Hello.. Noob here to the community. You can try clicking start, scroll down to Windows System, click control panel, then speech recognition. You will see text to speech in lower left. Maybe you will be able to change it through there. I hope this helps

Ed

Thanks Madrocker, the only option there is Microsoft Hazel Desktop-English Great Britain. Is there a way to add voices there from the computer?

From what I've read you have to

Click Time & Language > Region & Language.

Under Languages, click + Add a language.

Select the language you want to use from the list, and then choose which region's version you want to use. Your download will begin immediately.

I haven't tried this since my EZb software is on a 7 machine running Crystal voice engine.. hope this helps

 Ed

I set the computer so it thinks it's in the States and I was able to get Zira English US set as the default voice and I deleted English (UK) from the computer, however, when I run Zira on the Speech Settings control it still has a British accent. Madrocker what site are you getting voices from?

I had purchased AT&T natural voices Crystal16 a while back along with text aloud in the XP days. I backed up the voice engine on an offline drive. Sorry to hear the U.K accent is still there. I looked at the add language section and it just says English. Odd that its only U.K on your system.

Now I have the following voices in the Speech Settings control; Microsoft Hazel Desktop Microsoft Zira Desktop Microsoft David Desktop Cepstral David

and as I was worried about - they all sound like Hazel English accent!

Here is a site that may help you with the accent issue http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/change-cortanas-voice-windows-10

Mine 10 machine looks like this

Bob,

This tutorial will kill Hazel and let the Cepestral voice work.

https://synthiam.com/Tutorials/UserTutorials/32/1

Note that step 5 has the US/CN directory. Steve is in the UK so his system os slightly different.

Alan