Spd.conf ruined my speech. Please help.

[Linux for blind general discussion]

I ran it while trying to make fenrir work. Now everything is VERY slow
and I get weird pitch changes with caiptal letters.

Before, I was able to adjust the max rate in the
/etc/speech-dispatcher/modules/espeak.conf file. That file is still
there, but the rate settings no longer seem to apply. I can't function
with speech this slow. Please help.