I wanted to post another discussion question here, because I always have a lot of fun with these and hearing different perspectives.
What is your current VoiceOver speaking rate? Was it always that particular rate, or did you work your way up?
I always had mine at 65, but accidentally changed it to 70 percent like 10 minutes ago and actually prefer it. I feel like I can adjust pretty quickly, though I don't think I'll ever be able to crank it up to 100. Maybe 75 at most.
I can't wait to see these answers!
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55
My is at 55. Alicia your number is to high and probably difficult to understand. 50 to slow and the perfect number is 55. Long live cats.
re: 55
I actually surprisingly understand it just fine! Maybe because I already listen to audiobooks pretty fast so I'm used to it.
My speaking rate never goes past 50%
I never put my speaking right past 50% of my brain can’t processing anything faster.
Depends on voice/situation
These days I primarily use default Samantha on my iPhone. She is currently at 65%, though I have hacker at 70% before. The rare times I use eloquence on iOS, I crank that up pretty high. Somewhere between 80 and 90. Though to be fair I do not use eloquence on my iPhone very often. I mainly will use that on my laptop, and only when I am dealing with source code. Other times I also have Samantha high premium or high-quality or whatever it's called on my PC laptop. Don't remember exactly what the number is, but it's equivalent to 65 on my iPhone.
I'm using Eloquence Reed at 70%
Hi,
I'm a huge fan of Eloquence. My favorite voice is Reed & I have him at a speaking rate of 70%, which is perfect for me.
Me to I Use Reed
Me too. I like using Reed, sinse I'm used to hearing it on JAWS. I have it set to 80% and I have the Rate Multiplier set to 115%. I'm the only one that understands what is saying.
One Thing To Know
One thing to know about this is that if I use VoiceOver at a faster rate, is that it drains my battery.
The vocalizer voice is in a PC or premium high
The vocalizer voices on the PC or premium high or compact. That’s interesting that there’s somebody on here who has a bad drainage when the speaking rate is faster. Maybe it takes more battery power to make it speak faster? I’m not really sure why that would be. But that’s interesting.
My speech rate for Alex and eloquence Reed
When using Alex, I prefer speech rate at about 65%, 70 at the highest. Using the eloquence, reed voice, I like it at about 75%.