# Updates

{% updates format="full" %}
{% update date="2026-02-23" %}

## ElevenLabs SSML Pauses

Some of our clients have noticed the buggy behaviour in some ElevenLabs models that skipped pauses between paragraphs.

That has been fixed.

Now we will enforce SSML Pauses between paragraphs, so that your articles sound more natural.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-02-18" %}

## Audio Artifacts

Some of audio chunks from gemini vertex with default codec linear16 use some meta bytes at start of file, after converting this by ffmpeg it was some noise.

![](/files/vp3pRMkdgWJeY0Eth1f5)\
We fixed the encoding issue.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-02-17" %}

## data-url parameter in Player

By default our player will search for an audio version of the current URL.

To override this behaviour you can use `data-url`in the player embed code to explicitly specify the source URL for parsing the article.

{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-02-12" %}

## Gemini Prompt in Audio Rules

You can define the Audio Rule including Gemini Prompt now

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Please note that it only works with Gemini Vertext Models.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-02-12" %}

## Audification Fallback

Newer Google Gemini models - when using non-enterprise ready API - experience censorship issues.

The article may return 500 error in this case.

We introduced an automatic fallback to Google Gemini Vertex API for those articles.

When this does not work - another fallback is possible - to an ElevenLabs voice.&#x20;
{% endupdate %}
{% endupdates %}


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