We're excited to announce that AudioStack workflows are getting a major update. In the new version, it will be easier than ever to create professional quality audio ads. In order to make these improvements, you'll start to notice a few changes around the AudioStack platform, and some legacy workflows will be transitioning over.

As part of these changes, we will be turning off some experimental and beta products while we shift over. If you currently use PowerImport or PowerAudition and are not already in touch with our customer success team, please do get in touch ASAP at support [at] audiostack [dot] ai, so we can work with you to plan this transition period. We expect these changes to roll out fully by the end of April.

All other workflows, such as SonicSell and beta workflows such as SonicTag, will remain available while we get the new Workflows up and running 🏃

We've launched a new version of the Project Manager that makes it easier to organize your ads by displaying the folders where they are stored.

✨What's new ✨

• A completely redesigned and improved project management experience.
• See all the different projects everyone in your organisation is working on.
• All your previously saved ads from the old version will now be stored under either the "sonicsell" or "workshop" folder

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Remember that to create a new project, you can do so in any of our Workflows by typing the project name.

🎵 Introducing Our New Sound Library! 🎵

We’re excited to announce the launch of our brand-new sound library, packed with a much friendlier UX and new functionalities.

✨What's new ✨

👨‍💻 Advanced Filtering – Easily discover assets by setting parameters such as Provider, Energy, Genre, Instrument, License, and more.

🔍 AI-Powered Smart Search – Simply type what you're looking for, and we’ll return the most relevant tracks.

🎧 Waveform Preview – Skip through any sound asset using our interactive waveform preview and decide 10x faster if it's the right one.

⌨️ Enhanced Metadata Table – Every track now includes richer metadata for better insights.

🤓 Private/Public Sounds & License Types – Ensure the sound you choose is covered for commercial use.

💄 Sleek New Design – Enjoy a smoother, snappier experience with an improved play/pause button, refined cover art, better pagination, and a softer look and feel with pastel hues 🌈

📌 Now available for all platform users! Simply browse, preview, and integrate these sounds into your AI audio workflow effortlessly.

🚀 More features coming soon—stay tuned! 👀

Let us know what you think! 🎧

We would like to inform you that on the 26th of February , the following Voices from our Library will be deprecated:

⚰️Massiel, Dolores, Rosanna ➡️ Instead you can use Maribel
⚰️Deysi➡️ Instead you can use Ilse
⚰️Emmanuelle ➡️ Instead you can use Denisa
⚰️Ivan Jose ➡️ Instead you can use Santiago

Please reach out to us if you are actively using one of the deprecated voices and do not wish to switch, and we will try to accommodate your request.

This week, we released a number of bug fixes:

• Fixed an issue with icons not appearing correctly for Safari users;
• Fixed an issue with displaying favourites in the Voice Library;
• Fixed an issue with "no sound design" incorrectly returning a sound design in Workshop; and,
• Fixed an issue with the voice preview having a strange echo in Workshop in some rare cases.

🎵 New Feature: Sound Design Recommendations Endpoint

The production/sound/recommendations endpoint is now available 🥳 This endpoint generates customized sound design suggestions based on your input parameters, making it easier to create audio tailored to your needs.

📋 Here is a sneak peek:

• Accepts input parameters like mood, tone, and more
• Returns optimized audio recommendations to streamline your workflow.
• Cost: 5 production credits if your file is already tagged, and 15 production credits including tagging a new asset.
• Check the documentation for implementation details!

This week we also fixed a couple of bugs in the AudioStack platform:

• It's now possible to set a default accent in your Organisation settings, including British and American accents.
• We added a comment section to the "Report" section to make it easier for you to describe what's gone wrong when an asset fails to generate correctly.
• We fixed an issue affecting the playback of private sounds.

This week, we added eight new multilingual voices to our Voice Library, taking the number of available voices to 1,697!

We also fixed a number of bugs, including:

• An issue with the Assign Task button in Workshop preventing users from assigning a recording to another user;
• A problem with selecting the language for uploaded ads in Power Import;
• Project name disappearing when opening advanced settings in SonicSell;
• Directories with special characters being displayed incorrectly in Files;
• A small scrolling issue affecting users who are a member of many organisations; and,
• some small visual issues affecting Safari users.

You might've noticed, the team have been busy improving the look and feel of AudioStack in the last few weeks, with some new styling added around the Platform. There are more changes still to come, so watch this space 👀

UX Improvements and Bug Fixes in this Release 🐛:

• Fixed a bug where the sound library window would reduce in size while loading;
• Added a button to allow users to "Go to File" directly after uploading a new file;
• Fixed a bug where the pause button wasn't showing correctly on playing voice previews.

🎉 Happy new year from the AudioStack team! 🎉

Over the holidays, we shipped a number of updates, including:

• ✅ Fixed some normalisation issues affecting German voices' pronunciation of numbers;
• ✅ Made some infrastructure improvements to reduce throttling on speech requests and improve the reliability of speech processing;
• ✅ Made some other optimisations to our text-to-speech service;
• ✅ Updated the moods for our sound templates, to make them more reflective of the content and improve the content browsing experience;
• ✅ Improved support for longer content, to reduce timeout issues and improve overall performance when creating audio up to 1 hour in duration.

Stay tuned for some exciting updates to follow in 2025 🚀

• This week, we improved sound template tagging to make it easier to find the right sound in the Sound Library.
  • This includes allowing you to use the new tags as part of filters, as well as updating them in the Sound Library table.
• Improved UX for Recording Booth - we made it easier to record speech in Recording Booth and take your recording over to Workshop as speech to speech. You can now select multiple takes and save them in a single click - your most recent take will automatically be selected in Workshop.
• Based on customer feedback, we fixed "Multilingual" voices to the top of the Voice Library filters, to make it easier to find the voices you're looking for.
• It's now possible to invite a voice actor to record their voice directly from the Voice Library.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug with speech-to-speech for ads that came from SonicSell
• Fixed a bug with voice preview playback in Workshop