hi bruce, yeah. this is a good feature, i'd like to see this, as long as the price didn't go up by too much, or two models were created, one with and one without. for now, since i've got gold wave, i'll probably be speeding up my books through that, or doing mp3's with kurzweil, so i'll have my speed already set, or just reading etext with doubletalk and music. but speeding up audio would be a cool feature, in case i do decide to buy books from audible brandon