v1.17 - Swirling Ice Pick

What's Changed

New supported datasets

• Speech to text translation utilizing 3-way data by @AmirHussein96 in #1099
• "This American Life" dataset recipe by @flyingleafe in #1140
• Add VoxConverse recipe by @flyingleafe in #1142
• Add recipe for ICASSP2024 ICMC-ASR Grand Challenge by @yfyeung in #1172

New features

• Initial support for video by @pzelasko in #1151
• copy_data: copy CutSet + its data to a new location by @pzelasko in #1130
• Add whisper feature extractor by @yuekaizhang in #1159
• VAD workflow with Silero by @rilshok in #1160

Enhancements and fixes

• Fix feature extraction for lhotse shar CLI by @pzelasko in #1123
• Add m4a to special cases for num samples determination by @pzelasko in #1124
• making the kaldi import more robust by @vesis84 in #1129
• Tutorial materials in main readme page by @pzelasko in #1133
• optimize save_audios() by @vesis84 in #1131
• Fix bugs in resumable_download by @flyingleafe in #1135
• Arxiv badge by @desh2608 in #1136
• Fix docs build by @pzelasko in #1137
• Fix failing tests after repairing docs build by @pzelasko in #1138
• Remove deprecated code, make minor cleanups by @pzelasko in #1139
• Enforce deterministic RNG behavior in repeatedly flaky tests by @pzelasko in #1143
• Refactor audio.py into smaller modules by @pzelasko in #1144
• Fix broken save_audio by @flyingleafe in #1147
• Optimize cut_into_windows for long cuts by @flyingleafe in #1150
• Fixes for #1152 #1153 and #1154 by @pzelasko in #1156
• fix bugs in downloading voxpopuli corpus by @DongjiGao in #1165
• Support export_to_kaldi on resampled recordings by @sih4sing5hong5 in #1162
• Refactor CutSet.describe to enable parallel statistics computation by @pzelasko in #1168
• Allow dashes in feat CLI by @desh2608 in #1169
• Apply deterministic RNG to more unit tests by @pzelasko in #1173
• Add fix_manifests in all recipes by @desh2608 in #1128
• Fix small bug in eval2000 by @desh2608 in #1126
• Fix download in LibriCSS recipe by @desh2608 in #1148

New Contributors

• @sih4sing5hong5 made their first contribution in #1162
• @rilshok made their first contribution in #1160

Full Changelog: v1.16...v1.17