Adobe reader won't speed up

[Jacob Schmude]

Hi Everyone
Does anyone know how to get Adobe reader to speak at a faster rate?  
I've confirmed that my speech settings in system prefs are correct,  
but no matter what I do in Adobe reader, even if I override the system  
prefs defaults and set the speech rate to a higher value, it doesn't  
seem to actually do anything. Pitch and volume work, but rate just  
won't. Am I doing something wrong here?

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