Changelog

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Script Templates (formerly Summarization)

• Summaries → Scripts: The feature has been renamed to reflect its broader purpose—transforming articles into scripts, not just summaries.
• Script Templates: Choose from our default templates to control structure, tone, and length before audio and video are generated, or create your own custom template.
• Built for video & audio: Scripts are optimized for spoken delivery and visual storytelling, improving performance in both audio and video formats.
• Pre-made storytelling formats: Use ready-to-go templates like Summary, Hook & Payoff, and Presenter Voiceover for different engagement goals and platforms.
• Custom templates: Create your own instructions to match your editorial style, brand voice, or video strategy.
• Works with Style Templates: Pair Script Templates with Style Templates to control both the narrative and the visual presentation of your videos.

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Video 2.0 (Beta)—Scalable video for every newsroom

• Style Templates: Videos are generated using Style Templates that control layout and branding, ensuring consistent styling across all videos.
• Enhanced caption animations: New caption styles and animations to improve readability and engagement.
• Enhanced media animations: Improved transitions and motion effects for both images and video clips.
• Multiple formats: Generate both vertical and horizontal videos, with image resizing to support different platforms.
• Video segments: Articles can now include video clips as well as images, allowing generated videos to combine both media types within a single video.
• Getty Images integration: Enhance videos with access to the Getty Images library.
• Featured Video: Set a feature video to have a video —rather than images— play in the background of your video

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ElevenLabs voices now available

• We’ve added 91 new ElevenLabs voices to the dashboard.
• Available across 20+ languages

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New voice settings

• Multilingual mode: Automatically detects foreign words and switches languages when needed.
• Speaking rate: Adjust the voice’s speaking speed.
• Expressiveness: Controls how varied and emotional the delivery sounds. (Available on Azure HD and ElevenLabs voices)
  • Lower values = steadier, more consistent
  • Higher values = more emotive and varied, but less consistent
• Similarity: Determines how closely the output matches the original speaker’s tone and character. (Available on ElevenLabs voices)
• Style: Controls how stylized or expressive the delivery is compared to the original speaker. (Available on ElevenLabs voices)
• Speaker boost: Enhances clarity and presence to better match the original speaker. (Available on ElevenLabs voices)

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Enhancements and Features

• A new Magic Embed option has been added under Content > Integration method in the plugin settings.
• This option is intended for users working with page builders such as Elementor, who may have experienced issues getting the REST API to function correctly during initial setup.
• Enabling Magic Embed will automatically add the Magic Embed script to each of your posts.

• Magic Embed must be selected in the WordPress plugin.
• Magic Embed must also be enabled and configured in your BeyondWords dashboard.

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Fixes

• Fixes a reported JS issue where the block editor “+” button was not being displayed.

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Code Coverage

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Refactoring

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Compatibility

• PHP 8.1 is now the minimum supported version.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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.