(For more detailed notes see https://github.com/Kaljurand/K6nele/commits/master)

v1.9 -

Requires Android 7.0+ (API 24)

v1.9.14 (2024-03-06)

New in this release:

  • Improve compatibility with Android v13 and v14.

v1.8 -

Requires Android 5.0+

v1.8.14 (2022-02-16)

New in this release:

  • Assign the built-in services to a separate process. This solves the long-standing permission issue on Android 11 (issue #82). Note that the issue does not seem to occur on Android 12. It is still recommended to use a separate service like “Kõnele service” for possibly more features and improved configurability.
  • Improve the microphone button DB visualization.
  • Improve the combo button. If 3 or more combos are selected then show them as individual buttons. The active combo is underlined. The button label is the locale ID or the first 3 letters of the service name in case locale is “und” (undefined). Long-pressing on the button shows the full label.
  • IME: change UI mode by vertical dragging (instead of pressing the lower-right-corner button). The height (and thus the mode) of the IME is stored per app. Use case: full screen buttons IME in apps where the text is edited in a single-line text field (e.g. dictionary lookup, calculator).
  • IME: lower-right-corner button is now only a microphone button (but invisible in the default UI mode)
  • IME: up/down swipe moves/selects faster
  • Settings. Remove IME settings “Help text” (made the IME too “crowded” if switched on) and “Swiping” (can be emulated by the user-defined microphone swipe commands)
  • IME: long-pressing on the IME action button shows the action label (often missing). Long-press is implemented via the tooltip, which is available only in Android v8+.
  • IME. Buttons. Skip rules with no label.
  • IME/Ops. replaceSel. Add 2nd arg “regex” which sets a new selection within the replacement using the first group of the matching regex.
  • IME/Ops. replaceSel. Support function @timestamp(pattern, locale), where pattern is the Java SimpleDateFormat date and time pattern string, and locale is a locale label. The function is expanded by formatting the current time based on the given pattern and locale. Use cases: generating file names, adding timestamped notes into a diary.
  • Fix a crash with some recognition services that do not have a preferences panel.
  • Small fixes to improve compatibility with Android 12.

v1.7 -

Requires Android 4.1+

v1.7.56 (2021-01-10)

New in this release:

  • IME: new UI mode where the selected rewrite rules are available as buttons, allowing one to implement custom keyboards for numbers/punctuation, commonly used emoji, text editing commands, calculators, app launchers, etc., where buttons are a more natural modality than speech
  • IME: new UI mode button in the lower right corner, that allows switching between the default mode, buttons-mode, and the minimized mode (without stopping the possibly ongoing recognition). The current UI mode is saved per app.
  • IME: remove the possibility to switch between the default and minimized mode via arrow keys during recognition
  • IME: rewrite rule tables now support a Label-column, meant for button-sized labels and icons
  • IME: remove command saveClip
  • IME: make command moveRelSel callable from rewrite rules
  • IME: make height of the panel independent of the presence of the combo selector (because it must accommodate the UI mode button in all configurations)
  • (experimental) IME: long-pressing the UI mode button starts/stops/cancels recognition

  • (experimental) IME: clipboard items, recent utterances, and frequent utterances are logged into the #c, #r and #f rewrite tables if these tables exist, i.e. this logging must be manually turned on by first creating the empty tables and enabling them, and can be turned off by disabling the tables

