diff --git a/Scripts/speak-date.ps1 b/Scripts/speak-date.ps1
index 8f70617c..169d15d7 100644
--- a/Scripts/speak-date.ps1
+++ b/Scripts/speak-date.ps1
@@ -9,11 +9,20 @@
 function Speak([string]$Text) {
 	write-progress "$Text"
 	$Voice = new-object -ComObject SAPI.SPVoice
+	$Voices = $Voice.GetVoices()
+	foreach ($OtherVoice in $Voices) {
+		$Description = $OtherVoice.GetDescription()
+		if ($Description -like "*- English (United States)") {
+			$Voice.Voice = $OtherVoice
+			break
+		}
+	}
 	[void]$Voice.Speak($Text)
 	write-progress -complete "$Text"
 }
 
 try {
+	[system.threading.thread]::currentthread.currentculture=[system.globalization.cultureinfo]"en-US"
 	Speak("Today is $((Get-Date).ToShortDateString())")
 	exit 0
 } catch {
diff --git a/Scripts/speak-test.ps1 b/Scripts/speak-test.ps1
index 9a886edf..971d7bad 100755
--- a/Scripts/speak-test.ps1
+++ b/Scripts/speak-test.ps1
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 function Speak { param([string]$Text)
 	write-output "'$Text'"
-	$Result = $Voice.speak("$Text")
+	[void]$Voice.speak("$Text")
 }
 
 try {
diff --git a/Scripts/speak-time.ps1 b/Scripts/speak-time.ps1
index 1ea1eb68..92c6617f 100755
--- a/Scripts/speak-time.ps1
+++ b/Scripts/speak-time.ps1
@@ -9,11 +9,20 @@
 function Speak([string]$Text) {
 	write-progress "$Text"
 	$Voice = new-object -ComObject SAPI.SPVoice
+	$Voices = $Voice.GetVoices()
+	foreach ($OtherVoice in $Voices) {
+		$Description = $OtherVoice.GetDescription()
+		if ($Description -like "*- English (United States)") {
+			$Voice.Voice = $OtherVoice
+			break
+		}
+	}
 	[void]$Voice.Speak($Text)
 	write-progress -complete "$Text"
 }
 
 try {
+	[system.threading.thread]::currentthread.currentculture=[system.globalization.cultureinfo]"en-US"
 	Speak("It's now $((Get-Date).ToShortTimeString())")
 	exit 0
 } catch {
diff --git a/Scripts/voice-control.ps1 b/Scripts/voice-control.ps1
index f41ae0f4..b1928ece 100755
--- a/Scripts/voice-control.ps1
+++ b/Scripts/voice-control.ps1
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ $PathToRepo = "$PSScriptRoot/.."
 
 try {
 	write-output "Init speech recognition engine..."
+	[system.threading.thread]::currentthread.currentculture=[system.globalization.cultureinfo]"en-US"
 	[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Speech") 
 	$speechRecogEng = [System.Speech.Recognition.SpeechRecognitionEngine]::new()
 	#$speechRecogEng.InitialSilenceTimeout = 15