No audio on first word of session

For a while now (one, two months?) I no longer get audio for the first word in a review or new learning session. Clicking on the speaker icon also fails to play the audio. However, after the first word the audio is fine. The problem is in both Chrome and Safari. What’s behind this?

It would be helpful to know what courses you are doing. Can you post links to them?

I am on Italian 2 and I have this happen to me from time to time on Android.

Try waiting a minute. There’s oftentimes a delay in downloading the audio.

The courses are:

Duolingo Spanish Vocabulary

First 5000 Words of Spanish

Learn French Conjugation

Learn Spanish Conjugation

I don’t mind waiting a couple of seconds. But beyond that something is wrong. Especially when it is a persistent problem across several courses. Wait a whole minute? Somehow, I don’t think so…