    • if imeOptions includes “flagNoPersonalizedLearning” (aka incognito mode) then do not add utterances to the #f and #r tables, even when they are active
  • IME: settings: deprecate “Swiping” (will be removed in the next release)
  • settings: Languages & services: list each service once also with an undefined language (represented by “—”), giving a better overview of all the available services and allowing them to be used without specifying the language
  • action bar now appears on all platforms (incl. Watch)
  • improve support for TV (untested)
  • the mic button now generates utterances like K6_Y_BTN_MIC_UP when pressed/swiped. Rewrite rules can map these to (app-dependent) actions, e.g. (in a chat app) left swipe to select text on the left, right swipe to post current text.
  • improve rewrites pretty-printing
  • make some touch targets a bit bigger, e.g. the combo selector now looks more like a button
  • support custom query string parts in WS URL, e.g. ws://10.0.0.11:8080/client/ws/speech?key1=val1&key2=val2 (issue #70)
  • avoid the error “Cleartext HTTP traffic not permitted” when using the Lights.Hue rewrites table, on Android v8+
  • add developer setting to switch on Do Not Disturb access (issue #73)
  • remove intent filter for RECORD_SOUND (did not work)
  • migrate UI to AndroidX (~1 MB larger APK)
  • small UI changes, e.g. use SeekBarPreference
  • remember combo state per app
  • remove dependency on the net-speech-api library
  • use the separate app Kõnele service as the default service provider, if installed, otherwise use the built-in “Kõnele (fast recognition)”. It is recommended to install “Kõnele service”, at least on Android 11, where the built-in service does not seem to work (issue #82).
  • add support for the light theme; the theme now depends on the system theme (requires recent Android)

v1.1 - v1.6

Requires Android 4.0+ (has Android 4.0+ style UI)

v1.6.98 (2018-12-27)

New in this release:

  • launcher icon is now adaptive (and slightly redesigned)
  • menu icons are now all vector drawables (and some are slightly redesigned)
  • fix issue with FLAC-encoded recording getting stuck after ~30 sec (on some devices)
  • improve service descriptions
  • Settings: add shortcut from “Languages & services” to “Recognition services”
  • IME: improve how action icon is selected, e.g. show newline icon in GMail’s “Compose email” field
  • IME: fix some potential NPEs
  • IME: extend command getUrl to support @sel and URL encoding

v1.6.96 (2018-12-08)

New in this release:

  • IME: submit partial results as “composing text”, which depending on the editor indicates their span, e.g. with underline
  • IME: allow the screen to switch off (i.e. do not raise KEEP_SCREEN_ON), unless recognizing
  • IME: add action icons for DONE, GO, SEND
  • IME: turn red if minimized (i.e. recognizing)
  • settings: list every installed recognition service, with its name, icon, description, and settings dialog. (Note that while Kõnele’s two services provide all these components, 3rd-party services might lack some.)
  • minor fixes/improvements to rewrite rule management
  • Wear-only: search panel: show vertical scrollbar

v1.6.90 (2018-10-13)

New in this release:

  • in menu Settings/Recognition services/Kõnele (fast recognition)/WebSocket URL, scan the (local) network to look for server. Also show server status, which partially solves issue #56
  • simpler sharing and importing of rewrite rule tables as base64-encoded URIs (scheme “k6”)
  • “Speak & swipe keyboard” feature “Swiping moves cursor” (added in the previous release) is now the default behavior
  • “Voice search panel” can be moved and remembers its previous location (might be useful on larger screens)
  • “Recognition languages & services” now also includes services that do not specify any languages, e.g. Tildes Balss’ TldWebSocketRecognitionService (Latvian), and Google’s service on the Wear
  • “Speak & swipe keyboard” settings are now disabled if the keyboard is disabled in the global settings
  • small UI improvements to the rewrites selector
  • fix regression in showing the warning message if microphone permission is not granted
  • some reorganization of the Developer menu, e.g. remove “Quick settings”

v1.6.78 (2018-03-19)

New in this release:

  • new menu “Swiping” under the IME settings to allow for the selection of a new IME mode. This mode is the default on the Watch, but currently non-default everywhere else.
  • behavior of the new mode while recognizing: same as the old mode, i.e. swipe to left deletes and swipe to right adds a newline

  • behavior of the new mode while not recognizing:

    • button Delete: deletes the symbol on the left of the cursor, or deletes the selection (if present); holding the button keeps deleting symbols
    • move left: moves cursor to the left
    • move up left: moves cursor to the left faster
    • move right: moves cursor to the right
    • move down right: moves cursor to the right faster
    • long press: enters the “selection mode”, where the above movements change the selection (i.e. just one “side” of the cursor); in case there is no existing selection, then selects the word (\w+) under (or next to) the cursor
    • single tap: cancels the selection
    • double tap: adds a space at cursor
    • press the left edge of the IME: moves the cursor to the left
    • press the right edge of the IME: moves the cursor to the right

