The way ‘Regenerate Lesson’ works has changed. It was of great use to me the way it was, as it gave me an efficient way to edit the rubbish that the Lingq import often produces. Now, it is of virtually no use. Windows/chrome. Lingq version 6.2.5.
Can you specify what changed? 
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It doesn’t work at all for me. It’s like it just saves the same lesson again without going back to the text box.
I reported it to support, but they said it worked fine for them and asked me to make a screen video of it happening. I haven’t spent the time yet on it.
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I just tried it now. I imported a video from you tube. I do often regenerate lessons myself (Easy German videos where I get the transcript ).
Typically in the Edit Lesson section you can click “Regenerate Lesson”. Normally this makes the text a big text “field” that is completely edible. I delete what’s there and then I paste the transcript in. Save (or it may save on its own). Then regenerate timestamps (if I upload the audio separate).
Now, when I click “regenerate lesson” it says “Your learning content is being generated” and then it just goes back to the normal “Edit Lesson format”. Not editable text field like before.
I also noticed a “Regenerate Lesson (AI)” option in the reading view 3 dot menu. What is that for? It does the same behavior as above.
In short, Regenerate Lesson in the “edit lesson” section is no longer doing what it has been for in the past. And now there’s this new Regenerate Lesson (AI) option in the reader view which doesn’t say what it’s doing. It seems both are the same thing now and that we’ve lost the ability (currently) to actually mass edit the lesson.
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@ericb100 @Mycroft The “Regenerate Lesson” feature has been changed recently (with updated functionality) — it now regenerates the lesson translation, word translations within the lesson, and also fixes bad splitting. I understand that your main concern is the ability to edit the complete text. I’ll check with our team what we can do here.
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Weird. So bad translations and (some kind of) bad splitting has been taking place unbeknownst to us - so the option of editing our text was removed to give us the chance, if we ever noticed the “bad translations/splitting”, of crossing our fingers and pressing that button with the hope that they might be fixed?
Hmmm.
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Not sure what kind of bad splitting was fixed but in French I still notice the end quotation mark " » " is split into its own sentence line.
Yes, that ability has been there forever and it is very handy for those who may have exact transcripts. Or anyone wanting to reformat as they want to. I haven’t tried the AI regenerate to see if it will help, but I like to take the youtube type of imports and adjust all the formatting so that the breaks are at actual sentences and ideally one sentence. Then I regenerate the timestamps. I’m sure others may do this as well. It’s much easier to do across the full text with automated tools to search and replace vs. doing it by hand one sentence at a time in the Lingq editor.
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It’s a bit bad to take a feature/button that has done a very specific thing forever, and then just change it to do something completely different without notice. If you want to add a new feature, that’s great, but then it should be a new feature, not something that overwrites an existing one.
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@ericb100 @TomErikSmith We understand your concerns, appreciate the feedback and we are looking into this now.
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oh! thank you for describing the situation in detail. Same here…
did you find a solution/answer?
Thanks
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I imported a video from you tube. Then I regenerate lessons myself. Regenerate Lesson in the “edit lesson” section is no longer doing what it has been for in the past.
Urgent technical assistance needed!
thank you!
@zoran
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Nope. No solution currently. That functionality is gone currently, but hopeful that it will get put back.
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We will put it back, it’s a work in progress.
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Great that this is being restored – another vote for the feature: I use this (or used to) all the time to fix up subtitles
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Any update on this, or how long it will take?
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@TomErikSmith Shouldn’t be too long, I hope in the next week or so.
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Great, thank you 
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In fact, AI could easily check the layout and provide a better formatting, but there isn’t such a feature. Right now I’m also using AI to adjust the formatting — very quickly and with great results
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I confirmed that the text can now be edited.
Since I can choose when to save, rather than it being saved automatically when I move focus, it’s easier to use than before.
Thank you very much.
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