Changelog

    April 2024

    New Features

    • Allow to add mandatory survey questions

    Improvements

    • Improved search in asset management
    • Performance improvements
    • Extended iCal time zone support

    March 2024

    New Features

    • AI-powered Live transcription and translation is now available to all subscriptions without additional charges

    Improvements

    • Improved transcription reliability
    • Q & A tool styling improvements
    • Streamlined upload in Edit Layout
    • Improved thumbnail display on pause

    February 2024

    New Features

    • Delete questions from the 'Answered' column
    • Asset management: Video replacement

    Improvements

    • Removed old/new experience switcher for the Q & A tool
    • Webcam producer: More consistent blur experience, removed technical metrics
    • Updated analytics maps

    January 2024

    Improvements

    • Asset Management: Support audio clips, extended format and resolution support

    December 2023

    Improvements

    • Backend Chat function and Media library: Improved display and performance on iOS 
    • Video on demand: Improved slide synchronization 
    • Event settings: Improved language selector 
    • Q&A-Tool: Display settings remain even after refreshing the page 
    • Live transcription: Subtitles are now displayed in SlideSync IFRAMEs 
    • Improved transcoding infrastructure 

    November 2023

    Improvements

    • Backend Chat function: Push Notifications for chat messages.
    • Live transcription and translation: Improved quality of transcription and synchronization.
    • Event settings: Improved overview of settings.

    October 2023

    Improvements

    • Backend Chat function: Improved full-screen mode and static color assignment to each user.
    • Registration: Improved spam protection performance.
    • Live transcription: Improved localization.

    September 2023

    Improvements

    • Backend Chat: Links are now clickable!
    • Q&A-Tool: Fixed display issues for users with different roles.
    • Registration: Improved spam protection for event registration and sign-up.
    • Improved localization of player tooltips.
    • Improved campaign tracking.
    • Improved size of custom email logos for macOS and iOS.

    August 2023

    New Features

    • Excel export of usage statistics at organization level
    • Automated live transcription: improved performance
    • Backend chat function: Replacing of chat icon

    Improvements

    • Analytics: Improved visualization of countries in the world map
    • Q&A-Tool: Improved display of Q&A-Tool with different access permissions

    July 2023

    Improvements

    • Event settings: New design of the input field for languages.
    • Backend chat function: The chat history now automatically scrolls to the last message when new messages are sent.
    • Analytics: Video Player technology has been removed from tracking
    • Q&A-Tool: Special characters and names of questioners are now decoded correctly.
    • Live transcription: Subtitles are automatically added to the recording after the livestream is stopped.
    • Live transcription: Better performance in the display of the transcriptions.

    June 2023

    Improvements

    • Q&A Tool: Question editing is now signalled to other moderators.
    • Q&A Tool: Set the new Q&A-Tool as default and added tooltips to the question action buttons (trash, undo, publish).
    • Surveys: Simplified survey options dropdown.
    • Surveys: Use correct target language for non-localised languages (e.g. English subtitles) in the attendee view.

    May 2023

    New features

    • Hive P2P integration for live streaming.

    Improvements

    • Analytics: Video player technology is no longer reported in PDF export (always HTML 5).
    • Q&A-Tool: Introducing a new question editing modal.
    • Survey: Improved navigation from survey settings to the survey menu.
    • Improved event asset upload by supporting files up to 20 GB.
    • Removed Flash Media Live Encoder (FMLE) support.

    April 2023

    New features

    • Automated live transcription and translation

    • SRT ingest

    Improvements

    • Analytics: Providing a new PDF report with a 16:9 layout, including all key information and detailed views.
    • Improved the account unlock process.
    • Listen by phone: enabled for webcasts.
    • Removed the phone ingest encoding method – now integrated into microphone / webcam encoding.
    • Countdown: Improved usability and added Live Producer widget.
    • Layout editor: Always show first slide of the active slide set.
    • Video on demand: auto-play for video is deactivated and slide navigation is improved.

