October 8, 2021

Speechly Dashboard: Updated look of main application listing and SAL configuration view with small usability improvements. Three new example configurations for common use-cases of Voice UIs on the Web.
Speechly Web UI Components: New versions of our UI Components for web developers, including the Push-to-Talk Button, Big Transcript, Transcript Drawer and Error Panel.
Documentation: How Speechly Works - The Video Tutorial Series is a collection of brief introductory videos to help you get started developing with Speechly.

September 6, 2021

Speechly API Improved handling of initial latency when streaming audio to a new app_id, improved handling of client connections.
SLU Engine New Standard Variable and Entity Type for handling (US style) street addresses.
Speechly CLI Tool Version 0.4.2 released.
Browser client Version 1.0.17 released (with automatic gain control of audio)
Several small other improvements and bugfixes across all services

Speechly API A new and improved load balancer.
Browser client Version 1.0.15, better handling of audio capture and websockets.
Various bugfixes

ASR improvements New basline ASR model.
Dashboard The dashboard now has a button (“SHOW SAMPLE”) that displays a set of random example utterances generated from the given SAL configuration.
Web UI components Major update with a unified API for both JS and React, a new TranscriptDrawer component with just-in-time usage hints for an improved user onboarding experience, a listening prompt to indicate when the app is listening, and a developer-triggerable command to acknowledge that an utterance was received.

Browser client v1.0.13, stability improvements.
SLU engine Make entity and intent detectors more robust against inadvertent non-device-directed speech.
Speechly CLI Tool Version 0.4.1, show amount of annotated audio for each app_id.

Speechly CLI Tool Version 0.4, with support for displaying utterance statistics for each app_id.
Documentation Major update to developer documentation.
Small bugfixes Several fixes to handling entities and segments.

iOS client Version 0.3 released, includes update UI components and other improvements.
Project-based login Support for logging in using a project_id. This allows an application to easily switch between app_ids.

Training time estimates Changed the way how we estimate deployment times when training the models.
Playground Pressing ‘alt’ temporarily enables the Try-button so that one can use the Playground with an old model while a new one is being trained.
Model deployment More robust tranining infrastructure that reduces model training times in certain situations.

iOS UI Components Ready-made UI components for microphone and transcript for hastened development on iOS.
Android Client An Android client for easy integration with Speechly is now available. The Android client enables quick and efficient development of Speechly applications for native Android applications.
Support for new entities Support for natural time expressions such as “fifteen thirty”, “20 past nine” or “5 minutes after midnight” with $SPEECHLY.TIME standard variable and entity type Time.
Minor bugfixes Better support for long utterances, Other fixes

Debugging models in Speechly CLI tool New debugging feature in Speechly CLI tool displays example utterances for a given configuration and calculates statistics about occurences of intents and entities.
Support for unadapted ASR Typically Speechly SLU models are adapted for a specific use case, which helps improve speech recognition accuracy. Now you can also use unadapted ASR for pure transcription use cases. You can test the speech recognition performance here
Support for new entities Speechly Annotation Language supports natively phone numbers, emails, person names and website addresses. This enables developers to easily build voice experiences that contain these data types, for example something like “Add contact with name Jack Johnston and email address jack dot johnston at gmail dot com”
Minor bugfixes

Improved audio handling in browser clients Streaming audio and handling API results is done by using multiple threads for improved performance. Main UI thread is never blocked by Speechly, resulting in a faster UI.
Minor bugfixes

ASR Improvements New baseline model for speech recognition improves ASR accuracy in all use cases.
Improvements to ASR adaptation Utterances that are out of domain (ie. no example utterances provided in the model configuration) now have better speech recognition results.