Usage analyticsTrack detailed usage analytics across all your projects in one place.
- Quota visibility: See exactly how your quota is being spent, making it easier to stay organized and plan ahead.
- Flexible filtering: Filter by project, time range, or voice to understand usage patterns across different teams or brands.
Video podcast feeds
- Auto-distribute your BeyondWords videos to platforms like YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts
- Create your feed under Distribution → Podcast feeds.
- Content extraction: Introduced new AI-powered extraction mode for finer text-to-audio accuracy.
- Quota emails: Added option to include additional recipients for quota limit alerts.
- Summary feeds: Fix so only summaries (not full articles) appear in summary podcast feeds.
- Video text: Updated to always display article text instead of pre-processed text.
AI preprocessing
- Uses context-aware text normalization to automatically correct mispronunciations, improving how dates, scores, measurements, and abbreviations are spoken.
- Automatically recognises and converts foreign words into their native pronunciations (currently working for English language in German text - to be expanded soon).
- Can be enabled at either a project level (Content → Preferences → Pronunciations → AI preprocessing) or at an article level within the Editor.
- Faster, cleaner, and more powerful text-to-speech editor
- Voice cloning available from inside the Editor, so you can create and assign voices without leaving your workflow.
- Adjust voice, summarization, and video settings per article.
- Option to import from URL
- Video: Control caption lines per scene, caption alignment, and article image playback behavior.
- Magic Embed: Improved compatibility with dynamically rendered JavaScript articles.
- SAML: Added Single Sign-On (SSO) support for streamlined and secure enterprise logins.
Magic IPA
- A new tool for generating accurate IPA transcriptions—no prompts required.
- Created in collaboration with linguists and developers to ensure precise phonetic handling for tricky words.
- Updated and expanded our library of premade voices, with improved pronunciation and smoother delivery.
- The latest multilingual voices now support the language rule, enabling accurate pronunciation of foreign words or phrases.
Professional voice cloning
- Major updates to our voice models, improving naturalness while reducing data requirements and training times.
- Professional voice cloning now supports 84 languages and accents.
- Fixed a bug causing duplicate audio segments during regeneration with new voices.
- Resolved an issue preventing audio uploads for some users.
- Fixed a WordPress publishing bug that mistakenly published unpublished audio.
- Deprecated X-SAMPA support in favor of IPA for phonetic spellings.
WordPress plugin v5.0.0
- Tabbed settings interface now includes options from the BeyondWords dashboard.
- Changes sync automatically between WordPress and the BeyondWords dashboard.
- Legacy audio player deprecated—the new BeyondWords Player is now the standard for playback.
- Removed built-in Elementor compatibility—player embeds still work, but won’t appear in Elementor edit screens.
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Legacy parameter removed:
beyondwords_podcast_id(posts created with v5.0.0+ won’t play on older plugin versions). - Deprecated filters removed—see updated list in our WordPress Filters documentation.
- Added WebP image support in the Editor.
- Updated JS Player SDK—you can now customise time formatting on the player.
- Fixed issue with unnecessary article regeneration when API updates were off.
- Added status and publication filters to project filtering.