Thank you! What platform were you running it on, and were you using TTS, a screen reader, or nothing? I haven't done too much performance testing, and I know a few others had commented on the speed as well - so maybe there's something to improve!
I tried the text-to-speech briefly, but it was very hard to understand, so I (sighted player) turned it off. If it's going through the OS, that might be the issue -- Linux's TTS is not exactly cutting edge, sounding pretty "Gorf".