Re: Lobby chat?

Hey @dSKyNafinchin,

There isn't currently a way to send in-game messages to people outside your own party. I've seen similar messages from other players pop into my group's chat a few times as well but it's not an intended part of the chat at this time.

As far as the robot-ish voice, that sounds like you may have the "Play Incoming Text Chat as Speech" option enabled in the Audio settings menu! That's a separate setting not directly related to this issue.