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Changelog

Recent updates to our applications:

December 8, 2025

  • Improvement: Adds ability to view media credentials expiry and manually refresh. This fixes the issue where users would see “waveform error” continuously.

November 21, 2025 - UI Improvements

  • Improvement: Add ability to filter and search issues when no region is selected.
  • Improvement: Add buttons to navigate to next/previous region in region list, helpful for going to “last” region in transcription.

November 20, 2025 - Language Database

  • Improvement: Initial launch of our Language Database, with support for Plains Cree Y-dialect (nêhiyawêwin) and Northern Michif.

November 17, 2025

  • Improvement: Saving indicator updated in Transcribe to reflect pending saves for a transcription, navigation events while queued saves will trigger a warning for the user.
  • Improvement: Underlying format change to regionAnalysis to accommodate future changes for Language Database (coming soon).

November 12, 2025

  • Improvement: Add documentation link to Transcribe.
  • Improvement: Add ability to export transcription text to transcription settings.

September 9, 2025 - Support

  • Bugfix: We identified & fixed an issue with transcription listing that was resulting in some users not being able to see all of their transcriptions.
  • Improvement: Improve UX by caching Transcriptions locally and only retrieve “updates” since last sync.
  • Improvement: Split transcription list into “My Transcriptions” and “Shared with Me”.
  • Improvement: Add Discord link to Support page.

September 4, 2025 - Support

  • Improvement: Add support link & page to kiyânaw Transcribe with email & Facebook messenger options.
  • Bugfix: Add cache-busting logic for PWA.
  • Improvement: Enable media uploads for mobile, add build number to user menu.

September 3, 2025 - UI improvements

  • Improvement: Remove (annoying) “toast” save message in favor of an icon/spinner indicator for saving transcriptions.
  • Improvement: Swap the position of the region buttons & title bar for improved workflow.
  • Improvement: Change out region Play icon for better differentiation from normal play button.
  • Improvement: Automatically select newly-created regions.
  • Improvement: Add full-size video option for desktop (circle icon).
  • Improvement: Save video, zoom, and playback speed preferences to local storage.
  • Bugfix: Fix “self-conflict” bug where changes from only one user were causing conflict detection logic to fire.
  • Bugfix: Fix bug where issues could not be resolved.

August 29, 2025

  • Bugfix: Fix iOS/Safari “cursor jumping bug”, users reported when trying to make changes to a transcription region the cursor in Safari (desktop & mobile) would jump to the beginning of the region.
  • Bugfix: Fix an issue with large (1h+) transcription waveform processing.

August 25, 2025

  • Feature: Add support for additional media formats (mobile)
  • Feature: Add improved error UX for waveform processing issues

August 16, 2025

  • Feature: Add (initial) PWA support for kiyânaw Transcribe
  • Bugfix: Fix missing [Add new +] button for desktop

August 15, 2025 - Initial Launch

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