This release updates the language packs for German and Dutch. It also adds metadata tags for profanities in English in the JSON output
It is recommended that customers on previous releases upgrade to this version.
The legacy V1 API that the Batch Virtual Appliance currently supports will be discontinued in the near future. We will align the product with the same V2 API used by the Speechmatics SaaS: https://asr.api.speechmatics.com/v2/docs. We recommend that customers familiarise themselves with the configuration object used to specify job configurations, and also prepare to integrate to the V2 API. The configuration object in V2 is a superset of the configuration object in V1, so you can start to adopt it now to minimise required integration changes.
The following issues are addressed since the previous release:
| Issue ID | Summary | Resolution Description |
|---|---|---|
| REQ-15418 | Custom dictionary with splitting characters gets incorrect pronunciation | When using words with splitting characters in a Custom Dictionary (for example covid-19) where a number follows a word we now have the correct pronunciations created. Splitting characters include ["-", "_", "/", "<", ">", ":", " "]. This is for all languages |
| REQ-11426 | When there are two speakers in German, the second speaker is sometimes not transcribed | This is now resolved in the latest German release |
| REQ-11960 | Transcripts are blank for some German audio files | This is now resolved in the latest German release |
| REQ-12791 | Some German numbers are not transcribed accurately or are missing | This is now resolved in the latest German release |
| REQ-12792 | Some German transcripts are missing words | This has now been resolved in the latest German release |
| REQ-15870 | In the global english language pack the word "check" with British output locale is always transcribed as "cheque" | This is now fixed in the English language pack |
The following are known issues in this release:
| Issue ID | Summary | Detailed Description and Possible Workarounds |
|---|---|---|
| REQ-1409 | Proteus HCL with <unk> causes out of memory error | A custom dictionary list that contains the word ' |
| REQ-7549 | Memory leak affecting gRPC | There is a small memory leak in the gRPC Python server (https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/5913). |
| REQ-10160 | Advanced punctuation for Spanish (es) does not contain inverted marks. | Inverted marks [ ¿ ¡ ] are not currently available for Spanish advanced punctuation. |
| REQ-10627 | Double full stops when acronym is at the end of the sentence | If there is an acronym at the end of the sentence, then a double full stop will be output, for example: "team G.B.." |
| REQ-11135 | 3.2.0 introduced unwanted hesitations in transcripts for English (en). | Due to changes in the way that training data is now ingested to improve the accuracy of spontaneous speech for English (en) there is a greater likelihood that hesitations will be included in the output transcrtips. We plan to support a hesitation filtering capability in a future release for customers that do not want to see hesitations on transcripts. |
| REQ-14402 | When running very large numbers of small jobs (<10 seconds) offline, this may cause some of the jobs to be rejected | If you encounter this issue, please ensure licensing is in offline mode when running the appliance offline |
Virtual Appliance image (OVA) for installation on:
See the Installation and Admin Guide for details on the minimum specifications for the VM. The maximum number of concurrent jobs (maxworkers) that you can run on a single appliance is 30.
| Variant | Image Size | Max. Disk Space | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|
| nano | 12GB | 40GB | en |
| mini | 19GB | 40GB | en, de, es |
| midi | 37GB | 60GB | en, de, es, fr, ko, ja, nl, pt |
| maxi | 64GB | 80GB | en, de, es, fr, ko, ja, nl, pt, it, da, pl, ca, hi, ru, sv |
| plus | 65GB | 80GB | en, cmn, no, ar, bg, cs, el, fi, hu, hr, lt, lv, ro, sk, sl, tr, ms |
Remove the license from your old appliance (see the Admin Guide), then re-import the new OVA and configure networking as per the Installation and Admin guide. You will need to re-apply the license code you have once the OVA has imported.
Upload the OVA to VMWare ESX, VMWare Workstation Player, or VirtualBox. See the Installation and Admin Guide for more information.