Tulip Talk 1.2.1: practice that recovers, and honest about pronunciation
By Tulip Talk Team ·
This release is mostly about things you should never have noticed: exercises that hung, or answers that got lost, now behave. Talk is also now available in Ukrainian and Arabic.
The placement test recovers from a failure
If the next question did not load, you used to be left on a screen that did nothing. Now you can simply try again, and the answers you did get through are still there.
The difference between the possible causes is clearer too. If you need to sign in again, that is what it says. Waiting is a different situation from running out of AI credit, and that is now visible too. Previously a misleading error message could sit above the question, making it look as though your answer was wrong.
Reading practice no longer hangs
Saving a reading exercise had a time limit. On a slow connection the screen could therefore sit waiting without anything happening. That now has its own deadline, and separately, an exercise is no longer counted twice if saving is attempted more than once.
The pronunciation scores are now honest
The pronunciation studio showed numbers with no explanation. Automatic pronunciation scoring is not switched on yet, so those numbers were sample values. It now says so, in the studio, in your history, and in the message after you save a result. In other words, the scores are what the studio displays, not a measurement of your recording.
The Android app now follows the app's theme
The bar at the top and bottom of the Android app did not follow the colour of the screen you were on, so the app could look out of place in a light theme. The bars now take on the app's theme.
Talk is now in Ukrainian and Arabic
Talk's buttons and menus now exist in Ukrainian and Arabic. Arabic runs right to left, and the layout follows it. For anyone learning in Arabic it helps when the interface reads in the same direction as the text.
The pronunciation studio and its history are translated as well.
The upgrade screen has been rebuilt
In the Android and iOS app, the screen where you can take out a subscription has been rebuilt. It now shows the four ways to carry on in one place: Plus, Pro, a pack, or using your own AI key. The wording now differs per situation, so it says what is actually going on rather than showing one generic screen.
The blog has a language switcher
Every post on the blog now has a language switcher at the top, and translated versions are linked to each other. If a post is not yet in your language, the Dutch version stays available.
What is not on every device straight away
Android and iOS updates reach your device through Google Play and the App Store review. An already-installed build may therefore still show the previous version until it updates. In a browser everything is available immediately.
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