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
regionAnalysisto 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
- Public beta launch of kiyânaw Transcribe 🎉
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