I just released Version 2.1.0 of “Free Voice Training”, the privacy-focused voice-training software I’m developing.

You can try it out on the current flag-ship instance.

As with every previous version, it will never contact any webserver except to download the source-files and it is intentionally possible to download the html-file (that contains all necessary resources) and open it as a file on your device without internet.

If you don’t want to go that far, but still have offline-use you can install it as a progressive web-app, and enable caching in the settings-menu. (If you have done so already, go there, press the “Attempt Update”-button and reload to get the latest version.)

Those things aside, here are some of the new features:

Most importantly, you can now save recordings. Just enable the “Store settings” and “Store data”-checkboxes in the settings menu and all recordings will be stored until you manually delete them.

Be warned that unchecking the “Store data”-checkbox won’t delete old data, it will just stop new data from being stored! If you want to delete old recordings you can either use the delete-buttons in the results-table or delete all local data (but not settings) with the “Delete Stored Data”-button.


The second big new feature is that you can now add your own texts: Press the “”-button below the text-box and you will get a dialog in which you can select the language, the name and the contents of the new text. Once you’ve done that, you can add it to the text-storage with the “”-button of the dialog. If you have data-storage enabled, this will be stored in the same database as your recordings and persist after reloads.

If you want to add a text in a language that is not yet in the system, you can use the “”-button of the language selector to add a new one. You have to give a name (e.g. “Malti” for Maltese) and a language Code (e.g. “mt”) and confirm. This will both be used to sort your text in the text-display and to mark it in HTML as having that language so please use standard codes.

That said: If you have good public domain texts, especially in languages that are not yet listed, PLEASE submit a feature-request to add them on the project-page on gitlab. And this does not just apply to extremely widely used languages like Spanish and Polish, but also to smaller languages like Catalan or Danish! (Looking at various people here. )

If you want to delete a custom text directly, you can select it in the display-section and press the “”-button. This does not work with default-texts though.

If you want to delete a custom language, the only way is currently to delete the entire database of custom data; That’s not ideal, and I hope to change that in a future version, but for now just don’t create too many languages that you want to get rid of afterwards.

There is now an easy-way to provide site-specific legal information regarding data-protection, which can be found in the legal-dialog (“”-button).

If you want to run a mirror (PLEASE do!), I’m happy to provide you with assistance in setting that up.

With that we get into the smaller features:

Starting and stopping a recording will now draw a vertical line on the spectrogram, just like playing back an old recording does.

The target-frequency-selector now displays the musical note and “gender” of the chosen frequency.

The results table stores date and time of the recording.

And several minor improvements to eye-candy.

Please share and do your voice-training! (if you want to. )

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