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I have just created an account and tried to use the app; either I am dumb (at this hour), or the app has a very not intuitive UI :-)

I (think I) managed to create an expression, but: 1. it takes forever, I don't know what it's doing and it's still not done 2. I have no idea how to use it, onward 3. does not seem that I will be actually able to use it, as the app requires to be subscribed to use it...

Looking forward for a how to use manual / page + a real trial period. If the app requires a subscription with this UX experience, I will be gone :-)



I am the first to admit that the UI does not make sense to people who have not seen it in use. I have done some user onboarding sessions where you just “let them ask questions and click” and it goes terribly if it’s any consolation, I have never gotten that feedback after showing people how to use it (quite the opposite actually!)

Wrt to the expression, all expressions created today succeeded, so if you’re still seeing a progress bar let me know as that’s a bug. It’s possible something failed with the live updates, or it does take several minutes to create an expression (depending on servers, it can take up to 10 minutes at times, although the typical timing is 2-4 minutes depending on the expression)

If you click on any of the review methodologies, it will start reviewing any of your successful expression. From there, the experience should be a lot more explorer-friendly :)

What it’s doing is: analyzing the sentence, splitting it into phrases, aligning it across all languages, tagging all of the gender/case/tense/etc, researching pronunciation, generating audio, aligning the audio, prioritizing the words (across several axes), and generation explanations/dictionary for each individual word


I made some quick live videos today:

https://x.com/barrelltech/status/1917093849219895715?s=61

Please excuse the video quality, there will be better paced/audio/scripted demos soon!




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