diff --git a/android/jni/jni/eSpeakService.c b/android/jni/jni/eSpeakService.c
index 02bd5bdd..285008df 100644
--- a/android/jni/jni/eSpeakService.c
+++ b/android/jni/jni/eSpeakService.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 #include <espeak/speak_lib.h>
 #include <Log.h>
 
-#define BUFFER_SIZE_IN_MILLISECONDS 1000
+#define BUFFER_SIZE_IN_MILLISECONDS 300
 
 /* These are helpers for converting a jstring to wchar_t*.
  *