Recent Updates
TLDR: Here’s what’s new and improved!
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2024
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
Aug 8, 2023
- Video improvements (and hot fixes)
Aug 7, 2023
- 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.
Earlier in August 2023
- Fixed the flip roundness issue again.
- Made changes to the force threshold for 'other' service.
Late July 2023
- 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
Early July 2023
- Improved video handling, especially during recording.
- Added thumbnail images to documentation.
- Small UI tweaks
June 2023
- Fixed billing issue affecting some user upgrades
Late May 2023
- 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