On Mi, Feb 13 2013, Dmitri Paduchikh wrote: > 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 Yep, I've seen that mail and definitely will try the suggested workaround, thanks. It would be gread if the buffer size would be also configurable for module-udev-detect nonetheless.