I am working my way through hilegass book, and doing the speakline app now. I am trying to extend on its functionality. I added a slider so i can set the rate, this slider is disabled when the mac is speaking, though i would like to disable it if the active voice rate cant be changed. I looked in the documentation and aperantly there exists some strings that hold values for the different voices, i thought checking for NSSpeechRateProperty would be the most plausible, but it just returns "null" no matter the voice, any one care to help?