Talk Dim Sum 6.8.9 - App Store

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About 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...

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. Restaurant link icons from Simple Icons. Photos from many dim sum excursions. Regional map images from Wikipedia (Creative Commons License from Wikimedia). Swift open source packages: AlertToast, ImagePickerView, LinksKit, Qgrid, SQLite.swift, SwiftUIPager, and SwiftyJSON.

Version History - require iOS 26 - remove Dim Sum Hut in Reno, NV - update link for Rainbow Kitchen in Las Vegas, NV - update link for The Spot Dim Sum and Boba in Sparks, NV - fixed romanization for eggplant tofu noodles - add Charles Yu (sci-fi writer) - add John Chu (sci-fi writer) 6.8.9 Jun 12 quick fix removing features that don't work in iOS 26 6.8.8 12/15/2025 Fixed missing photo for red bean moon cake 6.8.7 11/18/2024 Las Vegas update: added Jasmine (in the Bellagio, so it ain't cheap, especially the abalone siu mai), removed Noodle House, and fixed a bunch of links (casinos apparently like changing their restaurant URLs). 6.8.6 11/03/2024 - Added Beautiful South in Charleston, South Carolina. They don't have ha gow, but I'm making an exception since it's South Carolina. - Updated the entry on choy sum - added links and note it's also called yu choy 6.8.5 11/01/2024 - Added sweet and sour chicken to the AI - Map improvements: displays the selected restaurant address and stays centered on the selected address with some wiggle room 6.8.4 10/27/2024 Added sweet and sour chicken 6.8.3 10/26/2024 Added The Imperial Treasure in Matthews (Charlotte area), North Carolina. Soft opening last week. 6.8.1 10/15/2024 - Added Spin & Savor in Rochester, New York (conveyor belt sushi and dim sum) - Added chicken wing (雞翅) as a tag - Added salt and pepper chicken wings to the AI - Added sweet and sour dishes to the AI 6.8.0 10/12/2024 - Added sweet and sour fish - Long press on a dish description for a translation option - Now requires iOS 17.6 or later 6.7.9 10/06/2024 - Added Dim Sum Best of Taste in Alameda, California - More recipe links to Made with Lau and China Sichuan Food - About view has a link to the issue tracker 6.7.8 10/05/2024 - Added Chef Loong in Charleston, South Carolina - More recipe links to Auntie Emily's Kitchen and Py's Kitchen - Note curry puffs are also known as "Chinese samosas" (news to me) - Misc description fixes 6.7.7 10/03/2024 - New about view (top left button), includes a rate this app option - Updated Oregon restaurant links, removed Queenz Asian Cuisine (closed) - Added Yang Jisheng (author, journalist) to names 6.7.6 09/30/2024 - Added New Hwong Kok in San Jose, California - Added Alan Yang (screenwriter) in names 6.7.5 09/29/2024 - Ding How 2 in Huntsville, Alabama is closed (too bad, Alabama is off the dim sum map) - Peter Chang Herndon in Herndon, Virginia, is opening on September 29. 6.7.4 09/24/2024 Restaurant update: - New: Diamond Bay in Seattle, Washington. - Closed: Lucky Bamboo in Nashville, Tennessee, and (all in Washington) U Lin Asian Bistro in Lynwood, Joy Palace in Seattle, Ming Palace in Tacoma. - Updated some restaurant links. 6.7.3 09/20/2024 - Seafood World closed in Westminster, California, replaced by White Palace (user tip) - Retrained the AI for mango green tea - Fixed a missing pronunciation for stir-fried pea shoots in garlic 6.7.2 09/20/2024 Moved the info tab to a top left button (works better for iPadOS 18) 6.7.1 09/19/2024 Added Dim Sum House in Champaign, Illinois 6.7.0 09/17/2024 Added Mr. Dim Sum in Seattle, Washington 6.6.9 09/16/2024 Added Golden Harbor in Champaign, Illinois 6.6.8 09/15/2024 Added Coco Cuisine in Columbus, Ohio 6.6.7 09/13/2024 Added E-Tang Dim Sum in Savannah, Georgia 6.6.6 09/09/2024 Added Dim Sum House in Chicago, Illinois. Added glass noodles as a searchable tag. 6.6.5 08/29/2024 California update: added Koi Palace Contempo in Cupertino, Wah Sing Dim Sum in San Gabriel, Ocean Island in Monterey Park 6.6.4 08/24/2024

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Previous Versions

Here you can find the changelog of Talk Dim Sum since it was posted on our website on 2016-09-28 03:35:36. The latest version is 6.8.9 and it was updated on 2026-06-28 01:30:04. See below the changes in each version.

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