Genderfluent Genderfluent

Updates

Updated on: Thu Sep 17 2026

September, 2026 (blog post)

Improvements

  • Added a Progress tab with practice summaries, a calendar, activity trends, and individual practice sessions.
  • Added optional speech-to-text transcription with word-by-word playback and overlays for pitch, formants, gender estimates, and volume.
  • Added a tutorial covering recording, reviewing, and practicing your voice.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed musical-note labels appearing one octave too low or in the wrong position on pitch charts.
  • Other small bug fixes and performance and stability improvements.

July, 2026 (blog post)

Improvements

  • Added audio uploads (beta) to analyze prerecorded files for pitch, formants, volume, and gender estimates.
  • Added on-device analysis for supported devices, with Local only, Local first, and Prefer cloud privacy settings.
  • Added controls to choose live or after-recording feedback for each analysis type.
  • Included audio analysis models in the app bundle so they no longer need a separate download.
  • Increased free real-time formant estimation from 1 to 5 minutes per day.

Bug fixes

  • General bug fixes and performance improvements.

April, 2026 (blog post)

Improvements

  • Added in-app connections and recording sharing with custom feedback requests, now available on web, iOS, and Android. See the sharing and community overview.
  • Added groups for sharing recordings and giving each other feedback.
  • Added bulk upload for custom practice card sets.
  • Added notes and tags to recordings.

March, 2026 (blog post)

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the higher-quality pitch algorithm was not loading on the web.

February, 2026 (blog post)

Improvements

  • Android app released.
  • Added a “Microphone sensitivity” setting to help with quieter or louder microphones. To adjust this, click on the filter icon in the top right, and select the “Microphone sensitivity” dropdown.
  • Audio is saved in a higher quality format. Uses native sampling rate (e.g. 48kHz) instead of downsampling to 16kHz.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue where gender estimates were not being calculated.
  • Audio recording quality improvements, particularly for Firefox.

January, 2026

Improvements

  • Added the ability to change the height of the plots. To do to this, go to general settings and click ‘Edit chart height’.
  • Updated the audio processing library that’s used on web version for improved reliability.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue where email could not be changed.
  • Fixed an issue where password could not be reset.

October, 2025 (blog post)

Improvements:

  • iOS app released on the App Store.
  • Added Sign in with Apple.
  • Simplified the zooming behavior. You can now click / tap and drag to select a region to zoom into. An icon will pop up in the lower right to let you undo that zoom.
  • All free accounts now get 1 min / day of real-time formant estimation.
  • Real-time formant estimates are shown more smoothly, rather than added in 1 second chunks.

Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue with noisy audio recordings. Audio is processed in small segments (e.g. 0.01 seconds), but they would sometimes get out of order, which caused the ‘staticky’ sound.
  • Fixed an issue where an audio recording that was shared was not properly displaying the chart data (e.g. pitch, formants).
  • Fixed an issue where the total saved audio recording was not calculated correctly.
  • Many other small bug fixes and UI improvements.

Known issues:

  • At the time of this update, Sign in with Apple was temporarily unavailable while waiting for Apple’s servers to update.

June, 2025

  • You can now select the microphone input again. To do so, click on the filter icon in the top right, and select the “Microphone input” dropdown.

May 14th, 2025

The scheduled maintenance is complete. All users should expect to get an email to reset their password, but if they did not then click “Forgot password?” on the login page.

May 12th, 2025 (blog post)

Genderfluent will be down for a scheduled maintenance on May 14th, 2025 from 10:00 PM to 12:00 AM EST.

May, 2025 (blog post)

  • Added the ability to link an existing Gmail-based account to Google sign-in.
  • Fixed a temporary issue with logging in with Google and saving/fetching recording.
  • Fixed an issue where the play/pause button would sometimes get stuck in the “Pause” state when you started recording new audio while playing back something that was already recorded.
  • Fixed incorrect urls in the website footer.
  • The change email flow was improved. You now have to enter a new email and verify it via an email sent to that new email; in the meantime your account will show that the new email is awaiting verification. Note: right now, you cannot change your email if you signed up via “Continue with Google”

April 19, 2025

  • Audio will be recorded in mp3 format by default for all browsers. It was previously set to webm for some browsers.
  • Fixed interactive playback issues with Firefox.

April 19, 2025 (blog post)

Working on launching Genderfluent on iOS and Android in the next couple months! The mobile app will include:

  • Improved privacy options
  • Faster, on-device audio processing
  • A refreshed look

Performance Improvements

  • Fixed high memory usage
  • Fixed audio recording issues in Firefox
  • Fixed an issue where audio recordings were randomly not being saved.

September, 2024 (blog post)

Improvements

  • Added vocal formant analysis with F1, F2, and F3 feedback.
  • Added optional cloud-based gender estimation for devices that cannot run it locally.
  • Improved pitch tracking during rapid pitch changes and background noise.
  • Extended retention of audio exceeding free-plan limits to up to 5 years after a subscription ends for users who have previously subscribed.

June, 2024 (blog post)

Improvements

  • Added practice cards with words, sentences, and short stories at different reading levels, plus private custom card sets.
  • Added per-card practice history and playback of the corresponding parts of saved recordings.

May, 2024 (blog post)

Improvements

  • Updated the app architecture and login flow to improve reliability, and refreshed the marketing website.
  • Added microphone input selection.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed several smaller bugs following the migration.

January, 2024 (blog post)

Improvements

  • Added shareable voice recordings with comments and controls for sharing pitch and gender data. Plus users can enable private comments and set sharing expiration dates.
  • Improved subscription management.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed issues with the pitch-quality toggle and feedback forms.
  • Fixed users sometimes being sent to HTTP instead of HTTPS.
  • Improved backend reliability.

March, 2022 (blog post)

Improvements

  • Added dark mode and an option to display pitch as musical notes.
  • Added a higher-quality pitch estimation option.
  • Made small performance and interface improvements.

January 30th, 2022 (blog post)

Improvements

  • Added optional typical pitch-range overlays and synchronized zooming across charts on desktop.
  • Added an option to disable gender estimation while recording to reduce processing and battery use.
  • Added loading indicators for app startup and recording processing.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed gender estimates not working in certain versions of Safari and Edge.

January 9th, 2022 (blog post)

Improvements

  • Opened the Genderfluent beta to the public.
  • Improved pitch and gender estimation, added gender-estimation confidence values, and reduced pitch processing power usage.
  • Added an audio-volume chart and faster, interactive charts with zooming and panning.

April, 2021 (blog post)

  • Opened Genderfluent to private beta testers.