German TTS pronunciation issue: "im" mispronounced as "I'm" / "ai"

[Weltraumnavigatorneo]

Context / Area: XiaoZhi Cloud Service / German Female Voice
Issue: The German TTS engine occasionally mispronounces the German word "im" as the English "I'm" / "ai". This seems to happen when "im" is followed by a word starting with a vowel:

• Expected: "...im Umfeld" -> pronounced as short German [ɪm]
• Actual: "...im Umfeld" -> pronounced as [aɪm] / "ai Umfeld"

Workaround for users:
You can fix this in your Agent's System Prompt on xiaozhi.me/console/agents by instructing the LLM to write "in dem" instead of "im" when preceding vowels.

Posting this here so the cloud team can eventually tune the phonetic rules for the German voice model.

[jun588]

Thank you for your feedback and suggestions. We will be optimizing and upgrading the service in the near future. Once the new version is live, we would like to invite you to try it out and share any valuable feedback you may have.

[jun588]

We've added 6 new German voices, which are currently in internal testing. Feel free to try them out and see how they sound.