Changelog - WaveShift

October 2026

A one-line low-balance reminder now appears above the dock when your balance would not cover another video of the length you just watched — at the first pause and again when playback ends.
If a checkout closes without payment, a short note lets you tell us why.
If your balance does not cover a whole uploaded video, you can dub the first part with the minutes you have. Dubbing the whole video afterwards credits the first part's minutes back when it finishes.
New tasks use the Steady voice engine by default again, replacing the Natural (Fish) default from September, whose voices carried too much accent. Natural stays available, and is still picked automatically for languages Steady cannot speak. Existing tasks and any engine you picked yourself are unchanged.

September 2026

Dubbing now covers 44 target languages. The original ten stay fully supported; 34 more are available in Beta, where dubbing quality is still being validated. The language picker has a searchable list behind the main grid.
Finished projects stay available for 29 days instead of about a week. The expiry is shown on each task.
More video files are accepted at upload, including VP9-encoded video, and a file you already uploaded in another task is reused instead of uploaded again.
New tasks use the Fish voice engine by default. Existing tasks and any engine you picked yourself are unchanged.
Timing: one planner now fits translated lines into their time slots per batch and re-renders only the lines that still run too fast or too slow.
Brand and product names stay in Latin script when dubbing into Chinese, Russian and Japanese instead of being transliterated.
Playback can start sooner: the streaming setup now runs alongside the source download.
Subtitles follow the video's real frame, and the stacked mobile player gives the picture its own space.
After a finished dub you can rate the result, and if a task fails you can tell us what happened.
Browser extension (1.3.7–1.3.9): a searchable language picker, a design that matches the main site, and complete UI translations.

July 2026

Clone method is now a preference: choose how a speaker's voice reference is applied instead of taking the built-in default.
Long videos resume instead of restarting. A retry now continues from the last completed point rather than re-rendering the whole timeline, so a failure near the end no longer costs you the whole job again.
Retry is available on far more failures. Errors you can actually resolve — including running out of balance mid-job — now unblock the retry button once you have fixed the cause, instead of leaving the task permanently dead.
Videos that finished with a degraded video track can now have the video leg regenerated on its own, without redoing the audio.
Translation quality: prompts are now specialised per target language, terminology is deduplicated per entity across a video, and a guard catches drift between languages that share a script (English against Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian).
Speaker labels no longer leak into translated text, and speaker identity no longer changes across window boundaries.
Background music is more stable. Loudness is now locked per task instead of being continuously normalised, which removes the pumping that could be heard under dialogue.
Browser extension: a live countdown to first playback, a notification when the dub is ready, and links that jump between the extension card and the web workspace.
Fixed pricing and billing wording that described charging by source video duration. Billing has always settled on delivered audio; the copy was wrong, not the behaviour.

June 2026

Per-speaker voice reference lock: one reference per speaker within a transcription call, which removes the timbre jumps that could happen mid-video.
Reference audio is now chosen by perceptual quality (DNSMOS P.835 signal rating) plus acoustic admission and speaking-rate checks, rather than by position alone.
Subtitle editing gained a manual per-segment re-dub that uses that segment's own original audio as the voice reference.
Background music separation moved to a higher-quality model.
Faster dubbing across the board: continuous-batching TTS, batch-level pipelining, and warm-up coverage for the first batch.
Transcription defaults switched to Scribe, with in-window pipelining so translation starts before the whole window is transcribed.

May 2026

Live stream dubbing with a rolling DVR window.
Subtitle editing rebuilds only the lines you changed, rather than the whole video.
MP4 export with soft-baked packaging, and parallelised container IO on the export path.

Something missing or broken?

This list only covers changes you can notice as a user. If something regressed, tell us: support@waveshift.net