Duolingo voices

[Deleted User 114]

Just a random thought…

I remember being on the late Duolingo forum, and seeing so many posts about how horrible and annoying the Duolingo voices were.

My Arabic course didn’t have the normal Duolingo voices, they used other voices for that course, so I didn’t know how the supposedly annoying voices sounded.

I now recently started the reverse course, so the English from Arabic course. The reverse course has the normal Duolingo voices, and guess what…I don’t care for them.

So here I am, making a post about how I find the Duolingo voices irritating.

[LICA98]

I usually listen to music anyway when I'm doing the course so I have them disabled

[Deleted User 114]

I usually listen to music anyway when I'm doing the course so I have them disabled

I might try that, I love listening to music.

[Thomas.Heiss]

I noticed that the new comic character voices, now also introduced to the Pt-Br course, contain several wrong pronunciation rules which were not noticeable before with the old Pt voices.

Sometimes vowels are not spoken, or end consonants are getting dropped and it seems the rules engine often thinks it needs to apply any French rules while actually this is the Brazilian Portuguese course where those consonants dropping or Liaisons things don't exist, not to my knowledge.

[Deleted User 114]

I noticed that the new comic character voices, now also introduced to the Pt-Br course, contain several wrong pronunciation rules which were not noticeable before with the old Pt voices.

Sometimes vowels are not spoken, or end consonants are getting dropped and it seems the rules engine often thinks it needs to apply any French rules while actually this is the Brazilian Portuguese course where those consonants dropping or Liaisons things don't exist, not to my knowledge.

That is interesting, but I’m sure also misleading to new learners of a language.

[Thomas.Heiss]

Yeah, a bit contraproductive.
I've written a lot of free typing reports on the Android app explaining the issues.

Have been begging for a Pt-Br pronunciation course since the last year or the year before.

Thankfully the comic character voices aren't any bad in the Brazilian Portuguese version.

Having to hear overpronounced / slowed down (Lily) English or German comic voices just annoy me much more.

I still have some hope that staff can fix the Pt-Br pronunciation rules. A minor issue, but a bit irritating sometimes, even for me as a six years long-term learner.