Minimum delay should be zero

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Move the delay slider to the far left
2. Lowest possible delay setting is 5
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I would expect that the delay can be set to zero. 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
gespeaker 0.7, Ubuntu 9.10 64bit

Please provide any additional information below.
A minimum delay of 5 produces quite choppy speech. I synthesized the same 
German text with espeak+mbrola (german-mbrola-6) and the output sounds 
much more natural: "espeak -f test.txt -v german-mbrola-6|mbrola -e /usr/
share/mbrola/voices/de6 - - | aplay -r22050 -fS16" Passing an empty string 
in gespeakerUI.py:430 did the trick. Is there any reason for the limiting 
the minimum delay to 5?

Best regards,
Matthias

Original issue reported on code.google.com by matthias...@gmail.com on 11 Apr 2010 at 10:08

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issue confirmed.
it will be solved on the next release.

Original comment by mufl...@vbsimple.net on 17 Apr 2010 at 5:14

• Changed state: Accepted
• Added labels: Milestone-NextVersion

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I wanted to add exactly the same about the English language! Setting of 5, 
especially
with Mbrola, produces very artificial and unpleasant speech. 

Original comment by andrzej....@gmail.com on 31 May 2010 at 1:24

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Original comment by mufl...@vbsimple.net on 12 Jun 2010 at 12:09

• Changed state: Fixed