Speech central, any way to minimize pauses when switching chapters?

By Igna Triay, 20 February, 2023

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iOS and iPadOS

Is there a setting to shorten the time when reading books in speech central and say you go from chapter 1 to chapter 2, to shorten the pause between chapters? At the moment I seem to have a 3 to 4 second pause whenever advancing to a new chapter when reading, but is there a way to make said pause between chapters shorter?

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By Labsii on Friday, February 24, 2023 - 01:45

From the technical perspective, there are no pauses aside from those that may come from pure processing of information. If you use Microsoft voices that may also come from having no prepared buffer for the first sentence of the chapter so the app also needs to wait for the server to return it.

I’ve tested the epub file Alice’s adventures in Wonderland with Apple voices and there are no pauses that would be longer than pauses among other sentences. I don’t have some particularly high-end device, it is just iPhone 12.

I haven’t considered some optimization regarding this as there were no previous reports (and Microsoft voices are fairly new thing in the app). Also every optimization would need to include keeping two chapters in memory at once which may be demanding for some very old devices that are currently supported like iPhone 6s. But it is likely that these old devices won’t receive some future update at which point I may also consider to make such optimizations.