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[Jeff Dittel <jeff AT britlan.com>]

This is what I use in my init.el file to set the speech rate:

(dtk-set-rate 230 t)

Jeff


Jeff Dittel

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> On Oct 23, 2026, at 12:36 PM, Greg Wocher (via emacspeak Mailing List) 
> <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
> 
> Here is what I am typing: 
> (setq espeak-default-speech-rate 300)
> I know the file is being loaded because emacspeak is loading when I open 
> emacs. 
> 
> 
> Greg Wocher
> 
>> On Oct 23, 2026, at 11:51 AM, Zachary Kline <zkline AT speedpost.net> wrote:
>> 
>> What are you typing? If you can include the lisp, it would be helpful. 
>> Are you sure your file is actually being executed?
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> 
>>> On Oct 23, 2026, at 8:48 AM, Greg Wocher <emacspeak AT emacspeak.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> I was able to get emacspeak up and running on my arch installation. I 
>>> never could get it to work on Fedora 44. I am running into an issue 
>>> though. I cannot set the default speech rate in my init.el file. No 
>>> matter how I type the command it does not work. I am using emacs 31.1 
>>> which might be part of the issue but I am not sure. What can I do to set 
>>> the default rate?
>>> 
>>> THanks,
>>> Greg WOcher
>>> 
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