v1.18 - The Ice Age

What's Changed

New features

• MMS forced alignment backend by @flyingleafe in #1185
• Two new options: CutSet.from_shar(seed="trng") and DynamicCutSampler(quadratic_duration=...) by @pzelasko in #1199
• Faster initialization option in DynamicBucketingSampler + various fixes by @pzelasko in #1210
• CLI to estimate and print bucket bins for a cut set by @pzelasko in #1214
• More flexible setting of audio backends by @pzelasko in #1219

Recipes

• Add recipe for Medical Corpus by @yfyeung in #1212
• minor fix for the AMI recipe by @JinZr in #1178
• fixes compatibility with Edin. ver. VCTK dataset by @JinZr in #1182
• Minor bug fix for eval2000 recipe by @JinZr in #1127
• support far field data for icmcasr challenge by @yuekaizhang in #1189
• fixed text norm for tal_csasr by @JinZr in #1198 #1213

Other improvements

• MixedCut.truncate: fix the case when only PaddingCuts are left by @flyingleafe in #1157
• Fix some potential problems in OPUS file reading by @yangb05 in #1181
• fix an issue where 404 exception leaves 0 byte placeholder by @JinZr in #1190
• Prevent accidental renaming when using with_suffix by @chiiyeh in #1192
• Fix shar export for num_jobs>1 and recordings with transforms by @pzelasko in #1196
• fix speaker error by @yzmyyff in #1197
• Fix for trim_to_alignments issue by @desh2608 in #1193
• Add deterministic_rng to more flaky tests by @pzelasko in #1200
• update_recipes by @vesis84 in #1208
• SpeechSynthesisDataset returns speaker_ids by @JinZr in #1206
• Fix audio backend selection by @pzelasko in #1216
• save sdm files into a single mdm file to do gss by @yuekaizhang in #1221
• Modify SpeechSynthesisDataset class, make it return text by @yaozengwei in #1205
• Allow lhotse installation without torchaudio for a limited set of features by @pzelasko in #1231
• Use attacut module for Thai word tokenization (in MMS forced alignment) by @flyingleafe in #1232

New Contributors

• @yangb05 made their first contribution in #1181
• @chiiyeh made their first contribution in #1192
• @yzmyyff made their first contribution in #1197
• @yaozengwei made their first contribution in #1205

Full Changelog: v1.17...v1.18