SpeechRecognition v3.6.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2017-01-07 // over 7 years ago
  • ๐Ÿš€ This is more of a maintenance release, but a few features slipped in as well:

    • ๐Ÿ‘Œ Support for the Google Cloud Speech API with recognizer_instance.recognize_google_cloud (thanks @Thynix!), plus documentation and examples.
    • Automatic sample rate detection in speech_recognition.Microphone - this should fully resolve all the "Invalid sample rate" issues from PyAudio.
    • โœ… Project now has automated tests and continuous integration with TravisCI. It's pretty nifty, and has already caught a few things during development!
    • Keywords example for recognizer_instance.recognize_sphinx.
    • ๐Ÿ“š Documentation improvements and updated advice in troubleshooting and library reference.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Bugfix - Google Speech Recognition sometimes didn't return the text with the highest confidence (thanks @akabraham!).
    • ๐Ÿ›  Bugfix - EOFError upon encountering malformed audio files; a proper exception message is now given.
    • โšก๏ธ Updated FLAC binaries for OS X.
    • ๐Ÿ›  Bugfix - invalid FLAC binary path on OS X (thanks @akabraham!).
    • Code cleanup.