[larsiusprime]

Is it just me or does it seem to last a bit longer on every second play?

[mavelikara]

I think this is a Google Translate feature, and one of my favorite examples of "Do what I mean" UX. If you click again, for any word, it guesses that you didn't get the pronunciation the first time, so it speaks slowly. This is what humans would do too, in this situation.

[chippy]

what a marvelous bit of UX.

[fallinghawks]

Yes, the second one is slowed down to help you hear it better. It does this for all playback in Translate.

[yout2]

I think it does that for any translation term, I guess so that people can click again to hear it pronounced very clearly.

[sk0g]

Just tested with a few common languages, and it seems like the pronunciations alternate. Both sound silly in this case, but one much more so.