text to speech unexpectedly waits

cookedasparagus8

Scratcher_1246 wrote:
Yeah this is annoying, they need to fix this

It's a literal feature

ScodexPerson

It waits intentionally to prevent spamming.

gogo2233

It seems to be fine for me…I tested one of my projects

scraGid

ScodexPerson wrote:
It waits intentionally to prevent spamming.

But That makes no sense! I can't have two people talking at the same time anymore!!!

<[Your logic] = (pick random (3) to (banana))>

cookedasparagus8

scraGid wrote:
ScodexPerson wrote:
It waits intentionally to prevent spamming.
But That makes no sense! I can't have two people talking at the same time anymore!!!
<[Your logic] = (pick random (3) to (banana))>

Ever heard of broadcasts?

nembence

cookedasparagus8 wrote:
scraGid wrote:
ScodexPerson wrote:
It waits intentionally to prevent spamming.
But That makes no sense! I can't have two people talking at the same time anymore!!!
<[Your logic] = (pick random (3) to (banana))>
Ever heard of broadcasts?

Problem is, if you've used up the speech block quota before the broadcast, then there will be a 4 seconds delay between the actual sounds happening.

-DerpWorld-

do you guys mean a delay before or after the character says the thing? because the delay is before the speech for me

scraGid

nembence wrote:
cookedasparagus8 wrote:
scraGid wrote:
ScodexPerson wrote:
It waits intentionally to prevent spamming.
But That makes no sense! I can't have two people talking at the same time anymore!!!
<[Your logic] = (pick random (3) to (banana))>
Ever heard of broadcasts?
Problem is, if you've used up the speech block quota before the broadcast, then there will be a 4 seconds delay between the actual sounds happening.

I don't want to have to switch to AI voiceovers, because the sites might be blocked, and the recorede sounds sound awful! This is so exhausting!

jamesrulz29

This happened to me too!

say [I must be hallucinating!!! :O] for (2) secs

ScodexPerson

Unfortunatly, my project broke (but that one was already banned).

medians

ScodexPerson wrote:
Unfortunatly, my project broke (but that one was already banned).

Yea, I was just gonna ask if this could break any projects
I get why they did it, but that still sux

jamesrulz29

Now I'll never have two voices talking at the same time!

nembence

I think Scratch could “fix” it by also waiting after the sound happened:

define speak (text)
wait until <can fetch a sound? :: tts>
start sound (sound for (text) :: tts)
wait (time for getting 1 fetch ticket :: tts) seconds // new
wait until <sound ended?>

This way the sounds won't get out of sync with the speech bubbles, and the quota isn't drained unless you run multiple speech blocks in paralell.

-oesflag-

My object show runs on tts :sob:

cnedisonninja_174

this is likely due to the update where they removed the tts brodcast glitch, but also ruined all text to speech

r3hehehehehhe

kiku-1110 wrote:

please don't spam in the forums

BuddyYohann

when I receive [ texttospeechbug v]

change [ timewasted v] by (999)
play sound [ bro v] until done
if <sound done? = 1> then
change [absoluteBS v] by (1)
end
forever
play sound [rage v] until done
end

Last edited by BuddyYohann (June 1, 2026 01:25:27)

jamesrulz29

when green flag clicked
play sound [This has been annoying me for MONTHS! v] until done
stop [all v]

jamesrulz29

AARRGG!!! I'm so mad!

-DerpWorld-

this really annoys me, i always used this for animations and it ruined the pacing

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