Voice = Cepstral Lawrence Gender = Male Age = Child Emphasis = Moderate Rate = Medium Volume = 100

Set the voice you want as the default voice in Windows control panel. Try every combination of the settings you can try, including changing the voice itself.

Some voices need settings that may not look correct. My Windows 8 PC needs different settings set to my Windows 7 PC too, which I can't quite figure out why that is but I'll blame it on Microsoft.

I'll read through the whole topic tomorrow and see if I can spot anything that's not quite right, I should have been asleep 40 minutes go so can't do it now

@Antron007

Did you copy the file Sp5TTIntXP.Msm into C:\Windows\Speech\Engines folder? Then you re-booted. Correct? What voice are you trying to use? Where did you get it?

What I just found out by testing was that Microsoft Mike and Microsoft Mary show up in my ARC voice list but they do not work. Only Microsoft Anna and the voice I got from Cepstral work.

Microsoft Anna works with any of the combination of settings except "Gender"= Male Cepstral Lawrence only works when I set "Gender"= Male and "Age" can bet set to anything except Adult. If I set it to adult it goes BLAH BLAH.

OK all I did was load up the Cepstral Speech tool and run the test message then I loaded ARC to start hacking away at the settings and some how Diane and David work now.

I have it set to David and if I have it on any gender but female it will be David. If I select female it will be Diane. Only exception is that if I have gender to not set and age to not set it will play nothing but if I don't set the gender but set any age it will be David.

I did not set any of them as my windows voice unless the Cepstral program did it behind the scenes some how because Windows says I'm using Anna. I wish I could explain what happened to make them work now. After I got it working I used the default.sfx method above and David is rocking old-robot as well.

Thanks for all the help.

Yay! Congrats!

@rgordon Wow glad it now works, when I called tech support they did say they where going to setup a how to change the effects page because that was not there when I needed it. They just sent me the instruction and files. I like William with the old robot effect, just enough effect but clear enough to understand.

@ Cepstral voice users.

Hey guys. So, I have a Windows 7 laptop with a Cepstal voice installed. A while ago I configured the laptop to use the effects following @rgordons tutorial in post #15 and it's been working great with my ARC project.

Here's my problem though. I just purchased another laptop running Windows 8 and has three default voices installed. I copied the Cepstral voice over and configured the effects again, and the Windows text to speech is now using it. But when I try to use it in ARC, it only uses one of the default voices. I have tried every configuration I can in the speech settings, but the voice does not change (except "rate" ) and even changing the voice to one of the other default voices makes no difference.

Any ideas on what else I need to do guys? confused confused

Have you tried rebooting then a fresh download and re-install ARC?