Heiban vs. Odaka?

Is it possible to distinguish Heiban and Odaka from Bunpro’s pitch accent graph? I can’t find any indication of how the particle should sound.
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Hi @jvelazquez4802! In our current pitch accent display, we don’t show whether a word is heiban or odaka. For now, you’ll need to listen to the audio in the example sentences. (The audio isn’t perfect yet and has some reading, intonation, or accent errors, though. We’re planning to use better software for the vocabulary sentences and also aim to add human voice recordings.)

As for いただきます, this is actually a nakadaka accent, and LHHHHL is the correct pattern. We’ve just fixed this error on our site. Sorry about that :bowing_woman: There may be still some errors in the pitch accents, and we’re currently reviewing and correcting the pitch accents for all vocabulary entries.

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