Exactly, that's why I am gathering stats and reporting this issue.

I'm having the same problem. The words are either jittered or played so quickly that they blur together. It's getting really frustrating

@Lepora - Remember this is a closed Beta, these are the kind of issues we can expect.

@steinman17 - I know, I submitted some feedback. I do hope it's fixed eventually, though.

I'm having a similar issue. I chose to deactivate the microphone portions and since then I have no audio at all. :(

I think a good idea to remedy this would be to have native speakers submit recordings of the lessons, since Duolingo is all about crowd sourcing. They could implement a similar system that dict.cc has. The user could get some kind of points or achievements for doing this.