I have been learning German on memrise for the last few months using my own course. Everytime I add a word default audio is added. Often it is fine but there are two female voices that say the words as if they are questions. Der waaaald??? schinkeeeeen??? ankommeeeeeen??? Does anyone else find this so extremely annoying they feel like tracking down that woman and shaking her violently saying “yes!!! That is the correct answer!!! Youre supposed to be telling me!!!” or is it just me?
I have complaint about this to the support team multiple time without reply.
When you create your course, Memrise database suggests to you words already in its catalog. Some of them have the audio associated to them.
That audio sound is not satisfactory.
Is that what you mean? You can replace the audio with your own, as a solution.
Thank you for your replies. Yes Sircemloud… it is the default ones with words in the catalog. Maybe 75% of the words I enter has that particular woman pronouncing the word incorrectly. I know I can delete them and add my own (I use forvo.com) but sometimes I forget to delete her audio. Surely it is something that memrise should correct? It is like me making a list for English with “had” and recording myself saying “hayed” and then that being the default for every list created with the word “had” in it. It seems like a huge error.
@atrag: the fact that that woman is shouuuuuuuuting or someeeeeething - there is sth similar in the Whately’s Mandarin - _does not mean that her pronunciation is wrong. How do you know the correct manner? The audio files are uploaded by course creators themselveeeeees, theeeeere is noooooothing meeeeeemrise shouuld doooo. There are no “default” files.
try the audios from duden.de or dict.leo.org. Forvo has sometimes horrible stuff.
Of course it is incorrect. The pronouncation of ankommen is with intonation on the an - ANkommen… she pronounces it as ankommEN which is the incorrect intonation unless it is a question. It is wrong.
Well, I had to explain to you where it falls if you think ankommEN? doesn´t cause problems to learning. But yes, everytime I add a word I can search the 4 or 5 pronunciations for the one that is incorrect. I am so tempted to a make a few lists with “the” and “cat” in it and record myself saying “flompadonkadink!” so that people realise the problem it causes.
I don’t know if leo would like that, but if it does, click in your browser look for “Seiteninformationen”/“Medien” (my browser speaks German, sorry)
http://mary.dfki.de/ this has artificial voices, but quite of a choice of them, it is legal to download their audio clips, you just have to save them as mp3 and not ogg or something. Otherwise, forvo.
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