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Re:Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 b... by thrwayxyz on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @09:38PM (#20883133)
I'm fully sighted but I use espeak tts at around 1000wpd for fluff text like ecnomist articles and 300wpm for heavy going text like the text sections of math books.

I also watch most video at 2/3 times the speed since the skills seem transferable.

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Re:Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 b... by sabujp on Thursday September 05, 2019 @01:00AM (#20883964)
what flags do you use for espeak, just -s 1000 seems incomprehensible to me
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Re:Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 b... by thrwayxyz on Thursday September 05, 2019 @09:43AM (#20886559)
-p 100 -s 1000 -v male7
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