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Kommentar: Brauchen wir eine Anwesenheitspflicht?

A radio commentary weighing arguments for and against compulsory attendance at university and proposing a middle way.

C1Commentary: do we need compulsory attendance?1 min 15 s6 questions

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Vocabulary

GermanEnglish
die Anwesenheitspflichtcompulsory attendance
verbindlichbinding, compulsory
starrrigid
vereinbar mitcompatible with
zu kurz greifento fall short
pauschalblanket, across the board
unverzichtbarindispensable

Useful expressions

GermanEnglish
für Streit sorgento cause controversy
Meines Erachtens …In my view …
Sinnvoller wäre es, …It would make more sense to …

Grammar in this recording

Konjunktiv I for reporting positions

The commentator reports arguments neutrally with Konjunktiv I.

  • Befürworter argumentieren, Lernen sei ein sozialer Prozess.

nicht …, sondern …

Corrects a focus: what matters is not A but B.

  • Entscheidend ist nicht, ob eine Pflicht besteht, sondern ob sich die Teilnahme lohnt.

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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 8 % against the script on 9 October 2026. Some differences come from the small recognition model, not the audio.
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Version 1, updated 9 October 2026

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