  • GUI in the new IME mode:

    • hide buttons when in cursor moving mode
    • light grey background when in selection mode
    • show cursor direction/speed in the message bar
  • extension of the GUI in both IME modes:
    • the search button was generalized to an “action” button, i.e. it performs a different action (currently: “search”, “next” or “new line”) depending on the type of the text field (search field, title field, regular text field)
    • the keyboard button is replaced by a down-arrow during dictation to allow one to collapse the UI (showing only the dictation result, action button, and an up-arrow). This is useful when dictating longer, wanting to expose more of the text area, and/or not caring about touch commands.

v1.6.68 (2017-10-26)

New in this release:

  • support multiple default rewrite rule tables
  • new IME behavior: single tap on the keyboard button switches to the previous keyboard, while long press switches to the next keyboard; the button is not hidden anymore during recognition
  • make IME discoverable when querying for IMEs with voice subtype
  • improve and document usage on Android Things
  • improve and document usage on Android Wear
  • small UI improvements for service icons, app shortcuts, UI labels
  • support permission READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, required when opening downloaded rewrite rules on some devices from some apps (needs to be enabled via the general Android settings if needed, i.e. Kõnele provides no permission requesting dialog for this permission)
  • support setting HTTP headers in FetchUrlActivity
  • add GetPutPreferenceActivity that simplifies changing multiple preferences
  • add the Voice search panel setting “Return errors”, and more developer settings
  • update dependencies

v1.6.46 (2017-02-19)

This release introduces various small extensions and generalizations that collectively allow Kõnele to interact with external apps and devices, e.g. it is now relatively easy to use Kõnele as a voice interface to a third-party (text-only) chatbot, control your home lights with voice commands, or simply launch other apps on the device.

New in this release:

  • add rewrite rule table columns Locale, App, Service, which allow one to match the utterance only in a certain locale, app, or service
  • add rewrite rule table columns Command, Arg1, Arg2, which allow one to execute a command (e.g. launch an activity, manipulate the editor contents) based on the utterance
  • support more input EXTRAs, adding more flexibility when launching Kõnele from adb or other apps, e.g. Tasker
  • introduce a JSON-based format for Android intents, usable in the 1st argument of the activity command
  • add FetchUrlActivity that executes the given HTTP query and applies rewrites to the response
  • support voice prompts using Android’s text-to-speech service (can be enabled only using the VOICE_PROMPT EXTRA)
  • support app shortcuts for each selected language/service combo (only on Android 7.1)
  • add a more powerful GUI for managing rewrite rule tables
  • simplify the importing of rewrite tables from spreadsheets
  • show erroneous commands/rewrites after importing a rewrites table
  • add service icons in combo selector list for quicker finding of Kõnele services
  • require the permission for setting the alarm (enables the common use case of setting the alarm with a voice command)
  • IME: add setting to disable showing partial results
  • IME: add swipe up/down
  • IME: do not change the text selection before the final transcription has been obtained
  • IME: improve the behavior of selection reset (single tap)

v1.5.22 (2016-10-15)

New in this release:

  • voice search panel now supports the Android v7 split screen mode, by loading the search results into the other window
  • fix occasional crash while recording (on Android v7), speechutils issue #4
  • minor UI improvements

v1.5.20 (2016-04-08)

New in this release:

  • change the default service of the search panel to be the “fast recognition” service, giving a better first impression because this service is likely to be faster and more accurate
  • add permission requesting also to the speech keyboard, issue #43
  • improve error messages, and a few other UI labels
  • fix regression: crash at startup on Android v5

v1.5.10 (2016-02-17)

New in this release:

  • both Kõnele services can now FLAC-encode input audio
    • reduces outgoing network traffic by 2-3x
    • does not work on some (older) devices
    • disabled by default
  • rewriting now also applies in the voice search mode
  • settings: link to system menu “Assist & voice input”
  • move some general functionality to the speechutils library
  • improve demo activities
  • various UI improvements
    • vector drawables
    • more explanation when requesting permissions
    • finish() voice search panel if websearch is launched
    • language/service switching button now enabled also during recognition, tapping it stops the recording

v1.4.08 (2015-12-22)

