v2.10.0 · Changelog | Easy Dictation

New Features

Three new exercise types in the Vocabulary Book: Flipping cards gets dull, and grading yourself "I knew that" after seeing the back is easy to fake. Memory Rhythm now changes the question to match how well you actually know a word: newly met words come as Match, familiar ones as Hear the word and type it back, and words you know well as Type the chunk — the exact clip you first met the word in plays again, and you write it out. Nothing to choose; the app asks at whatever level you are at. The better you know it, the harder it asks.
Three new exercise types — Match, Hear the word, Type the chunk
Match: a warm-up for words you only recognise: One column of words, one of meanings. Pick a word, pick its meaning, and a green line ties the two together. Every decoy meaning comes from your own book in the same review batch, so guessing rarely works. Connect the last line and it moves on by itself. Recognise it first, recall it later.
Hear the word: listening only, no peeking: The word is spoken and you type it back. Hearing a different word is a miss; a slipped letter still counts and only drops to hard. This is a listening app, not a spelling app. Replay as much as you like, but past two plays the card stops earning top marks. Catching the word is what proves you know it.
Type the chunk: meet the word where you first tripped on it: When you save a word, ED remembers the clip you were listening to. In this exercise that clip plays again and you transcribe it. Only the word under review decides pass or fail, so a dropped "the" costs nothing. If the whole chunk feels long, hit Easy and the app fills in everything except the blank for the word you need to hear. The word lives in a real sentence, not in a list.

Improvements

Look words up mid-review: In the chunk exercise, every revealed word is clickable, so you can open the dictionary and save a new word without leaving the session. Opening the word currently under review counts as a miss, of course, since that is the answer.
The same shortcuts as the learn page: Replay, Easy and Ctrl + number to reveal a hidden word all use the keys you set in Settings → Shortcuts, so there is no second set to learn. Enter checks, Shift + Enter gives up.
Missing one of the new exercises means tomorrow, not end of session: Only flashcards come back later in the same session, because that button says so before you press it. The three new types simply pull the schedule closer, and today's session stays exactly as long as it promised. Your session is as long as it looked when you started.

Fixes

The session counter no longer runs past the total: Reviews sometimes showed impossible numbers like "25/21". The two halves of that counter were measuring different things and now count the same way.
Words play the moment the card opens, without a second click: The hear-the-word exercise sometimes opened silent and only spoke after you pressed replay. Open the card, hear the word.
Pronunciation in books no longer makes you wait: Tapping a word in a book could hang for a few seconds and then fall back to the robot voice instead of the real recording. It is always the Cambridge recording now, first tap included.