Nope. Volume fine. I looked at the custom voices and now it's downloading different voices. I can't make it stop even after force quit. I went into the accessibility again and speech and it's still downloading. Someone online said something about stoping it with activity monitor, but I really couldn't see how to do that except that they said to go to Network and then separate by bytes or something of that nature. This is really aggravating.
My most frequent failure is because I have the output volume too low.