Recent Updates

TLDR: Here’s what’s new and improved!

2025

JUNE

New Features

• Introduced a "Quick Edit" mode for scripts, enabling rich text editing with formatting options and auto-save.

  

• Added a dropdown menu for script actions, including "Quick Edit" and "Full Editor" options.

  

Enhancements

• Enhanced script editing feedback with visual indicators for saving and errors. 
• Scripts now display a loading spinner when loading content.

MAY

New Features

• Script language settings are now detected automatically.
• Introduced a language selection dropdown and auto-detect language toggle in the script settings sidebar.

  

• Added a voice command toggle in script settings for users with a paid plan.
• Scripts now display a loading spinner when loading content.

APRIL

Enhancements

• Updated the script management ‘script tile’ dropdown menu and present buttons. 
• Brought script editor update times down significantly 
• Improved script deletion with safer soft delete and background cleanup for better performance.

JANUARY

Enhancements

• Additional improvements related to light/dark mode buttons and modals.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed script export function

2024

DECEMBER

Enhancements

• Improved dark mode/light mode UI consistency and appearance.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed broken labels, made hidden rows show up, got the edit button working again.
• Fixed a problem where the system was saying a video was ready before it actually finished getting everything it needed to play properly.

NOVEMBER

Bug Fixes

•  Updated time calculations now consider the user's timezone for better precision.

Enhancements

• Improved security

AUGUST

New Features

• Presentation settings are now saved globally across all scripts (font size, line height, presentation width, etc.).
• The Overlay feature is now more persistent. It no longer goes away when your presentation stops.

Documentation

• The Overlay documentation page has an updated video walkthrough.

JULY

Enhancements

• Performance improvements (snappier load times, etc)

User Interface

• Changed the presentation taskbar from light to dark to help with hardware projection glare.
• Changed Auto speed up/down icons on presentation taskbar

JUNE

New Features

• Introduced public link sharing for scripts to the script editor page, enabling instant remote access to Presentation mode (viewer-only) via link.

MAY

New Features

• Introduced script duration and word count information in the script dropdown and sidebar sections.

  

• Introduced a new text selection controller for enhanced text editing within the editor, including options for bold, italic, underline, and color formatting.

  

• Added a new set of interactive text tools in the web interface for styling text.
• Introduced logic to prevent screen from sleeping during user interaction.

Improvements

• Visual styling updates for dark mode

APRIL

New Features

• Introduced dynamic display elements to provide feedback during video upload failures.

Enhancements

• Enhanced error handling and user interface updates for video upload functionalities.
• Various design updates

MARCH

New Features

• Added a video editing functionality with a video trimmer interface (currently in beta for select users).
• Added a filter form for scripts, allowing users to easily find scripts by label.
• Introduced a new feature for managing share settings, allowing content to be shared with specific teams and groups.

Enhancements

• Improvements to script revision history
• Updated the date formatting to consider the user's timezone.
•  Improved modal dialog aesthetics and usability by adjusting class attributes and style properties.
•  Modified the text editor toolbar's position for better layout and interaction.
•  Added styling for the script version dropdown for a better user interface.
• Enhanced video download options.
• Improved layout toggle (list/tile view)

Script Management Screen Updates

• Introduced a new section in the account view for announcements, team updates, a grid of scripts, tips, user guide, and a survey form.
• Added a new script card layout for displaying script details with options for editing, viewing, duplicating, deleting, and exporting scripts.
• Added a "Load more" link for paginated script viewing.
• Implemented a select dropdown menu for sorting scripts.
• Enhanced search filtering

FEBRUARY

Enhancements

• Design refresh, performance & security updates

JANUARY

New Features

• Introduced sound-based scrolling functionality for a more interactive user experience.
• Introduced a tips system to provide use-case specific guidance.

Enhancements

• Homepage navigation changes
• Signed-in users are now navigated to their account page when visiting speakflow.com
• Enhanced password reset page

2023

• Video improvements (and hot fixes)

• Video Features:
  • Enabled mobile video support.
  • Video enhancements, including padding adjustments.
  • Allow video embeds in blogs and documentation.
  • Thumbnail images can now be added to posts.
  • Fixed flip roundness visual issue.
• UI Changes: Updated the mid-section of the blog and adjusted image resolutions.

• Fixed the flip roundness issue again.
• Made changes to the force threshold for 'other' service.

• Updated teleprompter modes
• Removed unnecessary figure markup from docs
• Improved media handling:
  • Converted GIFs to WebM format for optimization.
  • Fixed issues with clickable images and video thumbnails.
  • Updated the video player.
• Tailwind CSS: Adjustments to the configuration and class importance.
• Improved debugging in Firefox.
• Added linter for code quality.
• Implemented new custom modaljs

• Improved video handling, especially during recording.
• Added thumbnail images to documentation.
• Small UI tweaks

• Fixed billing issue affecting some user upgrades

• Added an extension warning for users.

2022

June 

• Converted to Tailwind UI framework
• Updated Auto functionality

May 

• Added microphone mute button
• Made the Present button stick to the bottom of the screen

March 

• Users can vertically center the text on the screen
• Added initiator status (see which device is "Primary" when syncing multiple)
• Add script export functionality
• Bookmark functionality (Easily jump to sections within the script)
• Show announcements on user dashboard