It has been several months since I had the opportunity to do read aloud, but am getting back into my follow with school, and that includes having resources read to me, as I follow along (helps me to retain).
The problem is that is is now very slow. I don't mean the speech is slow, what I mean is that it only reads a little at a time, then there is a huge pause, then maybe a little more, etc. I know for a fact that is not how it used to work. I could set my preferences to 1.4 or 2x and just let it go and I could listen to it with no extra-long pauses at all.