Improved
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If your balance cannot cover a video, Hello8 says so before uploading it, with the real cost and a link to plans. No more uploads for nothing.
Settings now come as four pages: Account, Plan and billing, Notifications, Appearance and language. Plan and billing lists your invoices, PDFs included; the Stripe portal stays for card changes.
The AI Reviewer dialog shows the price of every pass and the total on the button. Your briefing is right there, where it matters most.
A fourth detector, Fidelity, catches fillers, false starts and hesitations left in the subtitles when your briefing asks for readable or rewritten text. The number of findings now depends on content, not duration: a short but dense video is no longer capped at ten. A partial review says so, instead of showing a green card.
Your context is no longer sent verbatim on every call: a short summary replaces it, so your production sheet no longer drowns your instructions. And if too many subtitles come back empty, the translation warns you instead of being delivered.
From a pasted text you get the terms, but also style rules and a summary. Terms can be corrected before they are created; an acronym comes with a suggested expansion; every question says why it is asked. And a failed analysis says so, with a retry button.
The Briefing panel becomes a sheet: one row per decision (format, fidelity, length, speed, context, glossary, rules), with the value in plain words and where it comes from: you, the project, or the default. The same sheet shows at upload and in the AI Reviewer. Three fidelity levels (verbatim, readable, rewritten), a length slider whose preview comes from the real engine, and at upload, one line that inherits from the project.
Two cases where an edit was lost without warning are fixed: editing a subtitle then clicking straight onto another, and retouching a sentence then splitting or merging the segment without leaving it. Character and speed counters now follow your typing live.
Click Transcribe: you land on your video right away, and the upload becomes the first processing step. As soon as transcription answers, its text unrolls in front of you. Four readable stages, and the editor opens the moment the text is in, reading speed already fixed: nothing moves under your cursor any more.
The speaker count given at upload is honoured. Line breaks follow each language's rules. A failed translation warns you instead of being marked ready. The share dialog lists every collaborator. Everyone can delete their own comments.
The Quality panel shows, language by language, which subtitles were checked and which were not; a subtitle edited after the review goes back to “unverified”. Next to it, how often its suggestions were kept: eight out of ten, on a real campaign.
Before building your subtitles, Hello8 asks a few questions, one at a time: your names and terms, the format, fidelity to speech, length, reading speed. Two minutes, optional: no answer, nothing changes. Your proper nouns reach speech recognition from the very first pass, then translation and the AI Reviewer. You can answer while transcription runs.
Sign-up opens as a bottom sheet, and the processing screen shows progress as a readable list instead of truncated steps.
If our main engine is down or overloaded, your transcription restarts on a second engine by itself. Nothing to do on your side, and no double billing.
Fewer needless cuts, very short subtitles held up to one second so they stay readable, and overlaps reported in Subtitle Health instead of being patched silently. On our French tests, the worst reading speed drops from 85 to 35 characters per second.
The character limit now applies to the whole subtitle, not the line. Three bands, like reading speed: on target, slightly over (tolerance shown), too long. And “Re-split” really re-splits to the new limit, and stays undoable.
The catalogue grows from 32 to 90 languages, for transcription and translation alike: Vietnamese, Hungarian, Thai, Urdu, Bengali, Swahili, Amharic, Khmer and many more. Hebrew and Farsi, advertised but missing, are back.
Every credit pack purchase now comes with a proper invoice, attached to your account and listed in your history. Promo codes are accepted at checkout.
When no speech is detected, the editor no longer stops: pick a language and write your subtitles on the empty track.
Pro now takes 3-hour videos (2 before), and files up to 2 GB upload without a hitch on Pro and Business. Studio 2.0 opens instantly, even on those long videos.
Editor, reviewer or viewer: choose what each person can do. Videos shared with you get their own section on Home, and the avatars in the top bar show who is working on the same video right now.
Cmd+F now replaces too. Replace every match at once, after confirming how many subtitles are affected; one Cmd+Z undoes the lot. Matches spanning several words are flagged, never changed blindly.
Cmd+Z undoes any gesture: a keystroke, a split across every language, a replace-all. Cmd+Shift+Z brings it back. And the history survives a page reload.
Font, size, colours, outline, position: twelve ready-made styles plus your own, saved. Drag a subtitle on the video to place it. The preview is the final render: the burned-in export uses exactly the same style. Burned-in export included in Pro and Business.
Open several languages at once: each active language becomes a column aligned with the original. Add one with the + button, with its own translation rules. Splitting a segment splits every language at once, and undoes in one step.
Group your videos and give them shared rules: per-language translation rules, context, glossary. Every video inherits them. Filter Home by project, move a video between projects from its menu. Included in Pro and Business.
The app now comes in French and in English. Switch from the sidebar, or in Settings, Appearance and language.
Every new video opens in the new studio at hello8.ai. Your existing videos stay in the previous one and migrate one at a time, whenever you decide. Inside: instant opening even on long videos, projects, languages side by side, subtitle styling, and the app in French.