v1.16 - Mountain Warming

What's Changed

Recipes

New:

• Add speech translation corpus MuST-C by @csukuangfj in #1079
• Extend LibriTTS recipe to support LibriTTS-R by @pzelasko in #1082
• SURT dataset by @desh2608 in #951
• [Recipe] VoxPopuli by @desh2608 in #1089
• Air Traffic Control (ATC) corpora - various improvements 2 by @rouseabout in #1090
• Add Bengali.AI Speech corpus for Kaggle Research Code Competition by @yfyeung in #1108
• Support AudioMNIST by @csukuangfj in #1093

Improvements:

• Add multithread to peoples_speech by @yfyeung in #1078
• Add multiprocess mechanism for Common Voice by @yfyeung in #1025
• text normalization for aishell4 by @JinZr in #1103
• updated text norm for aishell2 by @JinZr in #1104
• updated text norm for magicdata by @JinZr in #1105
• PR for the KeSpeech recipe by @JinZr in #1106
• Small changes in some existing recipes by @desh2608 in #1110

New features

• CutSet.from_files constructor for random order multi-file cutsets by @pzelasko in #1085
• Infinite random-file random-line stateless sampler by @pzelasko in #1102
• StatelessSampler: remove TRNG, make base_seed a mandatory parameter by @pzelasko in #1109

Other improvements

• Loudness fix by @desh2608 in #1087
• Update SpecAug custom state_dict to be compatible with PyTorch by @osadj in #1091
• Adding log spectrogram by @Tomiinek in #1094
• add user defined kaldi feature type by @ZihanLiao in #1101
• Update cuts.rst by @taras-sereda in #1112
• Add alignment scores from CTM by @desh2608 in #1116
• Fix and enhance TIMIT recipe by @flyingleafe in #1072
• Fixing shar reader assert by @Tomiinek in #1117
• Support del (cut|supervision).custom_field by @pzelasko in #1113
• Exposing tolerance for matching supervisions with features in Kaldi imported data dirs by @pzelasko in #1119
• Some additional options for supervision-related methods by @desh2608 in #1115

New Contributors

• @osadj made their first contribution in #1091
• @ZihanLiao made their first contribution in #1101
• @taras-sereda made their first contribution in #1112

Full Changelog: v1.15...v1.16