Batch Appliance Release Notes
4.3.0
Improvements
- Language vocabulary improvements for French (fr), Italian (it), Hindi (hi), and Korean (ko)
- Remodelled German (de) language pack to utilize subwords, separating words into smaller segments to reduce Word Error Rate (WER)
- Improved numeral formatting in English
- Improved formatting for common telephone numbers, measurements, websites, email addresses and credit cards
- Alphanumerics now have upper-case letters
- Added regional handling for en-AU and en-US Output Locale to keep 'pounds' as words
- A number of other improvements and fixes for better readability
Fixes
- Fix for missing accented characters in Dutch transcription
- Security fixes
4.2.0
New
- 14 new languages: Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Esperanto, Estonian, Galician, Interlingua, Marathi, Mongolian, Tamil, Thai, Uyghur, Vietnamese, and Welsh
- The JSON-v2 output version is now 2.8, specific changes are:
- Additional language pack information has been added to the metadata section of the transcription results. There is now more detailed information about properties of the language being used, such as writing direction and word delimiter.
- We now also record the correct attachment direction for punctuation (e.g. before or after a space) in a new attaches_to field.
Improvements
- Improved accuracy for 20 languages: Latvian (lv), Swedish (sv), Hungarian (hu), Portuguese (pt), Polish (pl), Mandarin Chinese (cmn), Arabic (ar), Dutch (nl), Slovak (sk), Bulgarian (bg), Romanian (ro), Slovenian (sl), Lithuanian (It), Croatian (hr), Malay (ms), Catalan (ca), Czech (cs), Danish (da), Greek (el), Turkish (tr)
- Improved formatting of numeric entities such as dates, currencies and large numbers for Swedish (sv), Norwegian (no), and Dutch (nl).
Fixes
- Fix for accurately handling "p" as "pence" when transcribing currency in English (en).
- Fix for handling small denominator fractions in Italian (it) and not converting to similar English homonyms e.g. "un terzo" being converted to "1/3".
Known Limitations
The following are known issues in this release:
| Issue ID | Summary | Detailed Description and Possible Workarounds |
|---|---|---|
| REQ-1409 | Proteus HCL with <unk> causes out of memory error | A Custom Dictionary list that contains the word <unk> causes the worker to crash. |
| REQ-7549 | Memory leak affecting gRPC | There is a small memory leak in the gRPC Python server https://github.com/grpc/grpc/issues/5913. |
| REQ-10160 | Advanced punctuation for Spanish (es) does not contain inverted marks. | Inverted marks [ ¿ ¡ ] are not currently available for Spanish advanced punctuation. |
| REQ-10627 | Double full stops when acronym is at the end of the sentence | If there is an acronym at the end of the sentence, then a double full stop will be output, for example: "team G.B.." |
| REQ-10634 | Putting "-" as an item in additional vocab configuration will cause the container to fail | Do not enter just a "-" on its own in Custom Dictionary either as an additional vocab item or in the sounds_like property. Hyphens are still supported when entered as part of phrases or words |
| REQ-14402 | When running very large numbers of small jobs (less than 10 seconds) offline, this may cause some of the jobs to be rejected | If you encounter this issue, please ensure licensing is in offline mode when running the appliance offline |
Supported Platforms
Virtual Appliance image (OVA) for installation on:
- VMware ESXi 6.5+ or VMware Workstation Player.
- VirtualBox 5.2+
- Amazon EC2
See the Installation and Admin Guide for details on the minimum specifications for the VM. The maximum number of concurrent jobs (maxworkers) that you can run on a single appliance is 30.
Form Factors
| Variant | Image Size | Max. Disk Space | Languages |
|---|---|---|---|
| nano | 10GB | 40GB | en |
| mini | 15GB | 40GB | en, de, es |
| midi | 30GB | 60GB | en, de, es, fr, ko, ja, nl, pt |
| maxi | 52GB | 80GB | en, de, es, fr, ko, ja, nl, pt, it, da, pl, ca, hi, ru, sv |
| plus | 61GB | 80GB | en, cmn, no, ar, bg, cs, el, fi, hu, hr, lt, lv, ro, sk, sl, tr, ms, id, yue, ba, eu, be, eu, et, gl, ia, mr, mn, ta, th, ug, vi, cy |
Upgrade Path
Remove the license from your old appliance (see the Admin Guide), then re-import the new OVA and configure networking as per the Installation and Admin guide. You will need to re-apply the license code you have once the OVA has imported.
Installation
Upload the OVA to VMWare ESX, VMWare Workstation Player, or VirtualBox. See the Installation and Admin Guide for more information.
Performance at Scale
Further notes on IOPS requirements under heavy usage of the appliance are now provided in the System Requirements section of the Installation Guide.