Chitralekha v4.0

1. Translation-Voiceover Edit: Implement a new task type combining both translation and voiceover editing stages into a single task.
2. Paraphrased Transcription Editing: Implement an additional stage in transcription editing task where ML-generated paraphrased transcription can be edited to enable getting better output from the translation model.
3. Redesign transcription, translation and voiceover editing UIs.
4. Implement 'Find & Replace' for the entire set of subtitles for a video.
5. Glossary application for retranslation and current task.
6. Reopen translation-voiceover task.
7. Reopen transcription-edit task.
8. Regenerate translation-voiceover task.
9. Bookmark a segment for a user.
10. Add date filter to all the reports.
11. Add 'Download' option for all the reports.
12. Add a new video player to play the videos in case of any issues with YouTube library yt-dlp.
13. Implement support for multiple organization owners for an organization.
14. Optimize auto-save and voiceover/translation regeneration calls.
15. Access control for the endpoints.
16. Consider user's language during task creation from the project page.
17. Resend invites to users who haven't accepted the previous invite.
18. Handle issues related to case-sensitive login IDs.
19. Allow adding an already existing video to another project.
20. Admin panel changes to easily filter the tasks based on its video name and task ID.
21. Admin page to ease the support process: Easily fetch the details of any video or a task.
22. Include translation-voiceover task type in reports.
23. Email formatting changes.
24. Display appropriate error messages for issues with login credentials.
25. Optimize time spent API.
26. Handle audio timestamp errors and other corner cases which arise during completion of a voiceover task.
27. Display a comparison of machine-generated vs. user's version for transcription and translation tasks to the organization owners.

Chitralekha v3.1

Features as part of the latest release :

1. Bulk Download of VoiceOver Tasks -> Zip file will be emailed to the users.
2. Bug fix in decimal points in Translation Tasks.
3. OnBoarding functionality for new clients.
4. Enable Original Source Translation.
5. User can Preview subtitles in Edit Page.

Chitralekha v3.0

Critical features as part of this release :

1. Local implementation of Transliteration
2. Users can add and view glossary
3. Their added glossary will be automatically replaced in newly created Translation Edit tasks
4. Org Owners can upload bulk glossary
5. Sorted filter list
6. Added skip tutorial functionality
7. Description of video as name of file downloaded by NPTEL
8. Made get updated audio button disabled instead of hiding it
9. Countdown for remaining time while recording VO task
10. Testimonials in landing page
11. Public Charts in landing page
12. Show decimal values in VoiceOver's duration

Chitralekha v2.8

• Paginate Reports at Organisation and Project Level.
• In case of Machine Generated Source type, if Transcription/Translation API fails, Org Owner/Project Manager can regenerate the response.
• Show Project Id in Projects list.
• Org Owners can clone a project into multiple projects (max. 20)
• Task Id and Project Id is shown in Reports.
• Organization specific priority upgrade
• Org Owner and Project Manager can update roles of members.

Chitralekha v2.7 Release

• Retained the filters in task list.
• Newsletter new UI with separate Write and Preview screens
• Enable preview for html files uploaded in template 3.
• Org Owner would not have org owner permission if he is a member of project and not org owner.
• User can update newsletter email and newsletter categories that they are subscribed to.
• Clear Report table when project is changed
• Return to task list after completion of a task.
• Snackbar showing up in the background in Video Update (issue fix)
• Added category and preview for all the three templates.
• Newsletter Subject is made customisable.

Chitralekha v2.6 Release

Critical changes in v2.6 Release :

• BG music enabled from FE.
• Add button in Newsletter -> To add multiple headers and paragraphs in a single template.
• Subscribed User can unsubscribe or update their emails in their profile section.
• Users can unsubscribe directly from the Newsletter email.
• Sort Tasks list by created_at, updated_at, description in ascending and descending order(Be default sorting is done by updated_at in descending oder.)
• Fix in Update multi speaker Info in video Update.
• Support for exporting additional subtitle format in sbv, TTML, scc, rt
• Send Newsletters immediately.
• All NPTEL users have been subscribed to newsletter.
• Subscript/superscript for VoiceOver as well.
• Enable email for users who have already subscribed to daily mails.
• Label changes for unsubscribe and update email.
• Toggle for subscription have been removed. It will happen through buttons.

Chitralekha v2.5 Release

Changes as part of v2.5

1. Accept multiple speaker info in video update.
2. Back ground music shifted to a new server
3. New Scheduled Tasks:
   (Org owner email notifictations -> for new joinees to the organization
   ETA email notifications -> To all users, reminder ETA mails)
4. Return info of empty cards in Transcription and Translation
5. Reopen Translation Task
6. Newsletter -> Users can subscribe to newsletter(in their profile page) and get updates from our end.
7. Move multiple cards simultaneously
8. Bug fix in Bulk Task Update
9. Removed "Original Source" option for the subtitles.

Chitralekha v2.4

• Search by Task Id in Tasks tab.
• ETA in CSV upload (This field needs to be added in the end. The accepted format is DD-MM-YYYY. The ETA date should be greater than current date).
• Show Task queue status separately for Transcription/Translation/VoiceOver.
• Show "Updated At" in Column selector of Tasks table.
• Show description by default in tasks Table for NPTEL.
• Fix for Preview not showing the subtitles for completed tasks.
• Color of the selected text changed.
• Shortcut keys changed for few cases.
• Focus issue for the selected card.

Chitralekha v2.3

• Back ground music integration with the target translated video
• Add Source Type Original Source for Translation. (Create Translation from YouTube caption. In this case, Transcription Edit should not be created.)
• Support for Superscript/subscript in transcription and translation
• Introduce Keyboard Shortcuts for performing actions on edit window.
• Info of wrong timestamps in Transcription
• Reopen already completed Translation. (If a VO task already exists, users will have to manually delete that before it can be reopened)
• Invite multiple members in organisation.
• Hide Add Org Member Button for project Manager.
• Search with name or email id in members list of project, while adding members.
• Incorrect behaviour of the options in settings fixed.

Chitralekha v2.2

Credits : Special thanks to the NPTEL team for providing valuable feedback in improving the platform.

• Migrate to Dhruva for IndicASR.
• Find and replace for partial words.
• Auto logout when page is idle.
• Info button to show sentences with time issues in Translation.
• Info button to show empty audios in VoiceOver.
• Time spent metric for every task
• Page mix up issue fix
• Manually created Voice-Over fixes.
• Make export Async (Send link in email for mp3 and wav. flac can be downloaded instantly)
• Fixes in Machine Generated VO. (Call serial TTS API )