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Blind people often go upto 600 words per minute and more with text-to-speech, which is, I think, would be an equivalent to 5x and more.

In fairness, they cannibalize their visual cortex to do that:)

There's the cue for my biennial reread of Peter Watts' Blindsight.

Went into my list. Appreciated :)

Did you read his followup Echopraxia? How would you say it compared to Blindsight?

I'm pretty sure you can train yourself to do the same, but the effort probably doesn't seem worth it for most people.

But its robotic and predictable, human speech is not.