Sonarpad

Sonarpad 0.5.0 introduces the new “Create audio description with AI” feature, together with important improvements to media playback, Documents, SonarTube and accessibility. The new “Create audio description with AI” feature can analyse video content and automatically create audio descriptions of visual scenes, helping make films and other visual content more accessible to blind and partially sighted users. Playback speed control has been added for compatible media content. You can choose speeds from 0.5× to 2× for videos, podcasts, audiobooks and other media files. The feature is enabled by default and can be turned off in Settings. SonarTube has been improved with more complete playback management, player controls and navigation between videos, channels and other content. Switching between audio and video modes and the behaviour of the player with VoiceOver have also been improved. Documents now includes a “Select documents” mode, allowing you to select one or more documents, select all items and perform multiple actions such as deleting or sharing. Selection can also be started from VoiceOver secondary actions. Media file management has been improved with new options for joining multiple audio or video files, progress information during operations and the ability to cancel operations in progress. Playback of podcasts, audiobooks and other media content has been improved, with more consistent behaviour when pausing, resuming, switching modes and using player controls. Numerous accessibility improvements have been made for VoiceOver, focus retention, secondary actions, list navigation and control management in native iOS screens. Various issues affecting stability, localisation, media playback and file management have also been fixed.