IALLT and Being Pro at Cooking

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Since officially launching we’ve been working on a myriad of small things. Nick fixed some audio playback bugs, Scott has been working to get our Paypal payment system up and working, and I’ve been producing …

Launch!

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It’s been 11 months since we started working full-time on the Skritter web app (after 9 months of my part-time development on the handwriting recognition), and launch is here. But we’ve had users learning with …

Vocab Lists: Take 4

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The vocabulary list page has had a long and storied life. First it was just a set of drop downs; you chose what lists you wanted to start with and that was pretty much it. …

Confusion Is A Mighty Foe

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Today George and I were graciously given some lab time with Oberlin students studying their first year of Chinese. We went and threw waves of them at our software to see what they could defeat …

New Vocab List Page Design

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Hey everyone, we just uploaded a new system for controlling your vocabulary lists. If you’re having trouble seeing it, try clearing your browser’s cache. There are no new features in this new design, but we’re …

More lists soon

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I’ve been collecting more textbook lists and am working on processing them, disambiguating their variant characters, adding missing words, and getting them online. In the next week or so, I’ll be uploading all of those, …

New sounds

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Thanks to the sinoknights over at ChinesePod, we now have a new set of Mandarin syllables. They sound great and are complete (except for neutral tones, which are hard to do in isolation, and erhua). …

Genius–almost

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The Genius is done and in final testing. I won’t upload it until the new front page goes up, possibly tomorrow or Saturday, but I’m excited so I’ll describe how awesome it’s going to be. …

Improved recognition

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I’ve just fixed most of the problem stroke recognizers. This includes tweaks to tone recognition, and you can draw a circle to do a neutral tone (or any shape that ends near where it starts, …