ElevenLabs voices now available
- We’ve added 91 new ElevenLabs voices to the dashboard.
- Available across 20+ languages
Feel free to reach out if you have any questions or would like personalized recommendations.
New voice settings
Gain finer control over the AI voices you use in BeyondWords. To update a voice’s settings, go to “Content” → “Voices” → “Preferences” in your dashboard and select… → Settings alongside the voice.- 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)
Similarity, Style, and Speaker Boost work best when used with professional voice clones, as these settings are designed to enhance high-quality voice recordings.
Version 6.0.0Refer to our Magic Embed documentation for more information.If your plugin is already working as expected with the REST API, we recommend continuing to use that integration.
#447 – Made PHP methods static.
Enhancements and Features
#449 – Added support for Magic Embed integration within the plugin.- 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.
Posts previously created using the REST API will continue to use that method.
Fixes
#457 – Removed segment marker assignment.- Fixes a reported JS issue where the block editor “+” button was not being displayed.
Code Coverage
#455 – Increased PHPUnit test coverage.Refactoring
#454 – Added PHP type declarations.#447 – Made PHP methods static.
Compatibility
- PHP 8.1 is now the minimum supported version.
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.