WeDispatch 1.7.2: a screen only offers what your plan actually opens
The voice catalogue matches the audio tier in service, accessibility aids included from Premium present themselves as such, and the statement template only lists what is genuinely running on your account.
A release given over to a simple requirement: that a setting on display is a setting that applies, and that an option shown on screen matches what your plan contains. Less spectacular than a new feature, and it is what separates a dashboard you believe from a dashboard you have to double-check.
The voice catalogue is your tier's catalogue
The "Voice & reading" screen now shows exactly the voices your audio tier produces. The choice you save is the one applied to your next articles, without exception: the screen and the generation read from the same source.
Two practical consequences. If you change tier, a voice kept from the previous one is no longer offered under the new one, it gives way to the default voice of the tier in service, rather than being held for an engine that does not know it. And signature voices, the ones we clone at your request, only appear on the accounts that genuinely read with them, since they exist only at the premium provider.
If you are on a standard tier and want a premium voice on one particular article, the path is unchanged: the regeneration button in "My audio", article by article, at the published rate.
Accessibility: what switches on, and what is added
The Accessibility screen lists the eight aids we provide on the player, each with its RGAA or WCAG reference. Some switch on with a toggle; others are included from the Premium plan onwards. Those two situations call for different actions and now look different: the second kind carries the Premium badge used everywhere else in the dashboard, with a direct link to the plan change, and the header separates what is still yours to decide from what the higher tier brings.
The point that matters most sits one notch below. This page produces an accessibility statement template, the item most public buyers ask for. That template now lists only the aids genuinely in service on your account. An aid belonging to a plan you do not hold appears neither in the count on screen nor in the generated text. An accessibility statement is only worth having if it is accurate: it is signed, it can be held against you, and an auditor will check it against the live player.
"PDF to audio" and "Image descriptions" fall under two different regimes, and the screen now says so without ambiguity: the first is open on every plan, the second is included from Premium onwards.
Trial listening plays the tier you asked for
Trial listening, which lets you compare audio tiers before choosing, now produces one of two outcomes only: the voice of the tier you asked for, or a message saying the sample is momentarily unavailable. No silent substitution. Comparing two tiers only means something if you are certain you are hearing two tiers, and the samples already on file have been renewed so that this holds from today.
Under the hood
Nine automated checks were added, ninety-nine in total. They cover both behaviour (which tier, which voice retained, which aid counted) and the code itself: a screen can no longer fall back to a voice list disconnected from the tier in service, nor count a locked aid among the aids in place. In keeping with version 1.7.1, the principle is the same: whatever is declared in one place must be verifiable in another.
What this changes for you
Nothing to do. If you are on a Starter plan, the Voice screen now shows you your tier's voices, a different list from the one you were looking at, and the one that will actually be read. If you have already generated an accessibility statement from your dashboard, generate it again: the new version mentions only what is running on your account.
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