I’m going with 100% using Siri American voice number four. It took a little bit of work, but I pretty much got it to the point where it’s what I default to and I pretty much stay there. If I might be reading a book, I might bring it down to something like 85% to absorb the information more fully. But day-to-day Use is at 100%.
I'm using Eloquence with the rate multiplier at two hundred and the rate at seventy percent. I sometimes switch to Alex, WPM at five hundred and rate at seventy percent, with pitch range at two hundred.
On my Mac I have Serena Premium set to 70 which is about as far as I can manage. But I tend to do more technical things there.
On my phone, same voice set to 75 which is quite workable. But I'm doing less serious things on my phone. I'll probably see if I can manage bumping it up a little at some point.
On y watch it's 85% with Stephanie which is fine for most things but occasionally too fast if I get a message that requires a bit of effort to understand.
A lot of the time you are just hearing things that are familiar which allows a faster speech rate. When trying to learn something or if you are reading something with less familiar terms then it makes sense to go slow.
When I first started with a screen reader I felt very pressurised to speed it up as much as possible. I think Ventura had a faster speed rate than the previous version - I remember being very disheartened when I had to lower it below 70. But I've since learned that it's more important to actually understand what I'm hearing than to try to artificially improve my skills.
I'm always amazed when I hear that people are using Alex or Eloquence cranked up to the max. I wish I could cope with that but I'm beginning to realise that the speech rate isn't the main thing slowing me down with a screen reader.
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Using 100% on Siri American voice number four
I’m going with 100% using Siri American voice number four. It took a little bit of work, but I pretty much got it to the point where it’s what I default to and I pretty much stay there. If I might be reading a book, I might bring it down to something like 85% to absorb the information more fully. But day-to-day Use is at 100%.
Right now i am using elaquence.it is at 70 percent.
Right now i am using elaquence it is at 70 percent.
eloquence for me as well
I'm using Eloquence with the rate multiplier at two hundred and the rate at seventy percent. I sometimes switch to Alex, WPM at five hundred and rate at seventy percent, with pitch range at two hundred.
Alex
I am using alex on my iPad at 65%
Apple changed his speed of 70 so he is faster at 70% then all other voices and thats to fast for me
using eloquence
Hi, I'm using eloquence with rate multiplier at 200 percent and speech rate set to 70%.
Samantha at 65%
Samantha at 65%
Eloquence
I'm using Eloquence, speech rate 80 percent.
Eloquence
Using Eloquence at 75%.
Depends on what I'm doing
On my Mac I have Serena Premium set to 70 which is about as far as I can manage. But I tend to do more technical things there.
On my phone, same voice set to 75 which is quite workable. But I'm doing less serious things on my phone. I'll probably see if I can manage bumping it up a little at some point.
On y watch it's 85% with Stephanie which is fine for most things but occasionally too fast if I get a message that requires a bit of effort to understand.
A lot of the time you are just hearing things that are familiar which allows a faster speech rate. When trying to learn something or if you are reading something with less familiar terms then it makes sense to go slow.
When I first started with a screen reader I felt very pressurised to speed it up as much as possible. I think Ventura had a faster speed rate than the previous version - I remember being very disheartened when I had to lower it below 70. But I've since learned that it's more important to actually understand what I'm hearing than to try to artificially improve my skills.
I'm always amazed when I hear that people are using Alex or Eloquence cranked up to the max. I wish I could cope with that but I'm beginning to realise that the speech rate isn't the main thing slowing me down with a screen reader.