Category: Middle East Zone

• March 27, 2024

  YuJa SmartSpeaker Add-On Platform – April 2024

  Australia Zone Canada Zone European Union Zone Middle East Zone United States Zone YuJa SmartSpeaker AI Platform

  We have successfully pushed an update to all YuJa SmartSpeaker Add-On Platform instances residing in the United States, Canada, European Union, and Australia.

  1. Smart Speaker: New Voice Settings and Real-Time Text Highlighting of Active Spoken Section
     Smart Speakers now offers a variety of text-to-speech voices, with options to adjust the reading speed, volume, and highlight color.
     
• March 8, 2024

  YuJa SmartSpeaker Add-On Platform – March 2024

  Australia Zone Canada Zone European Union Zone Middle East Zone United States Zone YuJa SmartSpeaker AI Platform

  We have successfully launched a new add-on to all YuJa Panorama Platform instances residing in the US, Canada, Australia, Singapore, the Middle East, and the European Union.

  1. New Tool! Smart Speaker Website Provides Text-to-Speech Functionality Embedded Directly Within Websites
     Panorama’s Smart Speaker provides text-to-speech functionality to users with visual impairments or learning disabilities, enabling them to access digital content on any website.
     
• March 5, 2024

  YuJa Enterprise Video Platform Update – “Cashew” Released to CA, AU, EU, ME, AP Zones

  Australia Zone Canada Zone Enterprise Video Platform European Union Zone Middle East Zone Singapore Zone

  We have successfully pushed an update to all Enterprise Video Platform instances residing in Canada, Australia, Middle East, Asia and the European Union. The highlights for this update include new protocols to support metadata harvesting enabling interoperable search, real-time recording updates for active Software Captures, creating exceptions for groups to access suites, a new option to select Verbit for closed captioning,  assigning specific sub-admins to manage captions and generative AI, user provisioning and SSO integration for our Umbrella System,  and so much more.

  
  

  1. Full Open Archives Initiative (OAI) Support Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Enabling Interoperable Search
     We are introducing a new set of APIs that can retrieve relevant metadata to identify direct video links. Institutions can leverage this retrieved metadata to optimize their internal search engines and locate videos imported from the Video Platform onto their websites. For more information, please visit sections 5.2.47 – 5.2.51 on our YuJa API guide.
     
  2. New Real-Time Recording Status Updates for Active Software Captures
     New Thumbnail Placeholder provides real-time updates to the activity status of an active Software Capture session. Available now are Pause, Recording, Processing, and Uploading states. Coming soon with Software Capture Version 14.2 are Stalled and Failed states to inform the user when, perhaps, their computer enters Sleep Mode.
     
  3. Umbrella System – Institution-Level View and Provisioning of Courses & Groups
     To improve support for large university and community college systems operating with a single Video Platform instance, School Admins who manage an individual institution will only see their institution’s courses within the Courses & Groups tab.
     
  4. Umbrella System – Ability to Establish Single Sign-On Integrations for Individual Institutions within an Umbrella System
     Umbrella System now enables multi-campus institutions to establish independent Single Sign-On tools for each campus within an Umbrella System.
  5. Create Custom Exceptions for User Group Access to Available Product Suites
     Administrators can choose to override role-based access to Product Suites for desired groups. By adding exceptions for specific groups, all members within those groups gain access to their assigned suites, regardless of their individual roles.
     
  6. Enhanced UI for the Admin Panel Devices Pop-Out Menu
     We have updated the pop-out menu for devices with a more modern UI design. Each setting is now organized within a dedicated section allowing administrators to easily locate their desired settings.
     
  7. Assign Specific Sub-Admins to Manage Captions and Generative AI Tools
     Administrators can now customize captioning and generative AI permissions, granting specific sub-admins access to these tools.
     
  8. Verbit: Branded Closed Captioning Provider Within the Video Platform
     We’ve partnered with Verbit for years, however we’ve recently added a new direct interface to Verbit. With our new partnership, our goal is to continue to offer our customers extensive choices in their captioning provider.
     
  9. Password Reset for Inactive Users Before Reactivation
     Administrators have the option to require users who haven’t accessed the Video platform within a specified number of months to reset their password when attempting to log into the Video Platform.
  10. Bulk-Add IP Addresses to the Security Settings for Media Content
      Content Creators seeking to restrict access to their media across a broad range of IP addresses can create a single list of addresses to add to their security settings.
      
  11. Integrate a Secondary Zoom Account with the Video Platform
      For institutions with a secondary Zoom enterprise license, they now have the option to integrate this secondary account with the Video Platform instance. This will allow the secondary account to import users to the Video Platform while the primary account will still have full access to all integration settings.
      
  12. Enhanced Single Sign-On Security by Automatically Assigning a Fingerprint Value
      The Video Platform ensures secure user logins by automatically assigning a fingerprint value if none was added during SSO SAML integration. Administrators can also add a secondary fingerprint for enhanced security in case the primary one becomes invalid.
  13. Improved Search Accuracy When Locating Media Content
      The Video Platforms media search bar has been improved to provide more accurate search results for media content and faster load times when displaying results.
      
  14. New APIs to Retrieve Media Content Information and Create Placeholder Thumbnails
      We have added new APIs to retrieve information related to media content and the option to create placeholder thumbnails. To learn how to use these and any of our other APIs, please visit our API Support guide.
      • Retrieve Platform ID for Scheduled Recording: Updated the API to include the platform ID related to upcoming scheduled events (API guide section 4.2.6).
      • Retrieve Folders for Groups: Returns a list of folders a group has access to (API guide section 3.2.11).
      • Create a Placeholder Thumbnail: Creates a placeholder thumbnail for a scheduled session in a specified folder (API guide section 4.2.8).