Well, I allready know how to adjust the settings, it's just that they don't stay put after I close the options panel and start Hal. As soon as I start talking to Hal the voice will be back at it's default settings. I think that the voice seems to be affected by what kind of character I use. If I use the Hal or Zaba character then the voice will talk at normal speed, but if I chose the Chromedome character it will talk too fast. I think some one at the Digital Girl forum had this problem and that it had something to do with the registry or something. It sounded complicated, so I think I will just go with how it works right now. I will buy a new computer soon and installing Hal on a new fresh system might help, maybe.