I have the same problem on a Lenovo Thinkpad T420. Since upgrading from 12.04 to 14.04 the volume keys - in my case dedicated keys - responds with a huge (several seconds) delay. This is not always the case. It looks like the process handling those events gets blocked somehow.
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