artifacts (white noise like) at the beginning of utterance

[wis]

I'm running the Mimic cli (version: mimic-1.2.0.2) from a terminal emulator (st) on arch linux

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mimic --setf duration_stretch=0.35 int_f0_target_mean=250 -pw -t ""

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it happens once in a short while, i'd say once every 20. it's not deterministic, if you rerun the same command after, it works fine. cutting out the first few words/syllables happens as often.
I can't reproduce with the -o option.

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can't reproduce with -o option. to post audio file here.
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[tsengia]

I can confirm this, I have been running around trying to figure out if it's a PulseAudio or ALSA problem. My mimic build is using ALSA, Sometimes I get the "white noise" at the beginning of a normal utterance (no duration changes or special settings, just mimic -t "hello world"). The frequency of occurrence matches too, I would agree, around 1 in 20.

Interesting that produced audio doesn't have this problem, so probably something in the play back.

I don't think this is the fault of Pulse Audio or ALSA, I even tried this.