Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mandarin Pronunciation

Re:Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mand... by drastorguev on Sunday December 22, 2019 @05:23AM (#21856326)

Thanks for the feedback! We didn't realise this would pose such a problem. We've updated the website so it asks for microphone permission after people press the 'Record' button.

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Re:Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mand... by TheRealPomax on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @11:45AM (#21873185)

Thank you, that's the perfect solution. Although you probably want to offer people a way to dismiss that modal, too: it's still "waiting" for permission rather than being able to go "wait this is not what I wanted to do how do I get back to the site".

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Re:Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mand... by phyrex on Sunday December 22, 2019 @08:59AM (#21857128)

Not on my iPhone you haven’t

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Re:Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mand... by unforeseen9991 on Sunday December 22, 2019 @10:49AM (#21857742)

Not on my PC running Chrome you haven't either

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Re:Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mand... by drastorguev on Sunday December 22, 2019 @02:13PM (#21858988)

OK, could we please ask - did you access the website before we made the changes? If so - have you tried clearing your browser cache?

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Re:Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mand... by XOPJ on Sunday December 22, 2019 @10:41PM (#21861345)

Just tried is now for the first time, 8 hours since you commented and it instantly asked for my microphone and I instinctively blocked it.

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Re:Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mand... by drastorguev on Monday December 23, 2019 @01:54AM (#21861947)

Thanks for letting us know - we've realised we were unclear with our initial correction: the modal that asks for mic permission and explains that all audio processing is done in-browser now only appears when 'Record' is pressed, so users can check out the rest of the website.

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Re:Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mand... by phyrex on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:01PM (#21879647)

No I don't think so. It definitely popped up before I pressed anything for me.

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Re:Show HN: Mandarin Tone Trainer – A ‘Helping Ear’ for Mand... by kanwisher on Sunday December 22, 2019 @02:08PM (#21858961)

Still broken on IOS

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