People have mentioned this briefly in the “New German Voice” thread, but I can’t stress enough how unhelpful the new Chinese voice is, especially when reviewing single words. The consonants are often slurred and the emotive intonation added to the voice makes it harder to recognize the underlying tonal pattern, and sometimes particles are added that weren’t actually part of the original vocabulary item (and are thus counted as mistakes when you transcribe them). Theoretically this might be good practice for making out complete sentences with more natural diction, but for context-free single words the listening exercises turn into a mix of guesswork and arbitrary memorization instead of actual listening comprehension.
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Thanks, I believe we are already looking into improving this, but I asked our team to check again.
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