Hi John and all, Last night I downloaded the 7-128 Game Book demo to my new laptop, and am running it with the integrated version of FreeTTS. When I opened the Settings dialog to change the voice rate the setting dialog showed FreeTTS was set to 10 fastest. However, FreeTTS is running extremely slow. I was unable to crank it up to something faster like 350-450 words a minute which is my usual voice rate for voice output. Does anyone else have this problem with FreeTTS talking slow? It sounds like it is half asleep. <Grin> If this is normal for the FreeTTS that ships with the Game Book could you guys at 7-128 upgrade the game Book to support the higher voice rates I know FreeTTS supports? I like the Pop Corn games, I think the Game Book is a cool piece of software, but I simply can't play the games listening to FreeTTS talking extremely slow. It isn't my usual speed so to speak. John, I mean this as constructive feedback, but generally speaking when a blind user uses a screen reader like Jaws with Eloquence after they get use to the speech output they tend to speed up the voice as fast as it can go. With text to speech engines like Eloquence that can be pretty fast. I knew a guy in college who set Jaws to 500 or 550 words a minute. I could barely understand it myself, but he was reading books, homework, etc like it was nothing. So when I entered your Game Book I had expected, at least was hoping for, the ability to speed up FreeTTS to something that was comfortable to me.
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