It shouldn’t be that strong of an effect, but maybe it’s too much still? Or maybe that feature is just undesirable. I reckon I need to add an option to disable it in any case.
The new sounds are a great improvement, the old ones were really stress inducing for me so I always had them silent. I’m looking forward to having the sound up with the new ones!
I was going to mention the settings page being a bit of a disaster now. It doesn’t play at all nicely on Chrome Android! Most of the labels are cut off on the left. But since you’re all over it already, I’ll just say keep up the amazing work!
Thank you
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Ah, I can kind of hear it now.
Maybe a lower pitched and duller alternative? Like a sample of a hand knocking on wood rather than an actual stone sample. I also like the idea of making another version of the currently available “Effects” sound - a more digital sound without variation.
Just some ideas. Anything would be awesome!
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amazing! thank you!
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I feel an urge to mention how I LURVE that it’s actually English!
British English, that is, even though they’re sadly leaving the EU …
… due to
nope, I’m not getting political here 
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Are there any plans to add voices for other languages (such as Japanese or Korean) later down the line?
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Yep several languages, japanese and korean included. I’ll be adding those in pretty soon, I just want to iron out the current stuff and make sure we have all the phrases we want before going through the translation, recording, and processing process for all the other languages.
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Hey Anoek,
I mentioned not getting any sounds 2 days ago, its working now!
Thanks for the fix, loving the new sounds.
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Yeah I guess it isn’t too strong of an effect, I think I just had my earphones up too loud initially and wasn’t expecting it.
I’m not necessarily against it, it was just something that I noticed and the banner on the main site was there at the same time for this forum thread.
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Awesome work, especially the 5 and 3 second countdowns. I still like the room stones and effects from V1 best, but now everyone can pick.
Feedback:
- Doubling of ‘game start’ alert when multiple tabs are open
- Overlapping of some sounds effects, for example the stone sounds and the soft-ticking often overlap if byoyomi is set to less than the soft-ticking time, along with the ‘game finished’ and ‘score stones’ alerts.
- When sounds load for the first time they can sometimes ‘clip’, like the fade in has been cut off.
- I’m not sure what the ‘Effects’ drop down list does. Effects and Effects(2012) both sound the same to me when I hit the play arrow, and they don’t seem to affect my game sounds.
- Subjective, but I actually preferred the simple V1 bowl-lid game end sound to this new one with the stones being cleared, it had a simple finality to it. The new one takes a bit too long, just like the end of an actual OTB game!
- This one is very picky and subjective, but it would be nice to have a better pass effect that matches the other board sounds. Beeps go well with the online elements like disconnection, but are a bit jarring with the pass. The voice is okay, but gets annoying when a lot of passes are happening. Maybe something like a finger double tap on the board, like a check in poker? Even a subtle bell, like on pandanet, would feel more organic.
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Is this a bad thing though? I can’t think of an example where a lot of passes are happening and it isn’t user error… so maybe it should be annoying?
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excellent work!!! I love it. thank you so very much! fantastic!
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I guess I find the pass voice alert annoying in general. I think I can narrow it down to a feeling that the announcer should be like an announcer in pro tournaments. I want them to keep me informed of useful info like time remaining, but ‘pass’ and the other signals from my opponent are outside of their domain.
This is super granular! But it does fit the pattern of all the voice alerts I’ve found annoying and turned off.
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Well if you don’t like it in general, that’s a different issue to the voice only being annoying when it comes up a lot. If you think she shouldn’t announce passes, just turn that setting off (or change it to a beep) 
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Please don’t default voices on for random stuff… I’ve been leaving my games up for years, and now all of a sudden I have to go find settings to turn voices off.
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If a setting is annoying, it’s easy enough to go turn it off… but if a setting is off by default, nobody is going to go look for it… there are many features on our site that a lot of people don’t know exist simply because they’re not on by default.
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Well, I don’t like the voice, and I don’t like the beeps, but I still want a sound for it. I guess that’s my feedback on that one particular alert. But like I said, I know it’s very picky and not very important, just a throwaway suggestion, so no worries. I love pretty much everything else about this update.
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stones sound good!
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I have a specific request on a sort-of-a-bug fix.
When I choose to use “Submit-move button” in Correspondence Submit Move, the stone placement sound sounds when the stone is placed on my screen before the actual submission to the game.
Please make this so that the effect sounds when the submit-move button is clicked.
This sort-of anomaly made me not realizing that I haven’t actually placed the stone many times in the past, forcing the opponent to wait much longer than intended when Live games are played using the Corres mode (so that players can play whenever they are both online and leave the board whenever they want).
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