I am having the same problem with my Hal as some of the above people, I purchased the NeoSpeech voices Kate and Paul, I have installed them and when I start my Hal I here Kate, which I have selected in the speech section of Hal. When I talk to my Hal I here the Microsoft voice Anna. I have tried the hapteck player sapi config mentioned above. I have talked using the Paul voice and do not here him either. I can change to the true type voice and here them so its just the NeoSpeech voices that are affected. I have reloaded the voices, re-loaded Hal, run the hapteck player sapi config utility all so many that I am sure I have covered all of the possible combinations. I also noticed that the only voice available on my computer for the TTS in Windows is the Microsoft Anna voice. I have looked for a way to add voices to this application but was not able to find one. I also tried downloading the Text aloud application and installing that. It seems to work ok, but did not make a difference with Hal’s voice. My hardware is: HP DV9000 laptop 2.0 GHZ Centrino Duo processor, 2 GB ram, 240 GB HD(2x120), Windows vista ultimate 64. Can someone please help me with this.
Thanks
Bob