I’ve pushed a longshot. For mimic and mimic2 the tts thread will now sleep until the audio has played. It’s unlikely to be the solution since it wouldn’t affect gtts.
If anyone is able to test if it makes any difference run
git fetch
git checkout bugfix/aiy-cutoff
And then restart mycroft.
thanks for the tip, just tried it, but I have problems with “read timed out” to api.mycroft.ai, could have been there already
on holidays from tomorrow, will check again later
The read timeouts are unrelated (Ongoing backend issue). Thanks for trying!
The read time outs should be resolved. I’ve updated the branch slightly so do a git pull next time you try.
The Picroft updated to 19.02.3. Should that be enough to get the updated code?
No change on the aiy-cutoff attempt.
Thanks wiggins. Back to the drawing board I guess.
Running 19.2.12 freshly updated from the stable image and still seeing the same thing (AIY hat build).
@forslund: I made a interesting observation today on my Picroft with AIY voice kit:
When - again - Mycroft aborted speaking I pressed the LED-button on top and suddenly Mycroft continued to speak the whole text (for several minutes as it was a very long text).
I’ve been trying to look at the aiy-skill to see what that could mean but I see no real reason here. A short press should send the mycroft.stop signal, which should abort the speech by killing the aplay process… So this is definitely weird.
Do the setup for tha aiy voice kit use aplay or paplay for audio playback?
playback: it is aplay (in /etc/mycroft/mycroft.conf)
I am just wild guessing here: maybe audio output of the AIY-voice-hat gets muted for some reason and pressing the button un-mutes it again?
You’re probably right about the mute but what is causing it?
Btw @steve.penrod pushed a new unstable image this morning, it might be worth a shot to see how well that image is working.
Talked with Steve today and he actually added a google aiy specific fix for chopped audio: https://github.com/MycroftAI/enclosure-picroft/blob/stretch/home/pi/auto_run.sh#L328
Would be great to have some feedback on this.
commented out load-module module-suspend-on-idle in `/etc/pulse/default.pa´
…Woo-hoo - wikipedia star wars followed by continue - Picroft talks and talks and talks…
Thanks.
Confirmed fixed here, too. Just to be clear, you have to make the change mentioned by @Dominik.
When I followed the link from @forslund and then the link on that page (See:) The last line in the thread says
This should be fixed on the latest SD card image.
I thought that meant it would be fixed in the image on the Picroft GitHub page (Picroft Stable 2019-07-10 image) but was wrong.
Yes! This worked for me! I had to upvote in some way 
N00b here, downloaded and used the .zipped image hosted by Mycroft on Google Drive, linked from that Github page, and am experiencing this same problem.
Is it Picroft Stable 2019-11-10 image you downloaded?
The old coments mentions older version of the Picroft image, and as far as I can tell it is fixed in the latest. 2019-11-10
Yes, I downloaded and installed it last week.
Hmmm I did to and it is working for me.
But I always firat exiting the auto_run script and perform
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
to make sure everything is updated. And then reboot and walk throu the setup.
Is it only sound that are missing ? Can you see mycrofts speach in the mycroft-cli-client ?