Listening · A2
Durchsagen am Bahnhof
Two station announcements about a delayed train, a changed platform and the opening hours of the travel centre.
A2Announcements at the station35 s6 questions
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Vocabulary
| German | English |
|---|---|
| das Gleis | platform, track |
| die Verspätung | delay |
| planmäßig | scheduled |
| die Störung | fault, disruption |
| die Abfahrt | departure |
| unverändert | unchanged |
| das Reisezentrum | travel centre (ticket office) |
Useful expressions
| German | English |
|---|---|
| Wir bitten um Entschuldigung. | We apologise. |
| Bitte beachten Sie … | Please note … |
Grammar in this recording
„nicht …, sondern …“
Use „sondern“ after a negation to give the correct information.
- Der Intercity fährt heute nicht von Gleis fünf, sondern von Gleis neun ab.
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 11 % against the script on 9 October 2026. Some differences come from the small recognition model, not the audio.
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- Version
- Version 1, updated 9 October 2026
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