Slow on iPhone 16
This app is really slow activating the microphone, so I’m always speaking too soon. I had to turn off Enhanced Speech recognition because it wasn’t able to understand me. With it off the app understands much better and compliments my pronunciation. The app is way more responsive with it off also, but still slow. The sign up process tries to upsell you at least 5 things, I think more. It offers a Premium subscription at the very best price of $47 for a year. I bought it, but nothing tells me how to give it to someone or how to add it to my subscription, which were touted as options when buying it. Customer service is by email only. It took several searches to find the place to cancel the premium AI trial so that it doesn’t auto renew. It’s an unsavory business practice to hide this so deeply. It looks like a much better app than Rosetta Stone. More practical. I found it allows me to sometimes reply with a perfectly acceptable equivalent response and mark it as correct. That’s wonderful because I find some of the conversations stilted. Update: the app never reminds me to use it even though I have that turned on. I had several errors trying to get the app to keep the reminders on. But I don’t get them. It’s very slow to activate the microphone, so I had to make a habit of waiting to be sure it’s ready. An audible tone to say it’s ready would be better, but the lag shouldn’t exist. Lessons completed just clog up the screen and you have to scroll down. I don’t want to concentrate on writing at all. Give me the option to have speaking only. My subscription has run out and now working to find out how to get my $47 premium working. The more conversations I practiced the more unnatural they seemed. They’re just not natural speech. When as simple “Non” would be normal conversation you have to say that and then basically repeat what was asked.