Mandarin auto-generate audio is terrible

[Oshikuru]

I used to use the auto-generate audio option in the past, and even though the voices were always too robotic and artificial, it was still usable.
But lately it is terrible, because whenever the audio is generated, the words have pauses in between them that make it even worse to listen to.
It didn’t use to be like this.
Will it be fixed in the future?

Something else on this topic: Will LingQ ever implement the newer synthetic voices on the market that sound more like human voices?

Thank you.

[vet8t6z79pc4]

You can use my extension script for realistic AI-TTS.

LingQ Web Extension (Customizable Layout, GPT, AI-TTS, or so)

LingQ Addon A userscript for Tampermonkey/GreaseMonkey that significantly enhances the LingQ language learning experience. It offers customizable layouts, appearance settings, vocabulary downloading tools, an AI-powered chat widget, AI-based TTS, and workflow improvements, all aimed at streamlining your study process. Reader Layout [image] Course Page [image] Features Customizable Layouts: Video layout: Displays the video below with the text above. Video 2 layout: Displays the video…

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This is a demo using the TTS. Much better than existing mechanical one:

Google's new TTS model is really great

Book reading test. It’s really good. I will use this to make an audio book for a book I read next. gemini 2.5 flash gemini 2.5 pro Script Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?” So she was considering in her own mind (as well as s…

[Oshikuru]

I’m excited to try. I’ll give it a day or two using it and I’ll tell you what I think about it

Thanks!

[Oshikuru]

How can I use your script/add-on to generate the audio for the lesson without having to copy the lesson to Gemini/Chat GPT Interface?

[vet8t6z79pc4]

https://aistudio.google.com/generate-speech

[Oshikuru]

Thanks!
I find your extension to be quite useful
Let me ask you for something that could be a life-saver for most of us (if only LingQ itself would implement it would be great both ways)

LingQ has an option to PRINT OUT a lesson.
Is it possible that you include the created LingQs for that lesson in a word list with some spaces to practice the word?

Even better, an option to have the full text + the text with blanks where the LingQs would be and then a word list so we can fill in the blanks?

Hope you like my idea and hope it’s not too difficult to code as well.

(fingers crossed)

[vet8t6z79pc4]

Getting the words in a lesson is quite easy. And coding will not take too much time. But I’m working on another project for now. If I have some time, I will add the feature to my add-on and let you know

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LingQ Web Extension (Customizable Layout, GPT, AI-TTS, or so)

v 5.12.2 Enhanced the prompts (make them more compact and desirable). Fixed the wrongly calculated input tokens of Gemini chat. Question to the user of the script Do the dictionary and translator functions work well with your language pairs? My setting is English-Korean (Input-Output). I have been modifying the prompts to make them work well with multi-language setups. And for now works well in my setting. Do they also work well with your pair (the output language is always displayed as you …