There'a a thread where Rich helped me out with this

https://synthiam.com/Community/Questions/3771

I had to DL the Speech SDK from Microsoft to get other voices. I only have other MS voices so far but Rich I believe, is using voices he purchased somewhere.

yes, I am using a voice I purchased from Cereproc.

Setting up in ARC is simple, you don't need to change any windows settings just add the voice synth. settings control and select from the drop downs. You may need to play around with the options of adult/child, male/female etc. but they do work. I think some others use cepstral voices with success too.

I downloaded the Cepstral demo voice "David". Then downloaded and installed the the Speech SDK from Microsoft that Antron007 mentioned. Then rebooted. Then did as Rich said and started ARC and added the voice synth. control. When I clicked on the drop down box , the Cepstral David demo voice was there! It sounds great. It has a license message that is inserted into every other phrase that it speaks until I actually purchase it. But this proves the test.

Thanks guys! You made my day!

Yep I got Williams voice and added the Old Robot effect, it sounds great.

I'm glad I could help. I still haven't played with my voices yet but I will be posting a project in the next few days. My former bot met it's end and was harvested. I need arms and some more controls and coding and I'll be posting it. Voice is one of those things.

I purchased the Lawrence voice. It was $35. The only bad thing is EZ-Robot won't let me use the special effect for "Old Robot". It just uses his normal voice. Which I guess will be OK.

@Rich....His voice is UK English accent. Wanted him to sound kinda like Jarvis from Ironman movie

Yeah, I downloaded Lawrence demo for Melvin since he needs a different voice to Jarvis (who uses Ceraproc William and sounds really cool). I don't have the old robot effect on, I don't even know if I can use it or not, I assume not but then I want mine to sound more human like anyway

The voices may sound expensive at $35 (I think mine was around £40 so $60) but if you think about it, that's the same a a couple of good servos and in the grand scheme of it hardly anything if you add up the cost of building a robot (I stopped counting on Melvin a long time ago when I spent 3 time the original budget)

Yeah, budget kinda went out the window on mine. I think the price is very reasonable. It bums me out that I wont be able to get the old robot voice effect to work with ARC. It is a really cool effect. Also the gentleman I was speaking to at Cepsrtal pointed me to a beta test site where you can further modify your Cepstral voice settings, but I have not tried it yet. Here is the link:

cepstral.com/demos/sfx/rack

Now I am busy building a database of robot phrases to choose from to use at the Maker Fair Saturday. I'm going to meet Josh there and help out with the EZ Robot Booth. We are going to try and drum up some business for DJ.