Improved
Alerts, right above your subtitles
What's left to fix now shows right above your subtitles: speech without subtitles, subtitles that are too long, missing translations, hesitations. One click takes you there.
Changelog
Everything we ship, as we ship it.
- New
AI Check-up: free, in seconds
In a few seconds, the AI Check-up counts for free what is left to clean up (repetitions, false starts, hesitations). Reveal them as comments for 2 credits per minute, or go further with the AI Reviewer, even more precise and thorough.
- Improved
Translation review now checks meaning too
Meaning used to be a separate review, ticked and paid on top. It is now included: tick “Translation” in the AI Reviewer and each subtitle is also compared with the source (a name or number changed, a passage dropped or added, a mistranslation). More value, faster, for 5 credits per minute instead of 10.
- New
See who reviewed what
The studio has a new panel, Review tracking: for each track, the share of segments at least one person has reviewed. Three measures, each with its own bar: video watched (playback passes through the subtitle, or someone clicks inside it), subtitle on screen for at least five seconds, subtitle edited. A review counts for the version reviewed: a subtitle changed since needs another look. Stretches nobody has reviewed are listed, and one click takes the video there. With Pro, the owner sees each person's review, and each collaborator sees their own. The AI Reviewer doesn't count here: only human work is measured.
- Improved
Watch the AI Reviewer at work
An AI Reviewer pass can now be followed live. Under the editor, the video is laid out in passages, with each agent's progress (grammar, spelling, punctuation, fidelity) and the corrections found so far. The agents' log tells the pass in sentences, “Fidelity read 04:00 to 08:00: 23 flags”, down to the proposals the validator dropped and why. A finished pass stays viewable from its card in the Activity panel.
- New
Pick the AI Reviewer at upload, and get a report
The AI Reviewer is now picked at upload, with its per-minute rate shown and a summary of what it fixes before you buy. Your first review is free. At the end, a report counts corrections by category, highlights the words that changed rather than whole lines, and each one can be undone in a click.
- New
Share a project, all its videos follow
A project is now shared like a video, and access follows: the person you invite sees every video it holds, including the ones you add later. A role granted on a specific video still wins over the project one, and removing someone from the project removes their access everywhere.
- Improved
Spelled-out numbers become digits
“eighty thousand two hundred thirty-seven” now reads “80,237”, and the conversion happens before reading speed is measured: the subtitle gains in legibility as much as in CPS. The spelling rule lives in the Briefing, per project, and applies to French and English alike.
- New
Retranslate proposes, you decide
“Retranslate this segment” no longer overwrites anything: a popover shows the new version, readable in one go, with “Show changes” for the detail. Apply, reject, or regenerate with an instruction. The proposal waits in the Comments panel until you decide; a subtitle you edited in the meantime is never overwritten, and Cmd+Z undoes the apply.
- Improved
Missing capitals, flagged
Subtitle Health gets a “Capitalization” section: any subtitle that opens a sentence with a lowercase letter, judged on the delivered text, hidden fillers included. Free, permanent, counted in the dock badge. Nothing after an ellipsis, an abbreviation or an initial, nothing on iPhone: it does not cry wolf.
- Improved
The AI Reviewer only re-reads what changed
After a first review, the dialog ticks for you “Only re-read the 3 subtitles changed since the last review”, and the price follows: checking your corrections no longer costs a full pass. And a subtitle made of fillers (“Um, you know, the...”), never flagged until now, gets a deletion proposal: Apply removes it, Cmd+Z brings it back.
- New
A new Home
Videos shared with you now sit in your list, with a pill naming the owner. A “Group” button arranges the page by role, project or tag; in grid view, groups become side-by-side columns, like a board. Each video shows its open comments, and an “AI Reviewer” column says what the review brought: “8 / 12 applied · 4 to handle”, and “View” opens the studio on the suggestions.
- New
Devices signed into your account
In Settings, Account: the devices that signed into your account, with browser, system, city and last seen. Don't recognise one? Change your password.
- New
A bug, an idea? Tell us from inside Hello8
A button in the sidebar and in the studio. Describe it, attach a screenshot or a short clip, and follow each report: received, under review, planned, in progress, delivered. An email at every change.
- New
Invite anyone, account or not
Sharing a video finally emails the person. No Hello8 account yet? The invitation waits: access opens when they sign up, and they land straight on the video. By default they are a reviewer: they comment without changing your subtitles; switch their role in one click. Pending invitations can be revoked from the share dialog.
- New
Tags
Create your own labels, with a colour, and put them on videos from Home, the multi-selection bar or the studio top bar. Filter Home by one or several tags. Renaming or deleting a tag applies everywhere. Included from Starter.
- Improved
Studio 2.0 is out of beta
If you still work in the previous studio, a prompt offers to send your next video to 2.0. Your existing videos stay where they are and migrate when you decide. And if needed, we put a video back in the previous studio: just write to us.
- New
Hello8 now has a changelog
The Briefing that asks the right questions, edits that no longer get lost, invoices inside Hello8: it has been a busy summer. Everything shipped since Studio 2.0 now lives under “What's new” at the bottom of the sidebar, and at hello8.ai/changelog.
- Improved
We tell you before the upload
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.
- New
Your invoices, without leaving Hello8
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.
- Improved
The price of each review, line by line
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.
- Improved
The AI Reviewer hunts hesitations, and says what it could not do
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.
- Improved
Translation that reads your instructions, and warns you if it is incomplete
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.
- Improved
Paste your context, review what we pull out
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.
- Improved
The briefing sheet: every decision, its value, its source
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.
- Fixed
Your edits no longer vanish
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.
- Improved
Your transcript shows up while you wait
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.
- Fixed
What works better since August 7
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.
- New
The AI Reviewer shows what it checked
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.
- New
The Briefing: two minutes of questions, free on every plan
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.
- Improved
Easier on a phone
Sign-up opens as a bottom sheet, and the processing screen shows progress as a readable list instead of truncated steps.
- Improved
A backup engine for transcription
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.
- Improved
Better cuts from the first pass
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.
- Improved
Length is judged per subtitle, in three bands
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.
- New
90 languages
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.
- Improved
An invoice for every credit pack
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.
- New
No speech? Write the subtitles yourself
When no speech is detected, the editor no longer stops: pick a language and write your subtitles on the empty track.
- Improved
Up to 3 hours per video on Pro
Pro now takes 3-hour videos (2 before), and files up to 2 GB upload there without a hitch. Studio 2.0 opens instantly, even on those long videos.
- New
Share with the right role
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.
- New
Find and replace
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.
- New
Undo and redo, across every language
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.
- New
Style your subtitles, then burn them in
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.
- New
Your languages side by side
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.
- New
Projects: one set of rules for all your videos
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.
- New
Hello8 in French, or in English
The app now comes in French and in English. Switch from the sidebar, or in Settings, Appearance and language.
- New
Studio 2.0 is live
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.