Systems and methods for utilizing incremental processing of portions of output data to limit the time required to provide a response to a user request are provided herein. In some embodiments, portions of the user request for information can be analyzed using techniques such as automatic speech recognition (ASR), speech-to-text (STT), and natural language understanding (NLU) to determine the overall topic of the user request. One the topic has been determined, portions of the anticipated audio output data can be synthesized independently instead of waiting for the complete response. The synthesized portions can then be provided to the electronic device in anticipation of being output through one or more speakers on the electronic device, which speeds up the time that the response can be provided to the user.