, female)
Spanish MX	Female	N	Y	Sabina	Microsoft Sabina (es-MX, female)
Italian IT	Female	N	Y	Elsa	Microsoft Elsa (it-IT, female)
English IN	Female	N	Y	Heera	Microsoft Heera (en-IN, female)
Russian RU	Female	N	Y	Irina	Microsoft Irina (ru-RU, female)
Chinese HK	Female	N	Y	Tracy	Microsoft Tracy (zh-HK, female)
Polish PL	Female	N	Y	Paulina	Microsoft Paulina (pl-PL, female)
Portuguese BR	Female	N	Y	Maria	Microsoft Maria (pt-BR, female)

See also

• Speech interactions
• Speech recognition and speech synthesis sample