December 15th, 2023
Batch Container
New transcription language - Persian (fa)
New bilingual Spanish and English container - this enables Spanish and English to be transcribed accurately within the same file. To pull the new container see here. Only available for GPU
New GPU Ursa models - all 49 languages are now available on GPU
Major transcription accuracy gains
Major improvement in Speaker Diarization accuracy
Faster transcription
Arabic (ar), Bashkir (ba), Basque (eu), Belarusian (be), Bulgarian (bg), Cantonese (yue), Catalan (ca), Croatian (hr), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Dutch (nl), Esperanto (eo), Estonian (et), Finnish (fi), Galician (gl), Greek (el), Hindi (hi), Hungarian (hu), Indonesian (id), Interlingua (ia), Italian (it), Japanese (ja), Korean (ko), Latvian (lv), Lithuanian (lt), Malay (ms), Mandarin (cmn), Marathi (mr), Mongolian (mn), Norwegian (no), Polish (pl), Portuguese (pt), Romanian (ro), Russian (ru), Slovakian (sk), Slovenian (sl), Swedish (sv), Tamil (ta), Thai (th), Turkish (tr), Ukrainian (uk), Uyghur (ug), Vietnamese (vi), Welsh (cy) with associated GPU Inference Container
GPU & CPU
Improved models for English transcription (Standard and Enhanced operating points):
Enhanced transcription of disfluencies in English. The model now more accurately captures common disfluencies like "um" and "uh". This change makes our ASR even more accurate for verbatim transcription, great for use cases such as audio editing, analytics on hesitations for call centers and legal transcription. For details on how to identify disfluencies in output, see the documentation here
More accurate transcription of short utterances of the word "I" in English
More accurate transcription of acronyms in English
CPU
Significantly improved transcription accuracy for English
Significantly improved transcription accuracy for Norwegian
Channel Diarization now supports up to 100 separate input channels
Updated the translation failure behaviour to enable the transcription job to complete
Fixed an error with custom dictionary when the content is only a "-"
Fixed an issue where /dev/stdout was not accessible
Fixed an issue which caused memory to exceed the recommended system requirements when processing longer files
Security fixes