Issues with Chinese on LingQ

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大家好, for sure these issues have been addressed somewhere. Maybe you can answer here or direct me to the appropriate discussion.

  1. a Hanzi has several pronunciations depending on the usage. An example is 着 which can be zhe5, zhao1, zhao2 or zhuo2. In the LingQ Pinyin transcription, it only has “zhao1”, although the audio is saying it correctly. I guess, there is no chance to have it correct in the transcript as well, is this correct?
  2. Same goes for 女, which is nü3 but is transcribed with ru3. Yes, that is another reading of this Hanzi, but mostly it is nü3, isn’t it?
    Is there a forum where we can propose improvements of LingQ or give hints to mistakes?
    从德国问候.
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不同读音对应的意思不同，根据语境读音。
有时仅仅是习惯读法

对于你的第二个例子，请问你看的是古汉语吗？女读成ru3,是“你”(you)的意思，等于“汝”
读成nU3 是“雌性”(female)的意思。
在现代汉语中不常见读成 ru3这种用法

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Hello,
I am not learning old Chinese here, just nowadays Mandarin. The transcription of 女 is shown as ru3 nevertheless, so I guess it is a transcription mistake.

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one of the most annoying issues indeed.
Also it is time for lingq to improve TTS (text to speech accurate voices). most of the time i have to use chatgpt to avoid lingq chinese robotic voices. It has passed a long time. I think LINGQ should consider good TTS not to be so dependant on videos and expand to a variety of written documents

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I came here to ask this exact question (#1) and was glad to find this thread.

Has anyone figured out a workaround for this? It is a real issue with using LingQ to learn Chinese.

Thanks!

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