Version 3.14.3

SpeechRecognition 3.14.3 was out🎉
Get all of these and more with a quick pip install --upgrade SpeechRecognition.
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What's Changed

Improvements

• Fix vosk's URL model list broken link in error message by @sebampuero in #836
• refactor: Extract logic as AudioData.from_file() by @ftnext in #834
• Add --prompt & --verbose in python -m speech_recognition.recognizers.whisper_api.openai by @ftnext in #837

New Contributors

• @sebampuero made their first contribution in #836

Full Changelog: 3.14.2...3.14.3

Version 3.14.2

SpeechRecognition 3.14.2 was out🎉
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What's Changed

Features

• Support gpt-4o-transcribe and gpt-4o-mini-transcribe (in whisper_api.openai recognizer) by @ftnext in #833

Improvements

• Tidy up third-party directory by @ftnext in #826

Full Changelog: 3.14.1...3.14.2

Version 3.14.1

SpeechRecognition 3.14.1 was out🎉
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What's Changed

Improvements

• Support PocketSphinx >= 5
  • Fix PocketSphinx tests failure on ubuntu-24.04 by @ftnext in #823

Full Changelog: 3.14.0...3.14.1

Version 3.14.0

SpeechRecognition 3.14.0 was out🎉
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What's Changed

Features

• Support Faster Whisper by @ftnext in #814

Improvements

• Refactor recognize_whisper() to support Whisper variants in future by @ftnext in #813
• Remove recognize_whisper_api (Use recognize_openai instead) by @ftnext in #815
• Make copyright year of license not need to update by @ftnext in #818

Full Changelog: 3.13.0...3.14.0

Version 3.13.0

SpeechRecognition 3.13.0 was out🎉
Get all of these and more with a quick pip install --upgrade SpeechRecognition.
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What's Changed

Improvement (Google Cloud Speech-to-Text API)

• Adds Parameter use_enhanced and model to GoogleCloudSpeech (Fix #734) by @HideyoshiNakazone in #735
• Refine google_cloud recognizer's parameters by @ftnext in #812
  • Introduce extra: pip install SpeechRecognition[google-cloud]
  • Delegate to google-auth (Deprecate passing credentials JSON) by @ftnext in #811
• Bugfixes
  • Remove trailing space by @ftnext in #810
  • Correct API parameters from CamelCase to snake_case

misc

• Use pipx to lint simpler and faster by @cclauss in #792
• Use pipx for lint and rstcheck by @ftnext in #807

New Contributors

• @HideyoshiNakazone made their first contribution in #735

Full Changelog: 3.12.0...3.13.0

Version 3.12.0

SpeechRecognition 3.12.0 was out🎉
Get all of these and more with a quick pip install --upgrade SpeechRecognition.
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What's Changed

New features

Groq Support

• recognizer_instance.recognize_groq() (@ftnext in #797 & #803)
  • Use with an environment variable GROQ_API_KEY
• Rename to recognizer_instance.recognize_openai() (Deprecate recognizer_instance.recognize_whisper_api()) (@ftnext in #801)
  • SpeechRecognition supports Whisper API served OpenAI and Groq
  • Use with an environment variable OPENAI_API_KEY
  • OpenAI's optional parameters partially supported (@ftnext in #802, Idea from @wronkiew #676)
• Decision: make the responsibility of checking environment variables each library (not SpeechRecognition) (@ftnext in #804)
  • export XXX_API_KEY=... or os.environ["XXX_API_KEY"] = ...

Python 3.13 Support (experimental)

• Install aifc and audioop in Python 3.13 by @ftnext in #781
• Run tests on Python 3.13 (excluding whisper-local) by @ftnext in #785

Improvement

Cleanup extras

• Tidy dependencies: requests by @ftnext in #780
• Extract pocketsphinx extra by @ftnext in #787

Others

• Install PyAudio in unittest Action by @ftnext in #774
• Adopt pytest by @ftnext in #779
• Fix "SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: bdist_wheel.universal is deprecated" by @ftnext in #773

Full Changelog: 3.11.0...3.12.0

Version 3.11.0

SpeechRecognition 3.11.0 was out🎉
Get all of these and more with a quick pip install --upgrade SpeechRecognition.
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What's Changed

New features

• Add stream= kwarg to Recognizer.listen by @clusterfudge in #757

Improvements

• Support Python maintenance: Add 3.12, Drop 3.8 by @ftnext in #770
• Remove deprecated distutils @ftnext in #768 and #769
  • Support pip install SpeechRecognition[audio]

New Contributors

• @clusterfudge made their first contribution in #757

Full Changelog: 3.10.4...3.11.0

Version 3.10.4

SpeechRecognition 3.10.4 was out🎉
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What's Changed

New features

• Support M1 Mac by @ftnext in #745
• Enable to pass SSL endpoint to cope with WinError 10054 by @ftnext in #754
  • Thanks to @Hexer-7 #751

Improvements

• Migrate from TravisCI by @ftnext in #741 #742
  • Fix code according to flake8
• Run unittests on Windows in CI by @ftnext in #746

Full Changelog: 3.10.3...3.10.4

Version 3.10.3

SpeechRecognition 3.10.3 was out🎉
Get all of these and more with a quick pip install --upgrade SpeechRecognition.
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What's Changed

Improvements

• Tweak installation by @ftnext in #740
  • Support pip install SpeechRecognition[whisper-local]
  • Support pip install SpeechRecognition[whisper-api]
• Add tests with mock by @ftnext (#738, #739)

Full Changelog: 3.10.2...3.10.3

Version 3.10.2

SpeechRecognition 3.10.2 was out🎉
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What's Changed

Bugfixes

• Updated to the latest OpenAI API changes, and fixed #720 by @herrjemand in #729

New Contributors

• @herrjemand made their first contribution in #729

Thanks to all contributors!

Full Changelog: 3.10.1...3.10.2