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What’s new in The Stellar Suite V7.3? – Released Sunday 3rd August

Discover what's new in The Stellar Suite V7.3

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On Sunday Yella Umbrella will release the latest V7.3 version The Stellar Suite – a complete set of tools to Create, Convert, Automate and Manage all forms of Subtitling, Captions, AD, Dubbing & Timed Text.

The Stellar Suite includes all the tools to create and manage the entire localization process. Combine manual operations with AI assistance and automated workflows. Improve your productivity and automate the repetitive tasks to allow your team to focus their creativity where it’s most needed.

What’s new in The Stellar Suite V7.3:

  • Stellar CREATE  – All forms of localization and access services in a single tool
    • New – Compliance and timed metadata capture.
      • Markup media with timed tags for compliance, viewer ratings and QC.
      • Use centralised Tag lists to standardise outputs
      • Use standard Tags to mark up subtitle, AD and dubbing files for QC and reviewer feedback
    • New – Improved synthetic voice interface.
      • Now with voices from Deepdub with accent selection
        • Have even more control over how voices sound
      • Instant voice to voice morphing.
        • One click recording then your voice is transformed into the selected voice while maintaining timing and emotion – in seconds
      • New – Phonetic dictionaries
        • Set the exact pronunciation for words using the Phonetic Dictionaries. Use normal or phonetic alphabets
      • Cast voices from any supplier in your dubbing task.
        • Use the new Casting screen to review, test and assign voices for each Role in your dubbing task
        • Share casting across multiple episodes and series
      • Stretch or Squeeze audio takes to fit timing requirements
        • Automatic and manual audio Stretch and Squeeze controls
    • Improved handling for all Teletext display settings
    • Improved style and colour editing controls.
    • Improved user dashboard
      • Customise the sections you want with auto resizing
      • Quick buttons for creating a new Task and for adding Media
    • Improved network status and warnings
      • Know instantly if you have an internet connection issue
    • New formatting options for multiple or all subtitles in a single action
    • Add Style Profiles when dragging and dropping files into Stellar Create.
  • Stellar MANAGE – Tasks, Media, Users and User Groups – Manage all your work anywhere any time.
    • Create and control central resources across all users in our company
      • Spelling Dictionaries
      • Phonetic Dictionaries
      • Metadata tag lists
    • Control automatic deletion of media and tasks
      • Stay in control of your cloud storage and costs
    • Improved user onboarding
      • Add multiple users from a list or CSV file
  • Stellar AUTOMATE  – Media Ingest, Workflows, AI Integration, Audio Mixing, Encoding and Delivery
    • Create a dubbing script automatically with Speech to Text.
      • AI service automatically assigns dialog to each speaker, just add the correct character names
    •  Larger range video resolution on media ingest.

All the new features are covered in the Help Manual.

Full release notes here


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