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I found another error with the White District Chicken Feet. The name is probably correct but the description mentions Thai Style Sweet Sour Chicken feet.

macOS and iOS builds have a blank search screen (something wrong with the cupertino search widget)

Both swift and flutter versions could include a thumbnail of the dish image for each row in the search results.

any name with XO e.g. XO pan-fried rice roll, has a wrong pronunciation of XO

I can't find the original request, but it was for adding ordering phrases that include the appropriate classifiers for each dish, e.g.

"yut tiu cheung fun" (one strip of rice roll)

An Android build is available (here on Github) so it could go on Google Play if there is demand (but I really don't like Google Play, it's a real hassle deploying, gets a lot of spam, and Google Play generally has more annoying reviews than the App Store).

The practice speaking feature works OK, but there's more polish in, for example, in the Memrise app.

https://www.thespruceeats.com/chinese-flower-roll-hua-juan-694493

I prefer Cantonese Yale and find it hard to remember which tones the Jyutping numbers refer to, but it would be a nice option (perhaps in Settings)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyutping

the AI feature should be Pro, although it should reach a reasonably consistent performance first

Even more than Chinese names, dishes appear under various English names, so would be good to list and be able to search them (currently some alternate names are mentioned in the dish description).

The Chinese for orange chicken, which translates to "orange flower chicken", doesn't match the Chinese listed in Wikipedia (which translates to "orange chicken" for the American version and "citrus peel chicken" for the Chinese). I don't remember where I got the "orange flower chicken" version from.

The dialog lines in the Phrases screen are labelled with speaker identifiers so they can be displayed a in a chat session, but that distinction isn't visible in the current display, which is just a list.

The characters list with links to wiktionary only correspond to the Cantonese names. There should be a different list fo Mandarin, if the Mandarin is different, and a different list for Simplified (will require reorging the JSON a bit).

add dish entry for tofu skin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu_skin

use the upcoming TipKit to display tips

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/TipKit

It often takes me several taps to get one of the menus at the bottom of the dish screens to pop up.

Dishes frequently appear with various names, would be nice to show (and search) them.

app store review

The reason I didn’t give it 5 stars though, and the real reason I reviewed the app was the laughably bad pronunciation. It’s not that it’s inaccurate - it just sounds like a cross between Jessica Rabbit and a 450 pound manatee. I played the sound and immediately my friend asked what sounded so 核突.

Please do not play these in the restaurant. They will definitely 落地笑.

app store review:

This is a great app and I’ve been able to share the names of some favorite dishes with my son. But just today when we opened the app, we were quite upset to find that all the dishes are now in mandarin instead of Cantonese. What happened? I checked the option for Cantonese instead of Mandarin and it’s all still in Mandarin. Please fix. Thank you!

While testing a testflight build of version 5.1.7, in the practice screen of the cold noodles dish, while switching among the different languages cantonese/mandarin/simplified via the tab and tapping the microphone to practice speech, the app got into a state where it didn't respond to taps on the tabs. Was unable to reproduce in the next build.

There is some code to check if the mute switch is on while running text-to-speech, but it doesn't seem to work, should be popping up an alert (using AlertToast)

The markdown content could be made more concise by using custom delimiters around the character and then replacing with the wiktionary link by the loading code.

Should add a scheme doc to this repo.

In 2.7.5, tapping on the Settings icon crashes the app.

The android and mac builds could go on Itch.io, and in fact they were previously, but for now they are only on this repo (releases) to minimize work and keep my itch.io page game-only.

Formerly there was a share feature that emailed or sent to social media the name of a dish from a dish page. Better would be a button on a dish page that let you take a photo a dish and shared that with the dish name.

on iOS 16 (verified with iOS 16.0.2) after using the speech practice feature, the speech playback is lowered in volume. But oddly, the quited speech is unaffected by the mute switch, which normally completely mutes.

In phrases, some phrases seem to be connected in the UI so tapping on one will pronounce all of them, e.g. the first tw out of three phrases in Apologies.

generate web pages from the json files to incorporate in the Talk Dim Sum website

Specifically, this means a converter that generates markdown files compatible with Hugo and the Blowfish theme.

Would be nice to have explanations for phrases, similar to those in the dishes

Doesn't scroll the whole dish page, so the photo is always visible but can't see much below.

Like typically language learning apps, there should be an ideally pleasant sound effect if a word or phrase is spoken correctly (and something not too obnoxious for failure).

In the restaurant detail view, if you manipulate the map there's no convenient way to recenter around the selected restaurant, short of backing out of the page and reentering it.

Chinese sausage roll has 卷 as a tag instead of 捲. This dish has 卷 in the name but most of the dishes with that word use 捲 and we use that as the category word for rolls.

Should do some surveying to check the usage, but roll is a better translation.

The dish json files use both 捲 and 卷 for rolls, probably should settle on the latter, which I believe is always used with simplified characters, and just make a note that the former is also but not always used with traditional characters.

request to make the Anddroid version available on f-droid

STT shows "correct!" initially before it's been used

The original request for the search feature envisioned a search through all the description text, but the current implementation just searches the dish names (English and Chinese) and tags to keep the implementation and search results manageable. Still, it could be useful to have a full search option.

add a github action to validate all the json files

The Character section of each dish description (under the Characters heading) describes the Cantonese word, but there should also be descriptions for Mandarin and simplified characters when they differ.

The built-in map view for restaurant detai pages is pretty limited. Perhaps add an option to go to the apple maps app, google maps, etc.

When you hit the Play button to start text-to-speech, it should switch to a pause button while the speech is taking place, but it doesn't.

app store review

if possible add some

Boba names :)and the complicated ice and sugar Ritual.