Speech Note 4.6.0 Beta 2

[mkiol]

If you want to play and test the upcoming release, Speech Note 4.6.0 Beta 2 is available in "flathub-beta" repository. To enable "flathub-beta" follow these instructions.

Make sure to update the add-on to version 1.2.0 if you are using it.

Release Highlights:

• Much quicker STT without GPU acceleration (WhisperCpp models)
• OpenVINO acceleration (WhisperCpp models)
• Automatic language detection in STT (WhisperCpp and FasterWhisper)
• Control tags for advance TTS processing (dynamically change speed or add silence)
• Improved Translator UI

All changes (compared to version 4.5.0):

• User Interface
  • Speech Note has been translated into Norwegian language
  • Grouped models.
    Models that provide multiple sub-models (for example, TTS models
    that provide different voices) are shown in groups. This makes it
    easier to find models in the model browser.
• Speech to Text
  • The name of the all Whisper models has been changed to
    'WhisperCpp' to better reflect the engine behind them.
  • Automatic language detection in STT.
    To automatically detect the language during STT, select one of
    the models that is in the 'Auto detected' category in
    the language list.
  • Separate settings for engines.
    The configuration of each engine has been separated in the settings.
    You can separately set the parameters for 'WhisperCpp' and
    'FasterWhisper'. The new configuration parameters that have been
    added to the settings are: 'Number of simultaneous threads',
    'Beam search width', 'Audio context size', 'Use Flash Attention'.
  • Quicker decoding with 'WhisperCpp'.
    Optimization for short sentences has been added to 'WhisperCpp'.
    With it, the speed of STT has doubled!
  • Support for OpenVINO hardware acceleration in 'WhisperCpp' engine.
    With OpenVINO decoding on CPU is much quicker. If you are not using
    GPU acceleration, it is recommended to enable OpenVINO in
    'WhisperCpp' engine settings.
    Currently, OpenVINO is enabled only for CPU acceleration.
  • Option for inserting processing statistics.
    New settings option allows inserting processing related
    information to the text after decoding, such as processing time and
    audio length. This can be useful for comparing the
    performance of different models, engines and their parameters.
• Text to Speech
  • Control tags for advance TTS processing.
    Control tags allow you to dynamically change the speed of
    synthesized text or add silence between sentences.
    To use control tags, insert '{speed: 0.5}' or '{silence: 1s}'
    into the text. For convenience, you can also insert
    predefined control tags using text context menu 'Insert control tag'.
  • Welsh language. New language is enabled with 'Piper' voice.
  • New 'Piper' voices for Spanish, Italian and English
  • New 'RHVoice' voice for Slovak
• Translator
  • Improved Translator UI.
    The 'Translate', 'Switch languages' and 'Add' buttons have been
    placed between text areas which is more convenient.
  • New models: English to Lithuanian, Croatian to English,
    Latvian to English, Danish to English
  • Updated models: Lithuanian to English, Slovenian to English
• Flatpak
  • New library: OpenVINO version 2024.1.0.15008
  • whisper.cpp update to version 1.6.2
  • CTranslate2 update to version 4.3.1

[gbodley]

.mp3 not supported which seems ridiculous for a program that's main feature is to export .mp3. How do we submit examples of what we are talking about?

_We don’t support that file type.

Try again with GIF, JPEG, JPG, MOV, MP4, PNG, SVG, WEBM, CPUPROFILE, CSV, DMP, DOCX, FODG, FODP, FODS, FODT, GZ, JSON, JSONC, LOG, MD, ODF, ODG, ODP, ODS, ODT, PATCH, PDF, PPTX, TGZ, TXT, XLS, XLSX or ZIP._

[mkiol]

@gbodley

.mp3 not supported

Sorry for the very late reply. MP3 format is supported for both import and export. If that doesn't work, could you create a separate "issue" for this problem? Thanks.

[mkiol]

Release 4.6.0 is out, so closing.

[gbodley]

I was talking about the github site, not the program

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[mkiol]

I was talking about the github site, not the program

Ha ha, now that makes sense :) I was really worried that a key feature was not working.

[gbodley]

No. I wanted to post an example of the speech output of the program, but mp3 is not allowed to be submitted by github for some unknown reason.

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