Bugfix in WebSocketRecognitionService: Do not send EOS if 0 bytes were recorded, prematurely ending the recognition session. This occurred sometimes in some devices (at least in Nexus 9 and OnePlus One).

v1.4.06 (2015-11-28)

New in this release:

  • Android v6 style permission management
  • the APK is easier to build from source (the dependency net-speech-api is now used as an Android library)
  • internal refactoring (some general code moved to the new dependency speechutils)
  • developer feature: apply Java regex-based search/replace expressions (loaded from a 2-column tsv-file) to the service output (in IME mode only)
  • speech keyboard: improve left-delete
  • small fixes

v1.3.20 (2015-10-02)

This release is mainly about internal refactoring but also resulted in a new voice search panel. The new panel reuses the existing speech keyboard UI to offer the same features and look-and-feel on both the speech keyboard and the voice search panel. Some features offered by the old panel were dropped: support for screen rotation during recognition, some UI feedback: byte/time/chunk counter, waveform display.

New in this release:

  • reorganization of the settings menu (e.g. audio cues are now part of the service configuration)
  • speech keyboard: long press selects all text (which makes it easy to dictate over a completely failed transcription)
  • search panel: the number of returned recognition hypothesis is now configurable
  • the search panel can be launched by actions like “long press on the headset button” etc. (varies by device)
  • bugfixes

Name changes and deprecation:

  • activity.SpeechActionActivity (new voice search panel)
  • SpeechRecognitionService -> service.HttpRecognitionService
  • WebSocketRecognizer -> service.WebSocketRecognitionService
  • VoiceIMEView -> view.SpeechInputView (view component used by the speech keyboard and the new search panel)
  • deprecated: RecognizerIntentService (old service which did not implement RecognitionService)
  • RecognizerIntentActivity -> activity.RecognizerIntentActivity + deprecated (old voice search panel)

v1.2.06 (2015-08-01) (only released on F-Droid: 2015-08-03)

  • the APK is easier to build from source
  • slightly brighter launcher icon
  • shorter/friendlier error messages on the IME

v1.2.04 (2015-06-27) (released on Google Play: 2015-06-18)

  • slightly smaller/nicer microphone button on the IME
  • required API level lowered from 16 to 14 (ICS)

v1.2.00 (2015-06-03) (released on Google Play: 2015-06-03)

  • new setting in the “Speech keyboard” section: list of all the languages supported by one or more of the speech recognition services on the device
    • tap on the checkboxes to select any number of language/service combinations to be available on the speech keyboard
  • new button on the speech keyboard (visible if more than one language/service combination is selected)
    • tap to rotate through the selected languages/services, allowing dictation in multiple languages/services without leaving the speech keyboard
    • long-press to open the full language/service list
  • smaller fixes

v1.1.02 (2015-03-07) (released on Google Play: 2015-03-06)

  • require API >= 16 (Android v4.1 Jelly Bean)
  • modernize the UI (making the menus more accessible)
  • remove some hidden developer features, reducing the APK size by 40k
  • fix crash due to the WEB_SEARCH activity not available on some devices (we now fall back to SEARCH, or no activity if SEARCH is also not available)

v0.8 (not maintained)

Requires Android 2.2+

  • extension of v0.7.xx, but additionally implements the RecognitionService-interface
  • settings are part of the global settings
  • launcher submits the transcription to the standard websearch
  • starting with v0.8.50 implements the IME interface

(Old issue numbers refer to code.google.com/p/recognizer-intent/issues/list, which is no longer available.)

v0.8.58 (2015-01-29) (released on Google Play: 2015-01-29)

  • new setting to remove the help text from the IME, making it consume even less screen space in landscape mode
  • IME: fix stack overflow in some cases
  • IME: improve the search button

v0.8.56 (2015-01-10) (released on Google Play: 2015-01-10)

  1. Added a new speech recognizer service that uses the continuous dictation server

http://github.com/alumae/kaldi-gstreamer-server, offering faster and more accurate transcription (but no grammar support). If set to default in Settings -> Language & input -> Speech -> Voice input then this service can be used in other apps (e.g. in Google Translate) for Estonian voice input.

