WeDispatch 1.5.5: hear it before you choose it
A reading tier is chosen by ear, not from a description. This version lets you hear every reading quality on the same sentence, opens the sovereign tier from the Premium plan, and announces it rather than offering it while its promise is not yet whole.
Choosing a reading quality from a paragraph of description means choosing a voice you have never heard. This version fixes that, and takes the opportunity to set two other things straight: who the sovereign tier is for, and at what point it becomes honest to offer it.
A trial listen on every tier, with the same sentence
From the "Audio engine" card in your account, a button now plays each reading tier. The sentence is deliberately identical across all three: what you are comparing must be the reading, not the text being read. It is calibrated to expose what actually separates two voices (liaisons, a decimal number, a percentage, an em dash, a date) rather than a neutral greeting on which everyone sounds much the same.
The trial is offered on tiers your plan does not open, too. That is deliberate: hearing before deciding whether it is worth changing plan is precisely what a trial is for. Restricting it to those who already have access would only offer it to those who no longer need it.
One point of candour along the way: when two tiers are served by the same voice, the sample would be rigorously identical. We do not manufacture a second listen to suggest a difference that is not there, we offer one, and we write down why.
The sovereign tier will open from the Premium plan
It was reserved for Enterprise. The original reasoning held up: a sovereignty requirement usually comes with a negotiated contract. Practice showed otherwise. It is mid-sized newsrooms and public bodies that ask for it, and they are on Premium. Keeping the option behind a custom quote meant charging a sales cycle for a setting that switches on in one click, and that costs us no more to serve.
The tier is therefore now aimed at the Premium and Enterprise plans, at no extra cost. The pricing pages, the detailed comparison, the plan-change screen and the security page all say the same thing, in both languages.
It is announced, not yet offered, and that is on purpose
The sovereign tier promises a European processing chain end to end. The text already is, with no technical fallback elsewhere: a generation fails rather than leaving Europe. The reading is not there yet, for want of a European voice engine at the quality level we require.
We could have opened the option and written the caveat in small print. We chose the opposite. The card stays visible in your account, the promise is real and the work is under way, but greyed out, marked "soon", with the reason written right below it. An option you switch on only to discover it does not quite do what it says costs more in trust than an option you wait for.
The date it opens will not be set by a calendar. It is tied to the actual state of the chain: the day the reading is processed in the European Union, the tier will open by itself, on the Premium and Enterprise plans, with nothing to adjust and no reminder to find again. It is the same principle we have applied for several versions now: a rule based on what the reading actually does, never on the name of a tier, cannot quietly go stale.
What it changes for you today
You can listen to the reading tiers before choosing, in both interface languages. If you are on Premium, the sovereign tier is meant for you, and you will see it open where you would look for it: in your account, with no sales process in between.
And if you have been following this particular piece of work closely, the best news in this version may be this one: the only thing still standing between us and a fully European chain is the voice.
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