The generate audio function would greatly benefit from following some basic punctuation cues. It seems to correctly insert slight pauses before the word “and” when appropriate but does not do so for punctuation such as commas, colons, and semi-colons. These items in the raw text should generate the same short pauses and would be easier to implement than the “and” pause because they are not dependent on context. Simply stated, if the punctuation is there in the text, add a short pause in the audio, the same way a human would. Right now, long sentences with several commas sound like a run-on sentence robot. 
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This seems to me to be a very useful improvement. I hope the developers of Lingq will do something about it.
We hope to bring improvements to generated audio in the near future. That’s in plans.
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This development would be incredibly welcome. I find the automated German voice particularly lacking, not even matching the quality of Google Translate’s. My strong preference would be for full AI-generated audio, but if that’s not feasible, then at least the standard of Google Translate’s voice should be the absolute minimum IMO.
in chinese this is a big issue. really annoying. will see what is coming… thanks
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