  1. Added support for input method editor (IME), which offers a one-button keyboard:

    • press the button to start/stop/cancel speech recognition
    • swipe left to delete the word left from cursor
    • swipe right to add a newline
    • double tap to insert a space
    • press the keyboard icon to switch to the next/last keyboard
    • long press the keyboard icon to open a keyboard switcher
    • press the search icon to launch the search (if editing a search bar)

The IME must be first enabled in Settings -> Language & input -> Keyboard & input methods. Note that it uses the new service by default but can be configured in the Kõnele settings to use any speech recognizer service available on the phone (although it has been tested only with Kõnele’s own services).

v0.8.44 (2014-11-02) (released on Google Play: 2014-11-02)

  • support for extras:
    • android.speech.extra.GET_AUDIO
    • android.speech.extra.GET_AUDIO_FORMAT (only if set to “audio/wav”)
  • minor fixes

v0.8.42 (2013-08-01) (released on Google Play: 2013-08-03)

  • fixed: audio level was not immediately restored if an error occurred during recognition. (Only in case of GUI-less recognition, e.g. when called from a keyboard app.)

v0.8.40 (2013-01-22) (released on Google Play: 2013-01-22)

  • improved: now works when called from Google Chrome

v0.8.38 (2013-01-20)

  • added: now ask the server for max 5 results and pop up a disambiguation dialog in case more than 1 results are delivered (in GUI mode and given that there is no calling activity)
  • added: Settings-button to K6nele GUI, greatly simplifies access to the settings
  • added: boolean setting “respect device default locale” (takes effect in case the calling app does not specify the language of the input)
  • improved: minor GUI and documentation improvements

v0.8.36 (2013-01-13)

  • added: two K6nele-specific result extras to be able to communicate all the output of the phon-server to the calling activity:
    • ee.ioc.phon.android.extra.RESULTS_RECOGNITION_LINEARIZATIONS
    • ee.ioc.phon.android.extra.RESULTS_RECOGNITION_LINEARIZATION_COUNTS
  • added: support the “selectedLanguage” extra provided by some IMEs
  • added: communicate the value of EXTRA_PARTIAL_RESULTS to the server
  • improved: update net-speech-api (might behave better if network is slow)
  • improved: simpler way to switch recognition servers
  • improved: About/Info activity

v0.8.30 (2012-10-14) (released on Google Play: 2012-10-14)

  • fixed: Issue 14
  • fixed: potential memory leak (and NPE?)

v0.8.28 (2012-08-04) (released on Google Play: 2012-08-04)

  • improved: now sending chunks with a smaller time interval, thus obtaining the transcription faster
  • fixed: server connection was sometimes not correctly closed resulting in “no transcription found”

v0.8.26 (2012-04-27) (released on Google Play: 2012-04-28)

  • improved the recorder

v0.8.23 (2012-03-04) (released on Android Market: 2012-03-05)

  • added: volume indicator
  • improved: volume indicator in keyboard apps
  • fixed: some (potential) crashes related to stopping the recorder and dropping the network connection
  • fixed: grammars could not be assigned to some apps (e.g. Dolphin Browser and iris.)

v0.8.22 (2012-02-14) (released on Android Market: 2012-02-14)

  • added: support for android.speech.action.GET_LANGUAGE_DETAILS
  • added: more meaningful user agent comment
  • minor fixes

v0.8.18 (2012-02-10)

  • added: option to move to SD card
  • removed: 8kHz recording option, because this is known to result in low quality transcription
  • improved: Estonian About-page, e.g. describe Speaktoit+Alarm as a possible use case for grammar-based speech recognition
  • added: support for EXTRA_PHRASE which could be useful for 3rd party calibration and speech data collection apps

v0.8.17 (2012-02-06)

  • added: launcher icon. Clicking on it will open the recognizer UI but the recognition results are passed to the standard websearch (because there is no calling activity)
  • added: support for landscape mode and device orientation change during recording/transcribing
  • added: beep for error condition
  • changed: NO_MATCH result is now handled within the Kõnele GUI instead of returning it to the caller
  • changed: some font sizes to be compatible with the recommendations of http://developer.android.com/design/

v0.8.16 (2012-01-17)

