Yup. I have just diagnosed this as well on Cosmic. Suddenly, it started while I was watching film on Netflix in browser. I looked around and noticed three new speech-dispatcher processes connected to pulseaudio. I kept the film running and issued `killall speech-dispatcher` and the distortion stopped immediately.
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