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Talk Dim Sum
Your dim sum companion
⭐️4.8 / 5
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📼3 vids & 9 scs
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📦~ in 5 days
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🗣❌ unsupported
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- Price History
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All Versions of Talk Dim Sum
6.4.8
June 27, 2024
Added haw flakes.
6.4.7
June 21, 2024
Added sesame candy.
6.4.6
June 15, 2024
Added snack, bakery, and claypot rice categories.
Added characters from the Old Master Q comic to name phrases.
Added Celeste Ng (author) and Margaret Chung ("Mom Chung") to name phrases.
More6.4.5
June 10, 2024
Removed Lucky House Asian Cafe in Las Vegas (closed a while ago).
Added Empire Dim Sum in OKlahoma City (that's three in OKC!)
More6.4.4
June 6, 2024
Added Ocean Bo Dim Sum in El Monte, California.
Added Kingdom Dim Sum in Los Angeles, California.
Added preserved sour plum.
More6.4.3
June 5, 2024
Added 88 Bao Bao in Frisco, Texas and multiple California locations.
Added chamomile tea to the AI.
More6.4.0
May 23, 2024
Added Imperial, John Holly's Asian Bistro, and Little Ollie's in Denver, Colorado.
Removed Emperor Palace in Broomefield, Colorad (closed).
Added recipe links to Sift 'n Simmer.
More6.3.9
May 8, 2024
Added YH Dim Sum in Jacksonville, Florida.
Added fried tofu to the AI.
6.3.8
April 27, 2024
Added beef and broccoli.
6.3.7
April 22, 2024
Added DAO Dim Sum (multiple locations) in New York and Queens, New York.
Added tripe to the AI.
Added pea shoots in garlic to the AI.
MoreTalk Dim Sum In-App Purchases History
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Talk Dim Sum Pro
Save favorites and practice speaking!
Price History of Talk Dim Sum
Description of Talk Dim Sum
Love dim sum, but don't know what to order or how to order? Bring this app, find what you like, and tap the speaker icon to hear the dish pronounced in Chinese (Cantonese or Mandarin) using iOS text-to-speech.
I made this app after visiting Hong Kong and trying to crash course learn Cantonese in the food courts. The early focus was just on dim sum and Cantonese text-to-speech and my favorite restaurants, but has since expanded (based on user tips and requests and my own interests) to more broadly cover Chinese and Chinese-adjacent food (over five hundred dishes) and include features such as Mandarin (traditional and simplified), search (English and Chinese), saving favorites, AI camera recognition of dishes, speech-to-text pronunciation practice, basic phrases, and over five hundred restaurants in the US (sorry, I gave up on trying to list every restaurant in the world, it's just not feasible).
Tips:
If the voice is stuck in Cantonese or Mandarin even after switching the tabs in the Practice screen, go to the Settings app, select Accessibility then Spoken Content and check the Chinese voice. If it's not one of the Siri voices, try selecting Siri in Mainland China, Hong Kong, or Taiwan.
If you don't hear the Chinese speech
1) check the mute switch on your iPhone and make sure it isn't on.
2) text-to-speech for a particular voice sometimes seems to require an internet connect, at least on initial use (same with speech-to-text, the microphone practice button).
2) sometimes a device will have trouble accessing the text-to-speech voice (it's the Hong Kong Chinese voice used for Accessibility in Settings), so try turning your device off and on.
Tapping the speaker icon plays back the Chinese pronunciation at half speed to help you learn. Tap the microphone icon to bring up more options, including adjusting the playback speed, switching between Cantonese and Mandarin, and practicing speaking (the speed and language settings are also in Settings).
Aside from the default speed, the speech may sound not quite natural because the app does not play back recorded speech but instead uses iOS text-to-speech functionality, which utters one character (i.e. one syllable) at a time, which may not match how an entire compound word or phrase is normally pronounced (you can hear this effect when using Siri).
The home screen shows categories of dishes. Tap each category to see the dishes. Or tap on the Search button at the top left (some vocabulary items like "takeout" are not in categories but available in via search).
Talk Dim Sum is developed with:
The dim sum icon from Stock Image Folio on Iconfinder.com.
The technicat logo designed by Dakota Snow.
Photos from many dim sum excursions.
Regional map images from Wikipedia (Creative Commons License from Wikimedia).
Swift open source packages: AlertToast, ImagePickerView, Qgrid, SQLite.swift, SwiftUIPager, and SwiftyJSON.
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Talk Dim Sum: FAQ
Talk Dim Sum is available on iPad devices.
Technicat, LLC launched the Talk Dim Sum app.
Talk Dim Sum currently supports iOS 17.0 or later.
The Talk Dim Sum app receives plenty of reviews and currently has a great user rating of 4.8.
Food & Drink Is The App Genre Of The Talk Dim Sum App.
6.4.8 is the newly released Talk Dim Sum version.
The latest Talk Dim Sum update came out on June 30, 2024.
Talk Dim Sum was first released on February 5, 2023.
Technicat, LLC: Contains no objectionable material.
The Talk Dim Sum app can be used in English, French, German and 6 more.
Unfortunately, Talk Dim Sum is not on Apple Arcade.
Absolutely! In-app purchases are available within Talk Dim Sum.
No, you cannot utilize Talk Dim Sum with Apple Vision Pro.