[Bug] Audio for lessons imported from YouTube now computer generated, was better before

Hi,

I’m not 100% sure but think a detail is now worse than it used to be: the audio I’m getting when I’m hitting the “play audio” button for a lesson imported from youtube, is now the computer generated voice reading the text extracted from the subtitles on youtube.

But if I’m not wrong, in the past, I heard the original sound taken from the YouTube video.

I’ve seen that as well in the app on iOS, as in the web version - not always, but non deterministically on some videos, on others not.

Please let me know if I can help to identify the bug by giving you more detail.

Cheers,
Celine

Yes, original video audio should be imported. Do you have that issue for any video you import? What browser/extension are you using?

I’m using Firefox as a browser and the Linq importer 2.2.6 (it just updated today). To check if it’s still an issue, I’ve deleted two lessons with that problem, and re-imported them. It’s now fine for both on the PC, and also when I’m opening them on my smartphone.

So, I think I’ll delete and re-import lessons with that problem, if I want to repeat them. I guess the issue was due to an absolete version of the extension.

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It could have also been this bug.

When the LingQ Importer doesn’t create the audios, then when you hit ‘play audio’, it asks you to generate a TTS audio.

For instance, I imported 15 YouTube videos to a course last week and two of the lessons didn’t correctly import the audio. On both of these lessons, it was asking me to generate a TTS audio. In my experience, if you really want the audio, the only way around it is to delete the lesson(s) and reimport them.