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 at lists.freedesktop.org/msg05923.html -- With best regards Dmitri Paduchikh