An audio accelerator includes a decoder to decode first and second sets of data blocks, a processor to process the first and second sets of decoded data blocks, a storage area to store the first and second sets of processed data blocks, and a controller to generate interrupt signals for controlling operation of the decoder. The controller may control a rate at which data blocks are to be decoded by the decoder to reduce a time gap between outputting adjacent ones of the data blocks from the first and second sets in the storage area.