SEPIA STT Server v1.0.0 with Coqui support, Vosk update, improved settings and model select

v1.0.0 - 2022.07.04

• Added support for Coqui-STT v1.3.0
• Updated Vosk ASR to v0.3.42
• Added new 'dynamic' engine setting to switch between all engines (Vosk, Coqui, tbd) on runtime per request
• Improved settings file and loader to support specific model properties, new common prop. 'name', 'engine', 'task' and new server options
• Smarter model loading depending on available language and 'task' and fallback to next best fit (first core lang. + common task)
• Fixed settings loader to read only the one file with highest priority
• Improved engine test scripts and updated demo pages
• Smaller fixes and API tweaks

Included Files

Coqui-STT

• Coqui-STT v1.3.0 wheels for x86 64Bit, Arm32 (v7l) and Aarch64 (aka Arm64) - Mozilla Public License 2.0
• coqui-model-en-1.0.0 (English Coqui model v1.0.0 w/o scorer for testing) - Apache 2.0 license

Vosk ASR

• Vosk 0.3.42 wheels for x86 64Bit, Arm32 (v7l) and Aarch64 (aka Arm64) - Apache 2.0 license
• Models: see previous release (no changes for now)

Notes

• If you want to build Docker containers please always use the code from the latest master (not the one included in this release)!

First release of new SEPIA STT-Server

SEPIA STT Server - 2021 Rework

This is a complete rework of the 2018 STT server with a lot of new features, better performance and even smaller size ^^.
This new server will be fully supported by the upcoming v0.24.0 of the SEPIA Client.
Please see the README for more info and a script to convert your old STT models.

Included Files

Vosk ASR

• Vosk 0.3.30 binaries for x86 64Bit, Arm32 (v7l) and Aarch64 (aka Arm64) - Apache 2.0 license
• vosk-model-small-en-us-0.15 - Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi - Apache 2.0 license
• vosk-model-small-de-0.15 - Lightweight wideband model for Android and RPi - Apache 2.0 license
• vosk-model-spk-0.4 - Model for speaker identification (all models) - Apache 2.0 license