Those phrases sound very natural indeed. But are they carefully selected demo phrases, for which the system might have been tuned? That's always a danger with m

Those phrases sound very natural indeed. But are they carefully selected demo phrases, for which the system might have been tuned? That's always a danger with marketing demos. So I have two questions: 1. How does that engine sound when reading arbitrary text at high speed? 2. Can I run it on my own computer, so I can have low latency in my screen reader? (That, of course, is a problem with Amazon Polly as well.)