Text-to-speech is jumping over sections of text.

Text-to-speech will sometimes miss saying sections of text.
My guess is that it is when the processor has too much other work to do (ie. rendering the remainder of a page).
The only flaw is that during times when it stops speaking, it still continues to move through the text. As a result when it continues to speek it has left some of the words out.
Is there an option to prevent it jumping sections of text when overloaded?

lllaass wrote:
What is the source of the text? Are the non-spoken works different? Is there a pattern to them?
An example would be the selection of a paragraph of text from a web page in safari.
The text is selected, "Speak" is selected from the popup options and it may start to speak, but pause for a period of time and when it is talking again it has jumped over a number of words.

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