Q4 2023
Workspace: Job platform for freelancers to fulfill vidby’s orders with an option to create your own team
Text replacement feature: AI-powered option to translate in-video texts (shop signs, newspaper headlines, etc.)
Lipsync feature: AI-powered feature to edit appearance of the speakers’ mouths so that text pronunciation seems natural.
Subscriptions: Each registered user will be given free order limits for Minimal quality tier. Registered users can upgrade to Standard and Pro subscriptions that give access to additional features
Live call interpreter: A new feature for GoogleMeet
Integration with LLMs: Use of large language models will further improve quality of translations
Q3 2023
Additional payment for quality improvement: Users now have the opportunity to upgrade the quality of their final video after the initial order was placed
vidby joined Grass Valley's partner alliance to support translation workflows for media
YouTube Audio Tracker: A Chrome extension that lets users receive notifications about new YouTube audio tracks in their language
vidby partnered with Microsoft and became available in its marketplace
vidby MeetUp: Application for translation of conferences and live broadcasts
The company opened its first store in Spain (Palma de Mallorca)
Voice cloning: Users can clone their own voice to voice over their videos in 28 languages
Investment platform for video creators: InvestLink web application to bring together creators and investors
Q2 2023
Order templates: Introduced order templates with specific parameters that can be used to make new orders
New video subtitling feature of the video editor: The feature enables the users to change the styles of subtitles in the video
Ability to select video segments for translation: The users can now select video segments that require translation and remove video segments that can be left without
Four tiers of quality: Introduced the opportunity to select video translation quality: Excellent, High, Average, Minimal
Fee-based service of video viewing: Paid access to premium video content service
YouTube named vidby the Recommended Vendor for AI-powered content localization
Q1 2023
AI Speech Tempo: Introduced the ability to finetune the speech rate
Age-specific voices for all languages: The ability to choose AI-powered children, teenage, and elderly voices in addition to the standard male/female adult ones to voice over the videos in any language
Document Translation: New product for translation of documents in DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, and PDF formats
BrandName TTS feature: All the brand names are now pronounced as they are pronounced in the target language’s country