VDK 4.3.0 - 20th Jan 2023

Summary

We are pleased to introduce VDK 4.3.0 which is a bug-fix and feature release.

In this release we have mainly stabilized the use of phonetics in the Studio.
It is now also possible to specify in the TTS manager when to use or not SSML in the written text.
At last, the logs shown in the Studio now embed also the ones from the Vsdk-daemon and some syntax highlighting has been added to help read them better.

On a side note, C++ samples are now available for direct download with Conan, the C++ package manager. For further information on how to do so, you can read the tutorial How-to: Download, Compile & Run C++ Samples.

Versions

Studio

Component	Version
Studio	4.3.3 UPDATED
Dictionary manager	1.0.5
Free-speech	4.1.4
Grammar editor	4.2.12
Phonetic editor	4.2.1 UPDATED
Project editor	1.17.8 UPDATED
Simple assistant maker	4.0.4
TTS manager	4.4.1 UPDATED
Voice biometrics	4.1.3 UPDATED
Vsdk-daemon	1.6.1 UPDATED

Samples

Component	Version
Chained grammars	4.2.0
Dynamic grammar	4.2.1 UPDATED
Simple application	4.2.0
Tts	4.2.0
Voice biometrics	4.2.1

VSDK (C++)

Component	Version
Vsdk	7.1.4
Vsdk-vasr	3.1.1
Vsdk-csdk	3.1.6
Vsdk-tnl	2.1.1 UPDATED
Vsdk-baratinoo	3.0.6
Vsdk-vtapi	2.1.5
Vsdk-idvoice	3.1.5
Vsdk-tssv	2.0.8 UPDATED
Vsdk-audio-portaudio	2.1.3

VSDK (JAVA)

Component	Version
Vsdk	4.6.1
Vsdk-csdk	4.5.1
Vsdk-tnl	2.5.0
Vsdk-baratinoo	3.3.0
Vsdk-vtapi	2.3.2
Vsdk-idvoice	2.4.0
Vsdk-tssv	2.5.0
Vsdk-vasr	2.0.2

Details

Studio

Bug-fixes:

A plugin installer popup was showing in some corner cases when it shouldn’t have
On Windows, some dialog windows were duplicating the VDK Studio’s general window in the system’s window list
When a plugin is automatically installed, its optional dependencies are not automatically installed as well anymore

Improvements:

Vsdk-daemon’s log is now shown in the studio’s log as well
The logs are now colored for a better readability

Phonetic editor

Improvements:

Internal phonetic alphabet files have been changed to match different languages and voices capabilities

Project editor

Bug-fixes:

Now opens a widget silently after a wizard completion

Tts manager

Improvements:

Offers now the possibility to deactivate SSML interpretation upon text synthesis

Voice biometrics

Bug-fixes:

Add missing pointing hand cursor on delete buttons
Deleting a user could sometimes cause a crash

Vsdk-daemon

Bug-fixes:

Removing a lot of packages at once could cause a crash in some cases
The voice biometrics API was not in sync with the Studio’s calls

Improvements:

Big base 64 data in requests are now elided to improve readability

Samples

Dynamic grammar

Bug-fixes:

The voice recognition’s model name was not the same in the project.vdk file and in the source code

VSDK (C++)

Vsdk-tnl

Improvements:

It is now possible to set a custom out of vocabulary rejection rate dynamically