I couldn't get any voices to work with ARC. The cepstral demos didn't work for me either not even in/for windows. I have all kinds of voices in my lists but only Anna speaks. I guess I'll live with that until I figure something out. If I got a different voice program, will it work with ARC. Say I got dragon or TrueVoice, would ARC.use that instead of windows native speech?

@rgordon - Good luck to you and Josh at Maker Fair.

The Cepstral voice works with ARC but ARC does not let me use the special effect that would make the voice sound more "robotic". The voice is also available now under my Windows 7 Narrator as one of the voices I can choose.

Antron007, what Windows version are you using? Cause when I downloaded and installed the the Speech SDK from Microsoft that you pointed me to earlier and then rebooted, the voice is now available in ARC and in Windows 7.

@rgordon Win7Pro 32bit.

@rgordon I can send you the voices, what's your email

@Antron007

I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit Full.

I downloaded what you mentioned in this thread post #9 which I pasted here below:

"http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=5e86ec97-40a7-453f-b0ee-6583171b4530

A few notes.. The SKD doesn't unzip into a subfolder like alot of zip.exes do so make sure you unzip it to an empty folder if you don't want them mixed up with other files. I unzipped the Voices to the default location and then copied Sp5TTIntXP.Msm into C:\Windows\Speech\Engines and I have some voices now."

After I did this, my voice from Cepstral works in Windows and in ARC. However, the weird thing was when trying to use it in ARC I had to config the voice for: Lawrence Male Child Then the voice worked correctly. Don't know why it had to be set as [child]

@Tymtravler

Thanks but I ended up ordering the Cepstral voice Lawrence for $35. It sounds great.

If I don't set the correct options (in my case, William, Male, Adult) it defaults back to Anna.

You do have to play with those settings with some voices to get them to work.

@BothOfUHelping me. Thanks for the info. Maybe I missed some settings but if I select any of them as female it defaults to Anna and if I use a male voice I get the "blah"s. Ill fiddle with it when I get home. Thanks again.

Hey no problem rgordon, I also wanted the old robot sound from Cepstral but it would not work. I got Cepstral's tech support to email me the files to make the voice have the effects.