> In the leaves section, a tremendous amount of time is lots in "hash" 
> and process resume. I am rusty on hash.  Any practical suggestions on
> improving the performance of hash or any of the other parts.  I would
> like to heard bigMan Speaker speak at a normal tempo.

My guess is that there is a program varriable somewhere that controls
tempo. I seem to remember that back in the late '80s Creative Labs
(sound blaster) delivered several text-to-speech utilities, my friends
who all had better sound cards than me enjoyed playing around with the
varrious varriables... 

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