there is a very simple reason the synthesizer "speeds" up, because it 
is recordings of a female saying the words. It is not a synthesizer, 
only recordings of words, etc. In order to accommodate true speed up, 
it would have to be a type of synthesizer as in JFW, human speech 
types as Tom or Samantha, Neo Speech Paul or Kate.
Then, it would speak much more than it can with just recordings.

Curt
W B 6 H E F

At 04:30 AM 1/6/2012, you wrote:
>I experienced the same thing and believe someone fell asleep when =
>developing this feature. In fact my only complaints with the speech is =
>the fact you cannot speed it up and you cannot set what things speak. =
>For example, when I adjust the filter I would rather not hear "shift =
>600" blah blah.
>Otherwise, the voice is really great on this rig.
>
>On Jan 5, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Steve wrote:
>
> > BlankOk, got my TS-590 all installed.
> >=20
> > With the VGS-1, supposedly Menu 7 is supposed to change the announce =
>speed.=20
> > It varies from 1 to 4.
> >=20
> > However, on my unit, it changes pitch.  Do I have a defect, or is =
>announce=20
> > speed one of those things that's lost in the translation?
> >=20
> > Steve, K8SP
> > Lansing, MI