Stutter stars release logs

what's new‍

//Bugfixes

• Fixed: voice input during scaffolding when Press to talk was enabled

what's new‍

// Bugfixes

1. Fixed: Speech recogniser would sometimes stop listening in the Motorboat game and other minigames
2. Fixed: Crash on Rollercoaster game
3. Expired logins will now be properly re-authenticated
4. Fixed issue of being soft locked if you minimised the game while a message was displayed
5. Fixed: Some words were not properly recognised
6. Fixed: Memory leaks in the speech recognizer
7. Fixed: Utterance count during practice mode boss games
8. Fixed: Audio during Unicorn game video
9. Fixed: Bridge builder rope
10. Fixed: Typewriter intermission overlapping dialogue with feedback
    

//Improvements

1. Hold to talk functionality (+ Toggle in options menu)
2. Added in toggle to stop the “No Internet” prompt showing up repeatedly for the session
3. Implemented a dimmed background for certain menus to better separate the background
4. Improved speech detection in Motorboat and Snailsail games

what's new

//Bugfixes

1. Fixed: New words would sometimes not load in Moleboss game
2. Haunted house: Fixed Zumi sometimes not running
3. Haunted house: Fixed ghost sometimes not appearing in the mirror
4. Fixed boss healthbar dissapearing after reloading a boss scene.
5. Fixed certain loudness dialogue audio playing twice
6. Fixed a couple missing dialogues or wrong audio on loudness
7. Fixed skating games ‘stuck in air’ issues.
8. Golem Trouble: Fixed game softlock after failing
   

//Improvements

1. New speech science video for Surfing game
2. Improved speech bubble visibility when near edge of screen
3. Volume meter for the loudness games
4. Reduced delay of recognizer in dialogue
5. Minor UI changes in Settings menu

what's new

//Bugfixes

• Fixed: Statistics not always properly updated when starting the game
  

//Improvements

• Some dialogues and voice-overs updated

what's new

//New content

• New minigame: Rollercoaster!
  

//Bugfixes

• Fixed: Story mode button was sometimes unclickable
• Fixed: Microphone was sometimes not activated when restarting a minigame from the world map
  

//Speech recognition

• Increased sensitivity in mindfulness games

what's new

//Bugfixes

• Fixed: mic supports on-the-fly input output changes

what's new

//Bugfixes

• Fixed: various bugs related to bluetooth and other type of microphones

what's new

//New content

• New Island: Loudland with Candyland and Haunted House minigames!
  

//Speech recognition

• Updated easy onset feedback
• Updated Typewriter feedback
  

//Bugfixes

• Fixed: Boss progressbar not decreasing
• Fixed: ZenBeach did sometimes not end properly
  

//Improvements

• Visualization of the ease line in easy onset games
• Improved microphone processing
• Added in new sound effects for the minigames!
• Added in a separate microphone panel in settings

what's new

//Bugfixes

• Fixed: Sound was not played through headphones when wired or Bluetooth headphones were connected
• Fixes issue where Chunking ship minigames were no longer selectable
• Fixed: failure on some MoleBoss utterances
  

//Improvements

• Added option to cancel example audio in Typewriter
• Voice spawns from typewriter

what's new

//Speech recognition

• Overall speech recognition accuracy improvement
  

//Bugfixes

• Fixed: microphone not working in mindfulness minigames
• Fixed: Updating speech settings did sometimes not succeed
• Fixed: Aspect ratio adjustments on mobile did not always apply correctly
• Fixed: Dialogue continue arrow animation
• Fixed: Utterance text stays visible after Microphone test
  

//Improvements

• Smoother loading during game launch and minigame transitions
• Improved speech recognition reaction time during dialogue
• Large performance improvements and optimisations
• Practice mode: tutorial mode is now always on by default
• Update Typewriter minigame feedback

what's new

//Bugfixes

• Fixed: removed Loudness minigames as these are still under development

what's new

//Speech recognition

• Improved accuracy of pitch feedback

//Bugfixes

• Practice mode motorboat compatibility
• Challenge completion and outro dialogues can no longer overlap
• Updated target pitch values
• Fixed: Issues with Bluetooth on iOS
• Fixed: speech recognition settings were not always properly updated
• Fixed: downloading updated speech recognition settings took long to complete
  

//Improvements

• Challenge reward animation improvement
• Minimum feedback during challenge

what's new

//New Features

• Can now generate progress notes! This was actually added in a previous update, however we have added a lot of additional changes to this feature so you can now preview a note.
  

//Speech recognition

• Fixed: voice activity detector was not properly reset
• Improved accuracy of hard onset feedback
• Improved accuracy of pitch feedback
  

//Bugfixes

• Fixed: Last letter of text does not fill while speaking
• Adding missing SFX to the UI
  

//Improvements

• Updated RollerSkates utterances
• Various improvements to UI usability
• Localization surrounding different statistics updated to better reflect their purpose

what's new

//Speech recognition

• Fixed various bugs in speech recognition settings
  

//Bugfixes

• Fixed: Returning to login menu would sometimes freeze the game
• Fixed: Save files would not be properly updated on guest accounts
• Fixed: Buttons are no longer auto-highlighted on mobile devices
• Fixed: Additional registration prompt after skipping certain dialogue for new users
• Fixed: No more overlapping dialogue after completing Golem Trouble
• Fixed: Wrong intro dialogue on FanMan game
• Fixed issue where game would remain blurry when going to stage
• Fixed: Crash during motorboat game due to stackoverflow
• Fixed Butterfly rescue and golem: Correct utterances will always hit the target
• Fixed: Soft lock after deleting all save files
  

//Improvements

• Updated Hummy’s movement during the beanstalk game
• Butterlfy rescue and Golem trouble gain expected amount of Voice
• Typewriter: Pause indicator conforms with screen resolution
• Slowness: Gemma jump animation improvement
• Sfx samples for voices and utterances slider in options menu
• Microphone setup button no longer requires you to unpause before beginning setup
• Microphone no longer waits for silence, preventing blocks in noisy environment
• Updated vineswing outro dialogue
• On first login, the motorboat minigame is loaded immediatly
• Statistics: Highlight currently selected month

what's new

//Bugfixes

• Fixed: overlapping days in statistics menu
  

//Speech recognition

• Updated speech recognition settings
  

//Improvements

• Improved reporting usability

what's new

//New content

• Challenges: Get a chance to earn additional rewards by completing a challenge during a minigame.
• Practice Mode: practice speech in a sandbox game mode with the options to set a time limit or utterance limit. Additional scaffolding option.
  

//Bugfixes

• Disable story moments in practice mode
• Fixed: Force download data does not trigger a full download of the data
• Fixed: When exiting a practice mode game before timer is done, the timer keeps going
• Fixed: Vineswing minigame ends too soon in practice mode
  

//Improvements

• Reporting tool
• Slowness minigames: adjusted minimum target duration visually

what's new

//Bugfixes

• Fixed 'false' crash pop-up when closing the game.

what's new

//Speech recognition

• Fixed: Crashing on larger poems
  

//Bugfixes

• Fixed: Statistics were not shown in guest accounts

what's new

//Bugfixes

• Fixed: Returning to login menu would sometimes freeze the game
• Fixed: Save files would not be properly updated on guest accounts

what's new

//Speech recognition

• Fixed: Previous utterance could appear during Yes/No questions
• Fixed: some utterances were detected as wrongly pronounced
• Fixed: some utterances had the wrong example speech assigned to them
• Disabled microphone processing when game is paused
• Fixed: Beanstalk recognition was too lenient
• Fixed: speech was sometimes not detected in Snail Sail game
• Resolved various issues related to speech recognition that resulted in a crash
  

//New content

• Pitch island part 2: Butterfly Rescue, Golem Trouble and Hang Glider minigames
• Motorboat: Expanded introduction sequence
• A game update is no longer required when starting the game for the first time
  

//Registration rework

• Account creation  and registration rework
• Guest account option with anonymous login
• Option to register a guest account
• Updated Tos and privacy policy messages
  

//UI

• Various UI interaction fixes
• Fixed menu’s breaking at 20:9 aspect ratio
• Fixed various mismatches for Audio Examples
• Skip dialogue button disabled during scaffolding utterance
• Improved options menu (Pages, Audio examples for sliders)
• Updated Microphone check UI
• New end of content window (Subscription)
• Typo: Hang Glider
• Information about server connection, login and download status is now shown in game
• Updated message when account name is too short
  

//Bugfixes

• Fixed: Crashes when skipping between various minigames
• Fixed: Crashes when microphone is changed (Removed, plugged in)
• Fixed: Chunking island not unlocked for some users
• Fixed: Speech did not always initialize in the balloon game
• Fixed: Crash on IOS when exiting the game through the main menu
• Update utterances from the targets list
  

//Audio

• Fixed various music and sfx instances playing at the wrong time
• Islands available for free are more clearly shown on the map
  

//Balance

• Stage: Items have a maximum level
• Shortened Zen Island games length
• Motorboat: Shortened outro dialogue Yes/No questions
• Typewriter: More leniency on pauses between words.

what's new

• Stage introduction no longer played without valid license
• Increased slow motion duration by 1 second for Skating Part 2
• Set correct utterance display for Skating Part 1 scaffolding utterances
• Fixed layering of sailboat (Gemma)
• Updated a couple of voice over mismatches in dialogue
• Fixed blocking subscription status bug

what's new

• Initial release

what's new

1. New content: Pitch
2. Fixed Voice in result screen displaying the wrong value
3. Added Intermission dialogue to Vineswing (Longer words)
4. Additional failed speech recognition parameters: FlatPitch, MissedPause, PauseBetweenWords & PauseTooLong
5. Improved feedback when uttering the wrong utterance.
6. Added background music to the stage.
7. Added missing particle effect to Surfing minigame.
8. Fixed duplicated graph labels on the Y axis.
9. Fixed issue with background music being occassionally audible after outro cutscenes.
10. Fixed issue with guided voiceover being very quiet in the Sailboat mindful minigame.
11. Fixed inconsistent scale of Gemma in Snail Climb.
12. Fixed wrong easy onset visualisation on Phonation Island
13. Fixed issue that some long pauses in the TypeWriter game were not detected.
14. Fixed issue that words starting with “ch” where not properly recognized.
15. Fixed issue that the speech recognizer was waiting sometimes too long to finish recognizing.
16. Healthbar on bosses will no longer reset when failing
17. Typewriter: Fixed utterance examples not playing
18. Corrected feedback on certain chunking fail categories
19. Fixed various missing / mismatched dialogues
20. Fixed wrong example utterance sound files
21. Added new content for the VineSwing and SnailClimb minigames.
22. Windows SmartScreen no longer incorrectly blocks the Window Installer

what's new

1. New content: Stage!
2. New Island: Easy Onset
3. New Island: Slowness
4. Fixed YesNo loop including properly handling other answers than yes or no
5. Fixed utterance appearing during YesNo questions
6. Updated visuals for the YesNo questions
7. Fixed Zumi’s icon on the map
8. Fixed issue where consecutive fails counter would not be reset, not allowing for a second opportunity
9. Fixed issue where re-opening the Typewriter game would result in errors
10. Mr. Mole: Growl sfx on hit - auwauwaw!
11. Fixed issue when an utterance was incorrectly being classified as “too short”
12. Improved speech-to-text synchronization in TypeWriter game
13. Improved breathing detection in mindfullness games
14. Improved handling of noisy microphones and “popping” sounds
15. Scrolling text on Voice collection
16. Healthbar: Improved visuals (Cracks, shake)
17. Progressbar: Waits on completion before being hidden
18. Reduced the file size of some DLL files in the Windows version
19. New prompt to select a microphone at the beginning of the game if you have never played
20. Linking to the changelog from the main menu. Hi!
21. Fixed incorrect voice over for cutscene
22. Incorrect wrong feedback was sometimes given (for example “wrong pronunciation” instead of “hard onset”)
23. Fixed Voice Power counter at the end of minigames taking far too long with higher amounts of Voice Power gained.
24. Additional tiers of Voice bubbles (1, 5, 10, 50,…)

what's new

1. New Island: Chunking Ship.
2. Audio options expanded. User can now set custom volume for Background Music, SFX, dialogue voice and utterance voice separately.
3. Disabled loudness label in mindfulness minigames.
4. Message when reached end of current version content
5. Memory and speed improvements when processing long recordings
6. Improved speech recognition accuracy when microphone volume is low

what's new

1. Corrected improper tracking of stats.
2. Rebalanced audio of cutscene voiceovers.
3. Fixed error where you could still interact with menu underneath statistics menu.
4. Fixed error with visualization of utterances.
5. Dialogue will now respect volume selected.
6. Tracking amount of words correctly uttered.
7. Postcards now have a sound effect.
8. Added Typewriter minigame with first two levels and new mindfulness exercise (Fan-Man).
9. Improved waiting-for-silence and voice activity detection.
10. Yes/no questions are added to the motorboat minigame.
11. Progress bar improved functionality and bugfixes
12. Fixed issue where resuming from pause would slow down game
13. Further normalization of all dialogues
14. Deleting player will now delete all the statistics data stored also.