For the last couple of days when I try to listen to the Conversation Transcript and Additional Vocabulary (I'm working on lesson 18.2 right now) there is an excessive lag time between when I press the play button and the recording begins. Everything else is working normally. But this issue takes up valuable learning time. I have logged out of RL, closed Chrome, then logged back in with no improvement.
Excessive lag time playing back sentences.
Dan-H24
February 7, 2018
sfpugh
February 7, 2018
Yes I've noticed this too although not on every phrase. It's rather annoying, the delay can be a few seconds.
jason-oxenham-founder
February 8, 2018
Hi guys - At this stage we think that it is a glitch that occurred with one of our servers. In saying that, do you notice any consistencies with when this happens? e.g. longer/shorter phrases, in the reinforcement activities, etc?
Dan-H24
February 9, 2018
Jason: thanks for the response. Honestly, I haven't noticed any patterns. It doesn't seem to make a difference whether the phrase is longer or shorter. But I'll pay closer attention tomorrow if the problem persists.
Dan
Dan
sfpugh
February 9, 2018
The problem doesn't seem to be related to the length of the phrase as far as I can tell. But I get the impression that it might be related to the time of day. At the time I posted this before 8 am GMT the response was very good and most of the US will be asleep at this time. Perhaps it is related to the load on the servers.
Update at 16:40 GMT mostly very good but occasional delays of a second or two. Not so sure of the time of day theory.
Update at 16:40 GMT mostly very good but occasional delays of a second or two. Not so sure of the time of day theory.
Matthew-H68
February 9, 2018
I logged on about 2:00 pm (CT) and the teacher's audio lagged a lot in the conversation transcript and extra vocabulary, while I had very little trouble with the playback of my recording. I hope it just had to do with the new updates to the program.
Dan-H24
February 10, 2018
An update on fixing this problem please? The lag time really cuts into study time!
Thanks,
Dan
Thanks,
Dan
sfpugh
February 10, 2018
Today, at 16:00 GMT, I had 1 out of 30 phrases with a 2 second delay, the rest were under a second.
I wonder if this is language related. I am studying German which may not be as popular as some other languages. It is relatively unusual for for me to experience delays that cause a serious problem, although on occasion it has been bad enough to make me give up.
I wonder if this is language related. I am studying German which may not be as popular as some other languages. It is relatively unusual for for me to experience delays that cause a serious problem, although on occasion it has been bad enough to make me give up.
jason-oxenham-founder
February 10, 2018
Hi all - This is a little perplexing as we haven't changed anything for 2-3 months on how the Rocket Record system works. In saying that the IT team will be looking at this first thing tomorrow morning to see if we can figure out what's going on, although it is tricky when we can't replicate it at our end.
Dan - We will look at the lesson you initially had trouble with and see if we can get anywhere with that.
Thanks for your patience!
Dan - We will look at the lesson you initially had trouble with and see if we can get anywhere with that.
Thanks for your patience!
sfpugh
February 11, 2018
No appreciable delay here here in the UK on playback of phrases, or starting to record, or playing back my recorded phrases at 9:00 GMT.
I am wondering if the problem is local to Dan.
I am wondering if the problem is local to Dan.
jason-oxenham-founder
February 12, 2018
Hi all - We are still unsure of the root cause of this issue. It's likely that it is a regional thing, but regardless we are going to implement a change that should speed up the recording process all round. This should be in play within the next 48 hours or so, and should lead to a general improvement.
Ramsey-P
February 12, 2018
Sometimes it happens to me.
Matthew-H68
February 13, 2018
Help! I'm still having trouble with the time delay in the teacher's recording in the tests, and it is at least a minute long. It has also started with the Rocket Record feature in lesson 9.1 (level 2, lesson 1.1), particularly happening in the afternoon.
Alan-L1
February 14, 2018
I noticed that there is no delay at all if I go through the lesson a second time without exiting.
Ramsey-P
February 16, 2018
Yeah, if you stay in the lesson and try a phrase for the second time it is granted (gaurenteed) to work.
jason-oxenham-founder
February 19, 2018
Hi all - Just updating you on this. We implemented an improvement, which should make Rocket Record more responsive. Please let us know if you notice a change either way in performance!
Dan-H24
March 6, 2018
I thought this issue had been resolved, it did work well for a few days. But a noticed a few phrases lagging yesterday, and today it has gotten much worse. I tried closing Chrome, logging out and back in, even tried it with Safari and couldn't get it to respond at all.
So apparently the problem persists. It is very distracting to study habits. Please look at it again.
Thanks,
Dan
So apparently the problem persists. It is very distracting to study habits. Please look at it again.
Thanks,
Dan
jason-oxenham-founder
March 6, 2018
Hi Dan - That's interesting, as nothing has changed at our end. I am wondering whether it is a computer system thing.
We are pushing out a large upgrade within the next 48 hours, although that is mainly to do with the Android app and Play it!, some minor improvements to Rocket Record will be made as well.
So, maybe let's wait until that has been done and see if there is any improvement.
We are pushing out a large upgrade within the next 48 hours, although that is mainly to do with the Android app and Play it!, some minor improvements to Rocket Record will be made as well.
So, maybe let's wait until that has been done and see if there is any improvement.
Dan-H24
March 6, 2018
Jason: Okay. I will be working in lesson 18.7 tomorrow but not on Thursday, so I'll let you know how it responds on Friday.
Thanks for paying attention to user comments. I can't speak to other language learning sites, but this speaks well of Rocket Languages.
Dan
Thanks for paying attention to user comments. I can't speak to other language learning sites, but this speaks well of Rocket Languages.
Dan