diff --git a/src/rspeech/gcloud.py b/src/rspeech/gcloud.py
index 6f1b453..34848b1 100644
--- a/src/rspeech/gcloud.py
+++ b/src/rspeech/gcloud.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ from rspeech.play import play_audio
 import google.oauth2.credentials
 import uuid
 import pathlib
-from rspeech.play import play_audio
+from rspeech.play import play_audio_async
 
 # Chars to be ignored in speech
 IGNORE_CHARS = ["*", "#", "`","'",'"',"\\","/","---"]
@@ -104,7 +104,8 @@ async def tts(text:str ,google_project:str="lisa-448004", language_code:str="nl-
         file = pathlib.Path(str(uuid.uuid4()) + ".mp3")
         with file.open("wb") as audio_file:
             audio_file.write(base64.b64decode(audio_content.encode('latin1')))
-        play_audio(file)
+        async for tik in play_audio(file)
+            await asyncio.sleep(0.1)
         file.unlink()
         return
 
diff --git a/src/rspeech/play.py b/src/rspeech/play.py
index 8d75518..42eae76 100644
--- a/src/rspeech/play.py
+++ b/src/rspeech/play.py
@@ -30,16 +30,18 @@ import os
 import subprocess
 import sys
 import pygame 
-
+import time 
 
 
 async def play_audio_async(filename)
     pygame.mixer.init()
     pygame.mixer.music.load(filename)
+    time_start = time.time()
     pygame.mixer.music.play()
+    
     while pygame.mixer.music.get_busy():
-        await asyncio.sleep(0.1)
-        yield
+        duration = time.time() - time_start 
+        yield duration 
 
 
 def play_audio(filename):