Can you find a recording (not necessarily of someone saying “das kind”, but of any two words, the first ending and the second beginning with a consonant) where you can hear this glottal stop put in between? It should come from flowing speech, not the boundary of a clause or sentence where the speaker might insert an extra pause, of course. If you want to record yourself demonstrating it, that would be perfect but I appreciate you may not want to.
Ideally also a recording of as much of the same sequence of sounds without it, for comparison, but that’s less important :)
edit: realised I could give you an example myself. Here’s a recording from Wiktionary, a native speaker saying “aus Kindern werden Leute”. There is no glottal stop between any of the words.
And while finding that I realised there is a point from the other direction: in precise speech, there is a glottal stop in German compounds where the second part starts with a vowel sound. So Spiegelei is listed in the Duden as having a glottal stop before the “Ei”.
If you provide storage to upload four audio .wav files (each about 400 KiB), I can send you samples generated by me speaking, then cloned with w-okada using a generic voice I believe is freely usable. It’s far from perfect, but it’s good enough for me to clearly tell which is which just by listening.
I don’t know of anywhere suitable, sorry. Also if you are not comfortable sharing your own voice (which I perfectly understand, I also would not want to) I don’t think a voice changer is the way to go.
Maybe we will have to leave that thread here then - I also understand if you don’t want to go digging for examples. I would be interested to know still if you hear the glottal stops you’re talking about in the example above, though?
Generalising the Spiegelei example: in order to read a word in a language which writes its compounds without spaces, you need to be able to break words down into their compounds correctly. Just reading the letters, with no knowledge of vocabulary, “Gewinnspiel” could be analysed in at least two ways: “Gewinns·piel” or “Gewinn·spiel”. The “s” would be pronounced differently between the two analyses (respectively as a /z/ or a /ʃ/ following regular German pronunciation rules).
Can you find a recording (not necessarily of someone saying “das kind”, but of any two words, the first ending and the second beginning with a consonant) where you can hear this glottal stop put in between? It should come from flowing speech, not the boundary of a clause or sentence where the speaker might insert an extra pause, of course. If you want to record yourself demonstrating it, that would be perfect but I appreciate you may not want to.
Ideally also a recording of as much of the same sequence of sounds without it, for comparison, but that’s less important :)
edit: realised I could give you an example myself. Here’s a recording from Wiktionary, a native speaker saying “aus Kindern werden Leute”. There is no glottal stop between any of the words.
And while finding that I realised there is a point from the other direction: in precise speech, there is a glottal stop in German compounds where the second part starts with a vowel sound. So Spiegelei is listed in the Duden as having a glottal stop before the “Ei”.
If you provide storage to upload four audio .wav files (each about 400 KiB), I can send you samples generated by me speaking, then cloned with w-okada using a generic voice I believe is freely usable. It’s far from perfect, but it’s good enough for me to clearly tell which is which just by listening.
I don’t know of anywhere suitable, sorry. Also if you are not comfortable sharing your own voice (which I perfectly understand, I also would not want to) I don’t think a voice changer is the way to go.
Maybe we will have to leave that thread here then - I also understand if you don’t want to go digging for examples. I would be interested to know still if you hear the glottal stops you’re talking about in the example above, though?
Generalising the Spiegelei example: in order to read a word in a language which writes its compounds without spaces, you need to be able to break words down into their compounds correctly. Just reading the letters, with no knowledge of vocabulary, “Gewinnspiel” could be analysed in at least two ways: “Gewinns·piel” or “Gewinn·spiel”. The “s” would be pronounced differently between the two analyses (respectively as a /z/ or a /ʃ/ following regular German pronunciation rules).
Fun stuff!