Yes, I too find that NVDA starts chopping off words past 95 percent, however, I believe that is mainly due to synthesizers/voices. I use Microsoft David, but my wife uses eloquence with NVDA and she has it at insane speeds.

To the person who was talking about entering text on phones, you can, actually dictate into any text field, apart from password fields. Using the default iOS keyboard you should have a dictate button you can simply press to start speaking. I'm waiting for my Android phone to arrive, so I can't talk about that platform with much experience, but the G board has very good dictation and I would think it could be used in almost every text field.

I agree that on-screen QWERTY keyboards are not very efficient, but I really love using the built in on-screen braille keyboard on iOS. For me, using the braille keyboard is very very comfortable and fast. I can easily get speeds of over forty words a minute, when I'm just typing at a average, comfortable speed, and I believe I could type faster then many sighted people using on-screen QWERTY keyboards; plus I find the spell correct function much nicer to use on the braille keyboard when compared to the default QWERTY keyboard. There is a similar keyboard on Android. I only have a tiny bit of experience with that keyboard, but it seems to work well; however, to use it you do have to suspend TalkBack, which does make it a little less ideal when compared to the iOS option. I have been using different versions of on-screen braille keyboards since around 2012, so it might take you a little time to become comfortable with the concept if you are just starting out. By the way, I understand that if you don't know how to type in braille this style of keyboard does you no good, but I do think it's the best method for typing blind people have on virtual keyboards.

On NVDA espeak-ng max, rate boost around 30-40%.

On voiceover, Alex at 95-100%.

In Voice Dream, I like Peter a lot but it doesn't get super fast (530 max.) I've recently been using iOS gordon voice at around 750-870 depending on what I'm reading. I have had to add a lot of dictionary entries, as it pronounces a lot of words wrong that other voices don't.

I've been using TTS at least some of the time for about a decade now.

I’ve been using bard, voiceover and jaws still at normal speed for about 2 years now. I was an extremely fast reader but with audio i just can’t focus on the content when its sped up.

I use my phone at 100 percent, my mac's closer to 70 though.

I use to be able to use it between 80% and 90%. However, for reading I slowed it down a bit. I can’t understand large rapid blocks of text for everyday messages liek this, 80% was fine. But I slowed it down for reading, and thus kept the rate there for everything else. Now I am not use to the sppeed. It’s very much a trained thing. I am going to have to retrain myself for faster speeds of listening. I think I use it at default on the computer, so fairly slow. I’ve never been a auditory learner though for books and texts. I have always used a read/write format. I am currently. At 70 percent and I just recently changed it. It works but it still feels a little fast. It was at 60 percent. I will probably slow it down for more extensive text again.

Eloquence at around 81% right now. I started in 2000. Although I have a friend who started several years before me (sometime in the 90s) and is probably at about 60% if that.

Hey! Thank you for that information! The part about keyboards was very helpful till now I have been using Virtual Keyboard but let me try The Brave One

Karin Compact on iOS at 100 percent, David on NVDA at 95 percent. I tend to turn speeds up to the fastest speed that does not cause the voice to start skipping words, or become incoherent. Faster speeds will become possible with more experience. I have been using screen readers for about 9 years now, and when I first started I could not believe how fast other blind people's computers sounded. My wife's computer still sounds fast to me, she was born blind, so she has about a 23 year head start on me. You might try bumping your speed up a tiny bit and trying to live with it for a few days, I started doing that back in the day and it would be amazing how quickly something that had been fast would become comfortable.

Swedish voice over at 75%. English at 70%, and when I use finnissh I have to go down to 45% I think.

Eloquence at 70%.