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). [see below for a fuller description]
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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. 
Hi Everyone,
thanks @georgewhoyt 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.
Thanks. Do you mind if I have someone from our team reach out about this to learn more about what you’ve done?
Of course. I really hope LingQ’s improvement.
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About Editing Sentences
When editing a sentence while an unknown word (highlighted in blue) is selected, the display may not update correctly.
Also, when editing from Sentence Mode, the content is reprocessed after editing. However, this reprocessing does not occur in Full Editing Mode, which may result in display issues. In such cases, reloading the page usually restores the correct view, so the problem likely lies not in the saving process, but in the rendering process.
Additionally, when reading in Page Mode, it’s troublesome to locate the part you were just reading in the editing view. For this reason, I usually switch to Sentence Mode before making edits. Would it be possible to simplify this workflow?
Furthermore, sometimes an unknown word gets automatically marked as known after it disappears from the text due to editing. This is undesirable, as the word no longer exists in the content and therefore cannot be reverted manually.
I usually edit sentences in order to correct mistakes caused by automatic processing. Specifically, I want to fix unknown (blue) words that result from spelling errors or incorrect spacing, without marking them as known or ignored. By correcting them into their proper form, I want to turn them into valid LingQs. This process often involves checking whether a blue word is a legitimate unknown word or just an incorrect one. To do that, I sometimes click on it to confirm its meaning before editing.
If they fixed existing bugs so that the app worked, that would be enough. And stop breaking existing features. And stop adding annoying features such as dialogs that pop up for each new import. Now I have to click on and clear each of these horrible pointless dialogs. Today I dad to close and restart the app every five minutes to get it to work. Clicking on a word in line mode to display the dictionary definitions stopped working. Also in line mode, clicking on the play button stopped working.
@LeifGoodwin Are you on the iOS or Android app?
I use iOS. (Required padding.)
@LeifGoodwin Thanks, we will have it fixed.
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If you could allow us to use the built-in TTS from our devices, that would already be a serious improvement compared to the awful voices we are dealing with now.
I hope this will include a scrolling mode and the ability to import EPUB files as they are complete with pictures and table of contents without this ridiculous word limit. Other tools do it, surely Lingq can?
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It seems to have been fixed some while back, so excellent, thanks.
Thanks for the overview of planned features. A conversational chat bot would be great.
Thanks a lot for this. I’ll try it out in the coming days.