Hey guys, wanted to give the heads up on the new audio – looking forward to feedback about it
Sentence Audio
We went through and added audio for all of the sentences.
You’ll see an audio symbol next to it which you can click to hear.
Of course, this will also be seen in the Lessons, or under the Info Panel in Reviews:
You can set your voice preference for the sentences in your settings:
We plan to roll out new text-to-speech audio options for the application itself in the near future as we continue to evaluate the best TTS options out there that can fit our rather unique needs.
Respect Character Unlocking
When we rolled out the new lessons flow, we previously didn’t respect the character unlocking preferences.
We now do: when you decide to learn a character that has prerequisites, the character will be delayed until you are familiar with those prerequisites:
Block the “other character” as an answer for words
Some words in HanziHero inherit one of the meanings ascribed to the characters within it. For example, č¨ç˝® set up
which has the characters č¨ establish
and ç˝® set up
within it.
It can be frustrating to know both the characters but you aren’t precisely sure what the meaning is, and the alternate meanings haven’t covered it.
So, if you try to input the “other character meaning” in these cases, it’ll be blocked:
Extra Study small changes
The previous Extra Study date ranges were inconsistent for both Recent Mistakes & Recently Learned.
We’ve since changed this to always look at the last three days, inclusive.
The docs have been reflected to show this.
Word Skip Preferences
We added an additional setting which (by default) skips over words which contain only skipped characters.
This makes it so every word you’re learning is linked to a character you’re learning – this especially helps in the case of those who decided to take advantage of the HSK skipping.
Turn off Lessons
If you find yourself with too many reviews, and yet the Lessons button is taunting you to do more, I’ve since added an option for “None” – giving you the satisfactory greyed out Lessons while you can focus on getting your Reviews down
That’s it for now! We have a lot of interesting suggestions to work through in the backlog. As always, thanks for your support and feedback, HanziHero wouldn’t be where it is today without you
Happy studying!