Release notes 3.1.0
Release date: 6th August 2022
Summary
This page highlights all the changes, new features and bugs addressed within the LumenVox Containers version 3.1.0 release. This change affects both Speech and Voice biometric products however voice biometric changes are not for general release.
Highlights
Update of the ASR engine providing improved accuracy and performance
Included are the following ASR languages: Dutch; English: All dialects including US, UK, Indian, Australian, and NZ; French: All dialects including European and Canadian; German; Italian; Portuguese: All dialects including European and Brazilian; Russian; Spanish: All dialects including Castilian (European), Mexican, and Latin American; Swiss German.
Optimized audio streaming methods added
Improvements to container multi-tenancy
An admin portal is now available for cluster administrators to manage deployments, configurations and run diagnostic tests
Various bugs identified in version 3.0.0 are resolved
Integration of new DNN engine for voice biometrics and vb containers moved into speech stack
Refactoring Biometric engine configuration
Database configuration changes & updates to config handler
Binary storage changes to support data archiving
License service updates
Improvements to session manager and cleanup of session data
What’s new on LumenVox Cloud 3.1.0
New Features
Optimized audio streaming methods added
New administration web portal is now available for cluster administrators to manage deployments, configurations and run diagnostics
Updates
Improvements have been made to the following:
ASR engine performance and accuracy
Multi-tenancy functionality
The new DNN engine for voice biometrics and vb containers have been moved into the speech stack
Biometric engine configurations have been refactored
Database configuration has been changed & updates made to the configuration handler
Binary storage changes made to support data archiving
License service updates
Improvements made to session manager and cleanup of session data. This should assist with the cleanup of redis data
Bug fixes
Various including issues with the following:
UTF-8 encoding issues resolved
SessionManager crash with RedisClient
Error response messages were standardized
stream_start_time was not configurable
Installation notes
The following helm chart can be used
Note that cache must be deleted
Upgrade procedures
Upgrade or migration from versions 1.x ,version 2.x are not supported. Version 3.1.0 must be a fresh install. Version 3.0.0 can be upgraded to version 3.1.0 by updating the protobuf files, all existing grammar cache files must be deleted prior to upgrade.
NOTES
Certain API names have also changed:
AudioSteamCreate is now called AudioCreate
AudioStream is new and used to stream audio into system
AudioStreamPush is now called AudioPush
AudioStreamPull is now called AudioPull
VADMessage.audio_stream_offset is now called VADMessage.audio_offset
ASR output
Note that the ASR output has changed from uppercase to lowercase.
Updated API guide
Further information can be obtained here:
LumenVox Containers API documentation