    March 2023

    Improvements

    • With default browsers now supporting the full range of video playback and capture, we have removed the system test from the backend page
    • Improved the editing of questions in the new Q&A-Tool and added question push message function
    • Added US-based phone number for listen and speak by phone
    • Improved fallback scenario for ECDN customers
    • Improved performance of SlideSync embeds    

    February 2023

    New features

    • Show survey results to attendees.

    Improvements

    • Listen by phone: Simplified configuration, extended live analytics.
    • Improved Audiocast Player and Slide view when going live.
    • Fixed fullscreen mode on iPhone when event is an audiocast.

    January 2023

    New features

    • Listen by phone: allows attendees to dial in to the event by phone. This allows the attendee to follow the event listen-only
    • New Apps menu to list future integration options to external apps
    • New countdown feature to activate a timer in the attendee view, e.g. during a coffee break
    • New billing view for organizations with sub-accounts

    Improvements

    • Removed Internet Explorer from the list of supported browsers
    • Improved ECDN server load-balancing
    • Improved video playback and fallback
    • Made organization analytics accessible for all authorized users
    • Better iCal support in Apple Mail on iOS
    • Improved resizing logic for video only events
    • Fixed bug: Event Manager is now able to remove permissions on event level

    November 2022

    New features

    • New support portal
    • Muting of speakers dialed in via telephone

    Improvements

    • Improved formatting of registrant names in the Question & Answer tool
    • Improved announcements when dialing in by phone
    • Improved synchronization of questions when using the new and previous versions of the Question & Answer tool in parallel

    October 2022

    Improvements

    • Corrected event access by administrators when using Single Sign-on in conjunction with attendee registration

    September 2022

    New features

    • Background blurring in Live Producer

    Improvements

    • Improved iOS playback
    • Improved loading of questions in the new Question & Answer tool
    • Corrected time zone offset in analytics PDF

    August 2022

    New features

    • Rewritten Question and Answer Tool – improved performance and added features such as sorting by votes and trash bin

    Improvements

    • Improved Split Tunnel efficiency and Peer-to-Peer CDN compatibility

    June 2022

    New features

    • QR code for on-site participants

    Improvements

    • Simplified survey activation and removed legacy field types
    • Improved compatibility of access tokens when using Microsoft Safe Links
    • Improved framerate for Webcam encoding

    April 2022

    New features

    • Create subtitles for recorded content using artificial intelligence
    • Question voting is now available for all customers

    Improvements

    • Allow all users to choose event group during event creation
    • Performance improvements
    • Analytics updates
    • Improved Word Cloud, e.g. full answers in tool-tip
    • Improved participant tracking in conjunction with Single Sign-on
    • Access control updates

    March 2022

    Improvements

    • Performance improvements
    • Event settings: Clearer options to manage public Q & A
    • Analytics: Styling improvements, real-time updates
    • Participant list: Also track across multiple concurrent sessions (tabs)
    • Asset Management: Support custom thumbnails in grid view; moved asset preview to the top, better upload status indication
    • Live Producer: Renamed ‘Auto Record’ to ‘Record’
    • Localization updates

    February 2022

    Improvements

    • Show survey in preview
    • Better compatibility with Safari

    January 2022

    New features

    • Permit moderation of public questions
    • Allow direct event access from registration confirmation e-mail
    • Allow to show freetext survey results as a Word Cloud

    Improvements

    • Show only questions in the Live column to organizers with the Speaker role
    • Better refresh of votes and survey results in the admin section
    • Live Producer: Start with camera enabled; show number of participants
    • Searching for multiple terms now narrows down the search results, rather than expanding them
    • Navigation updates
    • Clarified add-on options on landing page
    • Removed QA tool from projector view
    • Resolved countdown using the wrong language
    • Better resizing of survey results
    • Resolved error messages in recording editor
    • Access control updates
    • Localization updates
    • Allow changing asset languages within Asset Management

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