diff --git a/set-voice.sh b/set-voice.sh
index e878f21..8f40927 100755
--- a/set-voice.sh
+++ b/set-voice.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # Set Voice
 # Set the default wine voice based on installed options.
+# Rate can be specified as a numeric argument to this script, 1 through 9.
+# The default rate is 7
 #
 # Copyright 2020, Storm Dragon, <storm_dragon@linux-a11y.org>
 #
@@ -104,7 +106,9 @@ set_voice() {
     done
     fullVoice=${voiceListFullName[$counter]}
     wineserver -k # If we don't do this it's likely wine will overwrite our reverted change or even clobber the registry key entirely
-    sed -i -E -e 's/"DefaultTokenId"="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\\\(SOFTWARE|Software)\\\\(Wow6432Node\\\\|)Microsoft\\\\Speech\\\\Voices\\\\Tokens\\\\[^"]+"/"DefaultTokenId"="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\\\'"${fullVoice//\\/\\\\}"'"/g' "${WINEPREFIX}/user.reg"
+    # Remove any existing rate change for voices
+    sed -i '/"DefaultTTSRate"=dword:/d' "${WINEPREFIX}/user.reg"
+    sed -i -E -e 's/"DefaultTokenId"="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\\\(SOFTWARE|Software)\\\\(Wow6432Node\\\\|)Microsoft\\\\Speech\\\\Voices\\\\Tokens\\\\[^"]+"/"DefaultTokenId"="HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\\\'"${fullVoice//\\/\\\\}"'"\n"DefaultTTSRate"=dword:0000000'${2:-7}'/g' "${WINEPREFIX}/user.reg"
 }
 
 test_voice() {
@@ -151,7 +155,7 @@ voice="$(menulist ${voiceList[@]})"
 
 case $? in
     0)
-            set_voice "$voice" ; exit=0 ;;
+            set_voice "$voice" "$1" ; exit=0 ;;
     3)
             test_voice "$voice";;
     *)