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Ein Zimmer in der Lindenstraße
Emre calls a landlady about a room advertisement and arranges a viewing.
A2A room on Lindenstraße55 s6 questions
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Vocabulary
| German | English |
|---|---|
| die Anzeige | advertisement |
| möbliert | furnished |
| die Warmmiete | rent including heating |
| die Kaution | deposit |
| ansehen | to view, to look at |
| das Erdgeschoss | ground floor |
| der Quadratmeter | square metre |
Useful expressions
| German | English |
|---|---|
| Ich rufe wegen Ihrer Anzeige an. | I'm calling about your advertisement. |
| Passt Ihnen Donnerstag? | Does Thursday suit you? |
Grammar in this recording
„warm“ and „kalt“ rent
„Warmmiete“ includes heating (and often water); „Kaltmiete“ does not. Always ask what is included.
- Die Miete beträgt vierhundertzwanzig Euro warm, also mit Heizung und Wasser.
Polite request in Konjunktiv II
„könnte“ makes a request more polite.
- Wann könnte ich das Zimmer ansehen?
About this recording
- Script
- German Prep editorial team. Original German Prep script. © German Prep. All rights reserved.
- Speech synthesis
- Piper TTS 1.8.0 (piper-tts, OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl) — GPL-3.0-or-later (licence of the synthesis software)
- Voice „thorsten“
- Model de_DE-thorsten-medium (MIT (rhasspy/piper-voices)), trained on Thorsten-Voice (CC0 1.0). Model card (opens in a new tab)
- Voice „kerstin“
- Model de_DE-kerstin-low (MIT (rhasspy/piper-voices)), trained on dataset-voice-kerstin (CC0 1.0). Model card (opens in a new tab)
- Automatic check
- Vosk (offline speech recognition), model vosk-model-small-de-0.15 (Apache-2.0): word error rate 13 % against the script on 9 October 2026. Some differences come from the small recognition model, not the audio.
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- Not yet reviewed by a human editor.
- Version
- Version 1, updated 9 October 2026
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