Delay in starting

The factors that cause delay are 1) my poor ADSL connection, thru which the servers are currently facing toward internet and which may easily reach a wealthy 1000ms latency on weekend evenings, and 2) the user selecting very long text blocks for synthesis.

The problem about ADSL is that the add-on relies completely on my budget, so for now we'll have to live with this 1-second delay, only due to connection.

About selecting long texts: the client performs some tokenization and language detection before sending the text to the server, and this causes additional delay if the text is particularly long. Selecting several thousand words all together may cause several seconds of delay. This is approx. 1 second per thousand words.

On the other side, when the server finally manages to receive the request from the client, it synthesizes the text pretty quickly, due to fast quad-core Xeons.

If the add-on manages to get some donations, I'll be able to move the servers to professional hosting and reduce latencies.

About poor quality voices: there are multiple voices for English, each of them is powered by a different engine, so quality and accuracy differs among them.