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Release log.

Every major iteration of Orator, newest first. Orator is still in active development, so the latest version is a pre-release. We version what we build and keep working within the version line.

Versioned, not dated. The number is the reference.

0.6.0Theme galleryLatest

A full gallery of distinct, professional slide themes, each checked for accessible contrast.

  • Ten distinct presentation themes plus a clean plain baseline, so your videos do not all look alike.
  • Editorial and Swiss typographic styles join the set, each visually its own.
  • Every theme self-tests against WCAG AA contrast before it can ship a slide.
0.5.0The design system

Slides stopped being an afterthought and became a real design system.

  • A structured slide model turns each section of your document into a deliberate layout instead of a wall of text.
  • Built-in writing checks trim cliches, redundancy, and overlong headlines as slides are generated.
  • A theme contract and registry keep every theme consistent and accessible by construction.
0.4.0Slides that cite their sources

Slides gained real structure and properly credited imagery.

  • A clear authoring format for terms, definitions, and section frames, validated before any video is built.
  • A licensed-image pipeline that pulls from open sources and embeds the correct credit automatically.
  • Accessible term-and-definition slide templates with readable type and color-safe palettes.
0.3.0Speaks it right

The narration learned to pronounce the hard parts.

  • A phonetics layer so acronyms and technical terms are spoken naturally instead of spelled out wrong.
  • Long documents split cleanly into per-section micro-lectures with a batch renderer.
0.2.0The pipeline

The four-stage path from document to finished video came together.

  • Parse your markdown into sections, narrate each in your cloned voice, render slides from the same source, and compose a final MP4.
  • Each slide holds for exactly the length of its narration.
0.1.0First build

Where it began.

  • Initial scaffolding for a local document-to-video tool: your voice, your content, your machine.