Spokestack ASR, Improved Error Messages, Partial ASR Results

• New Spokestack ASR speech pipeline component
• Improved error messages that include error description instead of enum index
• ASR components deliver partial transcript results via new optional recognizedPartial API
• stopSpeaking API for TTS

Internal VAD improvements

13.1.4

release 13.1.4

Fix for Apple ASR sending two recognize events

Also improves the performance of tflite wakeword encoder.

Fix com.apple.coreaudio.avfaudio error -10868 in AppleSpeechRecognizer

13.1.2

release 13.1.2

fix duplicate double recognize/deactivate events; restore timeout event in AppleSpeechRecognizer

13.1.1

release 13.1.1

Fix tracing in pipeline builder and correct tracing bug in TFLiteWakewordRecognizer

• fix bug in pipeline builder that prevented tracing level from being set
• fix incorrect equality check for some TFLiteWakeword tracing

SpeechContext is required in the SpeechPipeline stages constructor

13.0.0

release 13.0.0

New Speech Pipeline featuring stage components and configuration profiles

This is a major release that features:

1. Testability for previously under-tested components
2. The pipeline utilizes stages that are completely configurable
3. The pipeline may be instantiated from a set of profiles that encapsulate configuration complexity

See https://www.spokestack.io/docs/iOS/speech-pipeline for how to utilize the new stages and profiles!

Clients are no longer required to declare use_frameworks! in their Podfile.

fix: update filter_audio dep to 0.5.0 to fix the cocoapods warning: The Swift pod depends upon , which does not define modules.

feat: Clients are no longer required to declare use_frameworks! in their Podfile.

feat: llvm can optimize Spokestack framework loading as a static library.

Faster NLU classification with additional slot information

feat: nlu classification result includes raw input in slot
feat: nlu classification output included all slots defined by the classified intent

refactor: remove wakePhrases from SpeechConfiguration
refactor: set default for nluMaxTokenLength to 50 for objc interop

fix: NLU returns an empty slot instead of crashing