I suppose it could be buffered, and used to only shorten the wait in cases with long responses, rather than aiming for perfect and push out words as they come. Besides, GPTs sound like translators anyway.

I mean.. 99% of the current TTS engines wouldn't know timing and emphasis if it hit them.

Besides humans do this all the time, we start saying words before we even have, uhh, any idea how we're gonna end the sentence and for the most part it, uhh, works out. Should be doable.

Also there's a big difference between waiting for a buffer of outputs and waiting for all the outputs.

The difference is that if you are the one saying the sentence, you at least have some idea where it's going. Receiving one word at a time from a different source isn't the same.

> you at least have some idea where it's going

Unless you're Michael Scott.