Coleyounger1962,
The verification crap, as you put it was implemented to help keep Pirates and other thieves at bay or at least discouraged a bit. Robert put a lot of work into the program like many commercial programmers have done only to have the program passed around the table like a holiday turkey!
That's why the verification crap!
AS for the voice, if you don't like the default window's voice, feel free to purchase any other TTS voice on the market. L&H offers a couple of Free ones but they are not much when compared to some of the newer ones available from companies like AT&T, Cepstral, Cereproc, Ivona, NeoSpeech, Nextup, to name a few.
Good Luck!