Did you struggle in convincing people to share their account details with an unknown startup? What if you are fraudster and not a real company?

It'll always be a struggle but it's not something I'm actively pushing for anyone to do. If you're comfortable with it, great! If you're not, I think I'd be the last person to change your mind.

The company is definitely real, but anyone with at least a few hundred bucks can incorporate. Building trust is a non-trivial thing, and I try to do that by putting my name and reputation behind the product and blogging transparently about the journey.

I didn't see anything on the Plaid flow authorizing the ability to charge my accounts or make transfers, so I'm assuming it's only limited to to Transaction data.

Really wish Plaid showed what APIs were being authorized in the flow...

you are spot on - I agree, there is limited trust atm. What could this little "outfit" do to convince you to try its services?

The website only works in Chrome or Opera at the moment - this may be what is causing you problems. Potentially yes - we are starting with Mandarin because it's such a popular language to learn. What other languages would you like to see?

Thanks for the feedback! We now let you view the the page and only ask for microphone access when you press the 'record' button.

Hi, do you remember what the Windows-based software was called, by any chance? Was it PRAAT?

Hi, yes the classifier needs some improving. We expect that it would be much more difficult to make an accurate classifier for Cantonese, although we could make a website which presents Cantonese words/phrases and lets you see your (and the teacher's) pitch contour. Would that be of interest?

Hi, yes, unfortunately the classifier is not very good at the moment. We will work on improving it.

Hi, yes unfortunately at the moment the classifier can be quite inaccurate sometimes, especially if your microphone is catching some background noise. We will work on improving this.

Thanks for the feedback! We've done just that.

Thanks for the feedback! We didn't realise this would pose such a problem. We've updated the website so it asks for microphone permission after people press the 'Record' button.

Thank you, that's the perfect solution. Although you probably want to offer people a way to dismiss that modal, too: it's still "waiting" for permission rather than being able to go "wait this is not what I wanted to do how do I get back to the site".

Not on my iPhone you haven’t

Not on my PC running Chrome you haven't either

OK, could we please ask - did you access the website before we made the changes? If so - have you tried clearing your browser cache?

Just tried is now for the first time, 8 hours since you commented and it instantly asked for my microphone and I instinctively blocked it.

Thanks for letting us know - we've realised we were unclear with our initial correction: the modal that asks for mic permission and explains that all audio processing is done in-browser now only appears when 'Record' is pressed, so users can check out the rest of the website.

No I don't think so. It definitely popped up before I pressed anything for me.

Still broken on IOS