Speech Note 4.6.0 Beta 1

[mkiol]

If you want to play and test the upcoming release, Speech Note 4.6.0 Beta 1 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.

Changes (compared to version 4.5.0):

• User Interface
  • Speech Note has been translated into Norwegian language
• Speech to Text
  • The name of the all Whisper models has been changed to 'WhisperCpp' to better reflect the engine behind them.
  • 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' engine. With it, the speed of STT has doubled!
  • Support for OpenVINO hardware acceleration in 'WhisperCpp'. 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
• 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._