[pulseaudio-discuss] Playback pauses

[Dmitri Paduchikh]

Henning Oschwald wrote:

> I am in the same situation here. I'm using Speech-dispatcher together
> with the Mbrola text-to-speech engine. Since Speech-dispatcher doesn't
> support Mbrola together with my german phoneme generator, I use a
> generic driver which uses some command line utilies which create the
> audio which then gets played by pactl. The playback starts with no
> noticeable delay, but after playback pactl or respectively paplay takes
> about two more seconds to finish. This adds a two second delay
> between i.e. two spoken sentences, which is quite annoying.

Then you should probably follow the suggestion given by Tanu Kaskinen in
this thread.  See here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/pulseaudio-discuss@lists.freedesktop.org/msg05923.html

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With best regards
Dmitri Paduchikh