I use Lingq for two days now and I have some problems with some Japanese words.
Sometimes, on flashcards or when I select a word in a text, the linked audio is completely weird and wrong.
Sometimes, it reads each Kanji as if they were alone and not the word.
Last example I encountered: the word for friendly 友好的 (ゆうこうてき) was pronounced as ともよいてき (or something like that). It’s quite annoying for an app used to learn language to give the wrong sound for a word…
I suppose that is generated with AI but please, please, check the AI content.
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This also happens with the word “boku”. It consistently gets pronounced “watashi”. These are conceptually related words, but definitely completely different words. One example can be found here: 11 - 楽しい 旅行 に も たくさん 行ける し
I’d say the error here is the opposite. The audio is correct but the Kanji is wrong. 僕 is man speech, and the person speaking there is a woman. So it should be 私, I guess. It’s frustrating nevertheless.
It’s adviceable to use content created by natives, only. (There are tons of language podcasts on youtube, for example, often with japanese subtitles).
True enough! I wasn’t listening to the gender of the speaker, just noticing the word was mispronounced. Regardless, it is consistently mispronounced regardless of the speaker’s gender.