  • simplified the way the recorder buffer size is calculated (might make recording work on some devices where it didn’t work before)
  • improved recorder performance (affects slower devices like HTC Wildfire)
  • UI change: Stop-button is now hidden if Autostop is enabled

v0.8.12 (2012-01-02)

It is now possible to configure which sample rate is used when recording the audio. The default 16kHz offers the best quality / upload speed balance, but it might not be available on all devices. If recording does not work with 16kHz then try another rate (in particular 44.1kHz). See also Issue 20.

v0.8.10 (2011-12-20) (released on Android Market: 2011-12-20)

  • updated the links on the About-page
  • fix: default settings did not correspond to the settings UI when the app was used for the very first time

v0.8.08 (2011-12-18)

  • fixed: force close if the server was set to a URL which exists but which does not provide speech recognition service (e.g. http://example.com) (fixed by updating to netspeechapi-0.1.5.jar)

v0.8.07 (2011-12-16)

  • fixed: RecognitionService: max recording time was not enforced when pause detection was off
  • fixed: RecognitionService: max recording time was incorrectly calculated
  • added: xhdpi icons
  • app name is now Kõnele in every localization
  • tiny UI improvements

v0.8.06 (2011-12-14)

  • now identifying the RecognitionService-user via EXTRA_CALLING_PACKAGE
  • improved About-page

v0.8.05 (2011-12-13)

  • improved: RecognitionService: rmsChanged
  • now recording from MediaRecorder.AudioSource.VOICE_RECOGNITION instead of MIC, not sure on which devices it has any effect
  • URL-input field (in Servers and Grammars) requests URI-aware keyboard
  • improved some strings
  • minor cleanup in response to the Android lint tool

v0.8.03 (2011-12-08)

  • RecognitionService-interface:
    • bug and stability fixes
    • preliminary support for the waveform-display

v0.8.02 (2011-12-07)

Preliminary implementation of the RecognitionService-interface.

v0.7 (not maintained)

Requires Android 1.6+

v0.7.36 (2011-12-05) (released on Android Market: 2011-12-31)

  • All error messages apart from RESULT_NO_MATCH are now displayed as part of the Speak UI and not sent to the calling app as result codes (see Issue 15). The two most common errors are:
    • network connection is not switched on
    • recording fails, e.g. another app is already recording
  • Minor GUI changes:
    • nicer record-button
    • removed Add-menu from the App-list
    • App-list sort order is now persistent (e.g. survives rotation)
  • Added: Alarm-grammar (which is also included in the Action-grammar)
    • The Alarm-grammar allows you to set alarms in apps like Speaktoit by saying e.g. “ärata mind kell kaheksa null üks”.

v0.7.34 (2011-12-01)

  • renamed package name: recognizerintent -> speak
  • UI changes:
    • added: menu icons (from Android 4)
    • changed: microphone icons (from Android 4)
    • tiny change to the launcher icon
    • recorder/recognizer prompt can now have 2 lines

v0.7.33 (2011-11-29)

  • new “start/stop recording” sounds (Issue 2)

v0.7.32 (2011-11-22)

Minor changes:

  • fewer confusing exception messages are shown to the user
  • apps: app frequency counter now has a background color
  • grammars list: Exp -> Expr

v0.7.31 (2011-11-11)

Now using netspeechapi-0.1.3.jar which allows us to tell the server how many transcription hypotheses to generate (nbest). This is calculated based on EXTRA_MAX_RESULTS:

int nbest = (mExtraMaxResults > 1) ? mExtraMaxResults : 1;

Note that if the client does not specify EXTRA_MAX_RESULTS then a single hypothesis is generated, but it might have several linearizations which all are returned. However, when the client sets EXTRA_MAX_RESULTS to 1 then just one linearization is returned, even if there are more. In case EXTRA_MAX_RESULTS = 2, then 2 linearizations are returned but the client won’t find out if they are from the same hypothesis, if there are more linearizations, etc. This confusion arises from the fact that we are turning the complex list-of-lists structure returned by the server into the simple list required by the standard RecognizerIntent return extra.

