Gemini Flash TTS speed? hows your experience?

Im a longtime eleven labs user who was using their super turbo fastest tts or whatever
was super excited to switch my project to google tts due to the cost savings since elevenlabs was eating me alive.

But i notice documentation is kinda slim, i implemented streaming and such…but looking for best practices. Right now the startup talk of the first sentence lags elevenlabs by maybe 2 seconds which is fine

but during the streaming while its talking it will sometimes i guess…pause at the end of a couple sentences as if it ran ahead of its buffer

since theres so much realtime gemini voice out there i figure maybe theres some tips/tricks to get the best out of the latency