Does the LingQ team have a roadmap plan for this year?

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I think the last update is the “AI-featured meaning” one took place last year. Is the LingQ team preparing a new feature, or just proceeding with maintaining work? If you can share about that, please let me know! thanks.

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We do have new features in the plans. I won’t share them here for now, but there will be some updates soon.

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Please prioritise changes people want and don’t make anything worse.
As always, I’d like reading sentences to work better (one key and a shortcut to go to the next sentence; audio; and the translation).

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I second this. Also if we could get inline sentence editing / time stamping as the audio goes, that would be awesome for producing learning material.

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I feel like the whole UI needs an update. I can’t see my progress on the landing page or where I left things off. There are so many videos that keep coming up even though I finished a month ago. The usability is a big issue and the fact that not much is being updated makes me feel like the app is not progressing and falling behind. I wish there was more visibility to create trust from the founders and assurance that they are working on these updates. I hope they are aware of the problems in general.

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Hey @mark just wanted you to see this thread. We all are rooting hard for LingQ to continue to do well. :smiley:

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Hi Everyone,

thanks @George for directing me here. First of all, you should assume that we are always working at improving our app. We are users too and want it to be the best it can be.

Amongst the major features planned for this year are:

  • An AI conversational chat bot
  • Additional AI word and phrase information
  • TTS voice optimization. Can we find cost effective and good AI voices?
  • Update UX on web and mobile
  • Improved recommendation engine for new content
  • Optimized web reader

Some of these are bigger projects than others but there are big changes coming as you can see. Regarding some of the requests above, I’m not necessarily clear what is being asked for:

  • “one key and a shortcut to go to the next sentence” -
    There is a keyboard shortcut to go from sentence to sentence already. Is that what you mean? Along with a shortcut to play audio and view the translation. You can see the full list of shortcuts in the Quick Start guide linked in the lesson menu.
  • Inline sentence editing is just not that easy I’m afraid.
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  • An AI conversational chat bot
  • TTS voice optimization. Can we find cost effective and good AI voices?

I implemented these two features for my script.

You can use the source code or logic of my script. (Especially prompt. The prompt engineering cut into my lifespan :o)

“AI conversational chat bot” works quite well. Since new models of OpenAI and Google provide prompt caching, the cost is quite affordable.

However, AI(realistic) TTS’s are still expensive. OpenAI’s one is the cheapest one ($0.015 per minute, $0.9 per hour) among them, but the cost will be much higher than the traditional TTS LingQ is using.

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Thanks. Do you mind if I have someone from our team reach out about this to learn more about what you’ve done?

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Of course. I really hope LingQ’s improvement.