diff --git a/mimic3_http/templates/index.html b/mimic3_http/templates/index.html
index c6db391..9b2010c 100644
--- a/mimic3_http/templates/index.html
+++ b/mimic3_http/templates/index.html
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@
             </div>
             <div class="row mt-3 justify-content-center">
               <p id="privacy">
-                <strong>Privacy:</strong> this website does not cache the text you send or the audio that is synthesized.
+                <strong>Privacy:</strong> this website does not store the text you send or the audio that is synthesized.
               </p>
             </div>
         </div>
diff --git a/opentts_abc/ssml.py b/opentts_abc/ssml.py
index 5daffe6..804a78b 100644
--- a/opentts_abc/ssml.py
+++ b/opentts_abc/ssml.py
@@ -489,6 +489,7 @@ class SSMLSpeaker:
         LOG.debug("prosody: %s", self._prosody)
 
         self.tts.volume = self._prosody.volume
+        self.tts.rate = self._prosody.rate
 
     # -------------------------------------------------------------------------