From 40c8603c16e72c82dde7343eede7bf95e9678ecc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:34:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] E-book viewer: Fix using the slower/faster buttons causing a
 chapter skip when using the Piper neural speech backend

Fixes #3050
---
 src/calibre/gui2/tts/manager.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/tts/manager.py b/src/calibre/gui2/tts/manager.py
index 2063aedcd4..7a8d579d6a 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/tts/manager.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/tts/manager.py
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ class TTSManager(QObject):
                 self.emit_state_event('begin')
         elif state is QTextToSpeech.State.Ready:
             if prev_state is QTextToSpeech.State.Speaking:
-                if not self.speaking_simple_text:
+                if not self.speaking_simple_text and not self._resuming_after_configure:
                     if self.tracker.pop_first() and (text := self.tracker.current_text()):
                         self.tts.say(text)
                     else: