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Changelog

Follow along as we ship improvements to help language programs deliver better speaking practice and instructor insight.

March 11, 2026

New

My Vocabulary page — Save words from conversations to a personal vocabulary list. View active/passive usage ratios, lexical diversity metrics, and track vocabulary progress over time. Includes pinyin generation for Chinese.
French, Russian, and German support — Full conversation processing, vocabulary tracking, pronunciation feedback, and analytics now available beyond Chinese.
Pre-conversation briefing screen — See assignment details, prompts, and expectations before starting a conversation.
Assignment deep linking — Share direct links to specific assignments with students.
Settings page — Customize AI tutor preferences from within the app.
Submit Feedback page — Send feedback directly to the Talio team with built-in validation and guidance.
Demo trial activation — 14-day trial with activation modal and guided onboarding for new users.

Pronunciation display — Scores now mapped to a 1–5 scale. View individual attempts and filter by segment for focused review.
Teacher dashboard — Refreshed layout with automatic class selection.
Demo onboarding — Role toggle to preview teacher and student views, clearer feature-constraint messaging, and streamlined institutional onboarding.
Conversation reliability — Error boundaries, reconnect retry handling, atomic processing locks, and timeout recovery in the conversation hub.
Processing feedback — Clearer spinner states, step indicators, and graded-results handling during post-conversation processing.
UI design system — Neutral-first color palette with refined navy/slate button hierarchy.
Marketing site — Centralized styles, updated hero and problem sections.
Vocabulary analytics pipeline — Per-conversation vocabulary snapshots, custom vocabulary list endpoints, and full pipeline enforcement on the backend.
Pronunciation alignment — Token-level aligned storage for fine-grained pronunciation data, with improved Chinese pinyin recovery and alignment fallback.
Speaking time & speed — Canonical realtime resolution, 30-second minimum gate for insight endpoints, and WPM data loss fix.

Staging deployment workflows for both frontend and backend.
Agent authentication endpoint and preflight checks.
Consolidated analytics CLI replacing scattered scripts.
30+ new backend test files covering demo accounts, vocabulary analytics, pronunciation persistence, student data access, and more.