What's New
Follow LinguMark's progress, new features, and updates here.
v1.33.4 - Live Waveform & Advanced Pronunciation
July 2026- ✦ 🌊 Real-time Canvas Waveform: Added Siri-style dynamic audio visualizer that glows and bounces in sync with your mic volume.
- ✦ 💡 In-place Dashboard Translation: Right-click any word/sentence in the speaking target card to view its full translation, and left-click it to toggle back and forth.
- ✦ 🧩 Polished Empty Warnings: Upgraded insufficient word count notifications across games with the clean, lock-themed warning layout.
v1.31.3 - Interactive Pronunciation Practice (Speech Recognition)
July 2026- ✦ 🎙️ Interactive Pronunciation: Practice speaking saved words and example sentences using your browser's native speech recognition API.
- ✦ 🌈 Smart Word-by-Word Analysis: Real-time accuracy scoring highlights correct words in green and mispronounced ones in red.
- ✦ 📈 CEFR Level Sentence Database: Added 120 calibrated practice sentences across levels A1-C2 for English, Spanish, French, and German.
- ✦ ⏳ Optimized 1.2s Silence Delay: Smart speech detection handles natural pauses in longer sentences without early cutoff.
v1.20.2 - Universal Subtitle Translator
July 2026- ✦ 🎬 Universal Subtitle Support: Transform video captions on YouTube, Udemy, Coursera, and TED Talks into interactive words with click-to-pause lookup support.
- ✦ ⚡ 60 FPS Performance: Optimized DOM tokenization using requestAnimationFrame and DocumentFragment rendering off-screen.
- ✦ 📦 Safe Tooltip Architecture: Isolated overlay tooltip root outside subtitle DOM limits to avoid styling breaks on player controls.
v1.19.1 - National Libraries
June 2026- ✦ 🚀 National Libraries: Added dynamic national language libraries for Spanish (Cervantes), French (Académie), German (Duden), and Italian (Crusca).
- ✦ 🌍 Multilingual FastPath: The level path can now be dynamically played for all active target languages.
- ✦ ⚙️ CSP Security Fixes: Audio playback and background processes were migrated to async to fully comply with Chrome Manifest V3.
- ✦ 🛠️ Bug Fixes: Resolved native English translation fallback issue showing Turkish meanings.
v1.18.1 - Enhanced FastPath UX Design
June 2026- ✦ 🎨 Premium Layout: Compacted FastPath view into a zero-scroll format with backdrop blur effects and dark gradients.
- ✦ 🛠️ Overlap Fixes: Fixed close button overlap and added backdrop click dismissal.
v1.14.0 - Safe & Clean Codebase
May 2026- ✦ 🔒 Deprecation: Completely removed legacy PDF reader module for better performance and MV3 compliance.
v1.8.0 - MV3 Standards Compliance
April 2026- ✦ 🛡️ Service Workers: Rebuilt extension utilizing Manifest V3 background service workers and strict security policies.
v1.0.0 - Birth of LinguMark
March 2026- ✦ 🌱 First Release: Initial launch of LinguMark featuring Smart Web Scanner, Oxford definitions, TTS audio wave, Collocations, Streaks, and SM-2 Algorithm.