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Cheering sounds

baumkuchen5000   May 2nd, 2013 11:45a.m.

Could you please change those cheering sounds to something more pleasant?
Somehow they sound very unnatural and off to me. They are not recorded by a native speaker, right?
Anyone agree?

Another thing is that they actually cause a short stutter on my iphone 4, which messes up my strokes

learninglife   May 2nd, 2013 11:54a.m.

as said before I love them. please keep it.
its part of the whole idea to have fun and being motivated while skrittering..

the world is grey enough as it is - so please keep th laughter in.

@baumkuchen. why dont you take a break when you know the "disturbance" is approaching? get a coke after 5,10,15 minutes or just turn off the voice.

lechuan   May 2nd, 2013 1:11p.m.

Do you know about:

Settings->Sound Effects = Off ?

I personally keep on pronunciation, and turn off sound effects.

nick   May 2nd, 2013 11:42p.m.

There are four sets of iOS app sound effects: one for each language (Chinese/Japanese) crossed with whether you have eccentric flavor turned on. Which ones are you referring to which you don't like?

baumkuchen5000   May 3rd, 2013 1:28p.m.

I was referring to the normal Chinese one.
Didn't know about the eccentric flavour, which I like better (maybe because I don't understand what the guy is saying).
Is eccentric flavor changing anything else except for those cheering sounds?

By the way I like to keep sound effects on, because I want to hear when I do mistakes in the stroke order.

nick   May 3rd, 2013 10:14p.m.

In the app, I think it just changes the number of words you can multi-add at once to be a Fibonacci sequence (plus the sounds change). It does a few more things in the web version.

Alan   May 4th, 2013 12:52p.m.

My girlfriend laughs when iOS Skritter tells me to "加油,加油!" (jia1 you2) = add oil (literally) = what you yell to cheer on a sports team

paul86   May 21st, 2013 7:38a.m.

I love the little messages.

I can't use characters on this laptop, but the sounds even taught me a new word:

shu1 dai1 zi5

Bookworm! Haha.

Hugh723   June 10th, 2013 10:56a.m.

I think the sounds are brilliant!

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