Release 2.0.1; January 27th, 2025

  • Feature Dashboard uploads are now available in both iOS and Android SDKs via KASRUploader/KIOSUploader classes and queueForUpload method in KASRResponse/KIOSResponse classes
  • Enhancement on Android, KASRBundle API for copying assets does not require listing all the assets in the ASR Bundle directory
  • Bugs fix for StopListening not working properly when VAD gating is used
  • Bugs fix for a crash on older Android devices during computation of pronunciation scores in the final result
  • Bugs fix for a crash on some 32-bit Android devices when KASRResponse is finalized or SaveAudio method is called on the KASRResponse instance

Release 2.0; December 9th, 2024

Release 2.0 is a major upgrade across iOS and Android platforms including numerous new features and bug fixes.

  • Feature The KeenASR SDK provides language support for German and French, in addition to English (adults and children models) and Spanish.
  • Feature Support for goodness of pronunciation scoring for English langauge ASR Bundle
  • Feature Support for contextual decoding graphs
  • Feature Support for providing alternative pronunciations for decoding graphs. Alternative pronunciations can be used to model: a) pronunciations of words not in lexicon (including made up words), b) common mispronunciations
  • Feature Robust model for out-of-vocabulary words (“<SPOKEN_NOISE>” word)
  • Feature Support for control of <SPOKEN_NOISE> probability when creating decoding graphs, providing ways to be more or less strict with accents and mispronunciations

  • Feature Support for x86_64 ABI on Android (relevant for support of Chrome OS on Chromebooks with Intel CPU)

  • Enhancement Various optimizations for decoding graph creation time
  • Enhancement Decoupled json/audio file management from Dashboard uploads
  • Enhancement Consistent API and behavior across all supported platforms