Paying native Chinese to read & record texts

[Jan Finster]

On 1/29/2022 at 3:57 PM, Flickserve said:

Can find community tutors who are doctors. I have seen three.

 

Awesome. Doctors are even better for the medical language. P.M me when you find any

[alantin]

On 1/29/2022 at 12:56 PM, Jan Finster said:

He managed to record 3700 characters and the total duration was around 24 minutes (on a 1 hour paid session).

 

How long is the recording?
I hear the CCTV news should be read at around 240-260 cpm but I haven't verified this.

Edited January 29, 2022 at 06:00 PM by alantin

[Jan Finster]

On 1/29/2022 at 6:39 PM, alantin said:

On 1/29/2022 at 11:56 AM, Jan Finster said:

He managed to record 3700 characters and the total duration was around 24 minutes (on a 1 hour paid session).

 

How long is the recording?

 

What do you mean, how long? 3700 characters, 24 minutes broken into 9 parts of 2-3 minutes. I paid for 1 hour. He said he had to re-record some sections, because he made mistakes with uncommon words, which is totally believable. The speed is about CCTV 4 news anchor speed.

[alantin]

On 1/29/2022 at 8:14 PM, Jan Finster said:

What do you mean, how long? 3700 characters, 24 minutes broken into 9 parts of 2-3 minutes. I paid for 1 hour. He said he had to re-record some sections, because he made mistakes with uncommon words, which is totally believable. The speed is about CCTV 4 news anchor speed.

 

Ok, I think I misunderstood this before.. 3700 character read in 24 minutes would mean 154 cpm reading speed, which is quite a lot lower than 250cpm which I thought was the news anchor speed.

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@Jan Finster -- This isn't really what you are looking for, but your request for a clip using medical vocabulary brought it to mind. It is part of the "Typical Day in the Life" series that I like so much for realistic language practice. The interviewer, 纯纯甘，tags along throughout one representative day, shoots video, asks intelligent questions and doesn't cut off the responses into tiny "sound bites" like some other hosts do. 

 

This one features a smart young Chinese plastic surgeon 整形医生 who trained in the U.S. and now practices in Beijing. Not only is there a light sprinkling of medical terms, but the general level of vocabulary, its variety and its precision, is quite a bit more sophisticated than one often finds. The series seems to be made mainly for native audiences, though this particular segment also has English subs. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgOG1kFg1-8 

[Jan Finster]

Just an update:

 

My Italki tutor recorded the text (16833 characters) over 4 hours (each around 11 €, 13$= total 44€ or 52$).

Total recording time is 1 hour 35 minutes

Averge speed: 177 CPM

 

Considering that it is a medical text, which may be quite hard for a non-medic, I am very happy with the results. The speed is slow enough for me to get familiar with the vocabulary. In terms of recording quality, it is at least as good as TCB recordings, probably better.