> I speak very fast. It’s like the words are piled up in my mouth and I can’t say one without the rest tumbling out. Through my whole life people have told me t

> I speak very fast. It’s like the words are piled up in my mouth and I can’t say one without the rest tumbling out. Through my whole life people have told me to slow down, speak more clearly, and enunciate. I can do it if I concentrate but I quickly relapse into gushing out words. > That’s 55 words. At my normal conference rate, I’d say that in 16 seconds. At 130 wpm, it’d be 25 seconds I'd say I speak slowly, and when going for maximum enunciation, that paragraph took me 16 seconds. MacOS text to speech was 18 seconds. I wonder where 130WPM comes from? Seems way too slow. $ time say 'I speak very fast. It’s like the words are piled up in my mouth and I can’t say one without the rest tumbling out. Through my whole life people have told me to slow down, speak more clearly, and enunciate. I can do it if I concentrate but I quickly relapse into gushing out words.' real 0m18.822s user 0m0.007s sys 0m0.006s