RecentChanges

Features in 1.1:

• much better coverage by unit tests
• availability of alternative input sources including Google-ASR, cmp. Kennington et al., 2014: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-26815107
• SimpleReco also accepts paths if you fail to provide a URL
• iRR: New Incremental Reference Resolution (NLU) modules for NGRAMs and RMRS. Included is Pentomino data for training and evaluation.
• WordSpotter module that can send IUs when specified WordIUs are found.
• SimpleReco also accepts Robotics Service Bus (RSB) audio streaming: https://code.cor-lab.org/projects/rsb
• arch: new generic IU-network navigation facilities (pending documentation...)
• arch: much improved IUUpdateListener performance, reduce amount of spurious calls to notifyListeners
• iSS: update MaryTTS to 5.1
• iSS: much improved incremental speech synthesis which performs most work incrementally now, plus a few fixes that previously deteriorated synthesis quality
• iSS: IU timings coming from SynthesisModule now reflect time since startup (rather than starting at 0 for every utterance)
• iSS: pre-synthesis now actually works as intended
• iSS: SynthesisModule now supports prosody-markup
• iSS: support for higher-sampled voices (16k)
• iSS FIX: IUs can now be synthesized multiple times (previously this degraded their performance; still, please consider to create new IUs instead of re-synthesizing)
• iSR: add a G2P-model so that lexical coverage is no longer a problem
• iSR: update Sphinx to new interfaces since 4-5prealpha (already in sphinx4-5prealpha branch)
• iSR: fire update messages when phoneme timings change
• FIX: lots of bug fixes all over the place

Features in 1.0:

• FIX (actually, in Sphinx-4): Sphinx-4 has been fixed to support XML ENTITY definitions which are used in InproTK configurations. This means that configuration files don't need to be located relative to the working directory anymore (which was a very frequently asked question). Yay.
• FIX: SimpleReco: grammar switch works without assertions (i.e., also for English)
• ENHANCEMENT: Inpro_iSS now supports revocation of PhraseIUs

Features in 0.9:

• fully incremental speech recognition (based on Sphinx-4) for German and English (and more)
• fully incremental speech synthesis (based on Mary 3 or 4, at your choice) for German and English (and more)
• lots more