v0.7.30 (2011-11-06)

  • improved: removed the need for the READ_PHONE_STATE permission. Now sending a UUID which is not connected to any existing user ID and which the user can reset by
    • Settings -> Applications -> Manage applications -> Speak -> Clear data (or Uninstall)
  • now uploading a flac-file in the test-menu (this is just to make the APK smaller, and test the content-type setting)

v0.7.29 (2011-11-04)

  • added: support for android.speech.extra.PROMPT. This allows the caller app to display a short message as part of the recorder/recognizer UI. (In the future, this could be used in calibration, where the speaker needs to be shown the phrase that he/she is supposed to utter.)
  • trying out new beep sounds (they are too noisy though)
  • fixed: Issue 8
  • improved the Apps list: the target language is now shown, as well as a marker for the “unrestricted” grammar

v0.7.28 (2011-11-03)

  • added EXTRA: ee.ioc.phon.android.extra.SERVER_URL (Issue 9)
  • worked on Issue 10, previously the user could set the server/grammar EXTRAs, but could not override them if the calling app had set them, now the user can override the following EXTRAs:
    • SERVER_URL
    • GRAMMAR_URL
    • GRAMMAR_TARGET_LANG
  • added: “unrestricted input” grammar (empty string for both the grammar URL and the target lang) which can be used to disable the incoming grammar EXTRAs
  • possibly a bit better pause detection (Issue 3)

v0.7.27 (2011-11-02)

  • updated to netspeechapi-0.1.1.jar, i.e. empty string is not accepted as transcription anymore
  • tiny UI changes
  • possibly a bit better pause detection (Issue 3)
  • grammar table: URL+Lang must be unique (before URL had to be unique), i.e. the user can add the same PGF (e.g. Address) several times if the languages differ (e.g. Est, Gmaps, Edwin, Wolfram, …)
  • Apps/Grammars DB update

v0.7.25 (2011-10-27)

  • renamed the extras (again), new names:
    • ee.ioc.phon.android.extra.GRAMMAR_URL
    • ee.ioc.phon.android.extra.GRAMMAR_TARGET_LANG
  • improved the recognizer-activity UI
    • it has now a constant size during its 3 states (initial, recording, transcribing)
  • Apps/Grammars DB update

v0.7.23 (2011-10-21)

Minor changes:

  • more info on the About-page
  • UI improvements, e.g. the size of the waveform is now density-independent

v0.7.22 (2011-10-13)

Apart from a few UI changes (e.g. some checkboxes are now initially on) all the changes are about grammar-based speech recognition support.

  • now using the new net-speech-api that added support for PGF-grammars
  • removed the menu item for notifying the server about the grammar
  • complete update of the grammars database
  • new extras: EXTRA_GRAMMAR_URL, EXTRA_GRAMMAR_LANG
  • removed extra: EXTRA_GRAMMAR_JSGF
  • now all demo activities have an “assign grammar” menu that lets you restrict the input to the given grammar
  • when adding a new grammar URL, the name of the grammar is filled in automatically (filename without the last extension)
  • in addition to changing an existing grammar URL, one can now also change the name and language of the grammar

(Language refers to the machine language that is the target of the translation of the raw speech recognizer result.)

v0.7.19 (2011-10-07)

  • fixed: issue 1
  • added: more grammar URLs
  • removed: a test audio file to reduce the apk size

v0.7.18 (2011-10-05)

  • fixed: UI blocked if internet was slow
  • added: a small dot is printed for every chunk that was successfully sent to the server
  • improved: the Repeater-demo now has a menu which allows the user to select a grammar to be used (previously the grammar was preset and could not be changed)

v0.7.17 (2011-09-26)

  • new package name
  • minor UI fixes

v0.7.16 (2011-09-25)

  • tapping on an app icon now launches the app (previously one needed a long-tap to open the context menu which contained the launch option)
  • added: some grammar URLs
  • grammar-URL-based sorting now goes in the different direction
  • now always building with ProGuard resulting in a much smaller package size

v0.7.15 (2011-08-04)

  • improved Estonian localization
  • fixed some UI bugs

v0.7.13 (2011-07-13)

  • added: support for different recognition servers