V‑Spark 3.2 Release Notes
V‑Spark Version 3.2 provides new language models, significant performance, usability, and stability improvements, and API enhancements to simplify transcript and audio retrieval.
Added new
request
API to retrieve Text and JSON transcripts and MP3 audio from V‑Spark outside of the traditional callback interface. Therequest
API provides 4 verbs to query job status and retrieve results by RequestID:status
,summary
,details
, andresult
. See "Using the V‑Spark 3.5.0 API" for more information.Added Support for Non-English Languages
These language models support the following features (requires Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) greater than or equal to 5.4.1):
File loading
Playback and Display
Ad-hoc Search
The following features are not supported in these language models for 3.2:
Applications
Application Templates
Reporting
Internet licensing supported in V‑Spark. Internet licensing simplifies license management, making it easy to remotely add, upgrade, or update licenses.
Improved responsiveness of application graphs, summary tables, and settings pages
Improved timezone handling in the user interface, databases, and JSON transcripts. Date and time now stored in UTC in JSON transcripts.
Expanded callback support to include SFTP and Amazon S3, providing the ability to automatically send Text and JSON transcripts and MP3 audio to a URL
Additional ASR tags can now be configured in the V‑Spark UI
Redesigned date range pickers for improved performance and usability
Icon added to Settings pages to enable direct navigation to Dashboard view of applications and folders
Simplified folder hierarchy is retained in downloaded zip files, preventing filename collisions
Increased usability of Activity log: Filter settings are stored as query parameters to enable sharing URLs with other users, and "API" type added to filter log entries related to API calls
System administrators now have the ability to restrict users from downloading MP3, JSON, and text transcriptions from the File Details page.
Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
Approximate search mode is no longer supported
Fixes
Corrected and improved metadata handling in Voci JSON output. The intermediate
<metadata>
section was removed from the<client_data>
section to flatten the JSON and simplify client data processing. See the Voci JSON Output Format Guide for more information.Application queries using ~n are now scored correctly even if a turn contains one of the phrase words multiple times