# Delay between repeats in sound player

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/delay-between-repeats-in-sound-player/49551>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 4, 2021, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/delay-between-repeats-in-sound-player/49551 "2021-08-04T08:27:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![jjguillenes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jjguillenes](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jjguillenes)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/delay-between-repeats-in-sound-player/49551/1 "2021-08-04T08:27:57Z")

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hello! @paul-griffith is there a way to add a delay between reproductions of the voice message?

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2021, 1:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/delay-between-repeats-in-sound-player/49551/2 "2021-08-04T13:55:17Z")

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Not easily built in to the component.  
A few ideas come to mind:

1. You could simply ‘pad’ your audio clip with silence at the end with an audio editor.
2. You could set the sound player to ‘ON\_TRIGGER’ and use a Signal Generator component to make a square wave with the appropriate duration.

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**Author:** ![jjguillenes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jjguillenes](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jjguillenes)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/delay-between-repeats-in-sound-player/49551/3 "2021-08-05T11:29:34Z")

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Thanks for the suggestions,  
I did that with a timer and almost worked but if the trigger keeps up then it turns into a forever repeat and ts not repeated only the first time. will try using the signal generator . thanks for the helo.