Merge pull request #228800 from dargilco/dargilco/release-notes-1.27-0.10

Speech SDK release notes 1.26

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/includes/release-notes/release-notes-cli.md

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 ms.author: eur
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+### Speech CLI 1.26.0: March 2023 release
+
+Updated to use Speech SDK 1.26.0.
+
+### Speech CLI 1.25.0: January 2023 release
+
+Updated to use Speech SDK 1.25.0.
+
 ### Speech CLI 1.24.0: October 2022 release
 
 Uses Speech SDK 1.24.0.

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/includes/release-notes/release-notes-sdk.md

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 ms.author: eur
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+### Speech SDK 1.26.0: March 2023 release
+
+### Breaking changes
+
+* Bitcode has been disabled in all iOS targets in the following packages: Cocoapod with xcframework, Nuget (for Xamarin and MAUI) and Unity. The change is due to Apple's deprication of bitcode support from Xcode 14 and onwards. This change also means if you are using Xcode 13 version or you have explicitly enabled the bitcode on your application using the Speech SDK, you may encounter an error saying "framework does not contain bitcode and you must rebuild it". To resolve this issue, make sure your targets have bitcode disabled.
+* Minimum iOS deployment target has been upgraded to 11.0 in this release, which means armv7 HW is no longer supported.
+
+#### New features
+
+* Embedded (on-device) Speech Recognition now supports both 8 and 16 kHz sampling rate input audio (16-bit per sample, mono PCM).
+* Speech Synthesis now reports connection, network and service latencies in the result to help end-to-end latency optimization.
+* New tiebreaking rules for [Intent Recognition with simple pattern matching](../../how-to-use-simple-language-pattern-matching.md). The more character bytes that are matched, will win over pattern matches with lower character byte count. Example: Pattern "Click {something} in the top right" will win over "Click {something}"
+
+#### Bug fixes
+
+* Speech Synthesis: fix a bug where the emoji is not correct in word boundary events.
+* [Intent Recognition with with Conversational Language Understanding (CLU)](../../get-started-intent-recognition-clu.md):
+  * Intents from the CLU Orchestrator Workflow now appear correctly.
+  * The JSON result is now available via the property ID `LanguageUnderstandingServiceResponse_JsonResult`.
+* Speech recognition with keyword activation: Fix for missing ~150ms audio after a keyword recognition.
+* Fix for Speech SDK NuGet iOS MAUI Release build, reported by customer ([GitHub issue](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/issues/1835))
+
+#### Samples
+
+* Fix for Swift iOS sample, reported by customer ([GitHub issue](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/issues/1759))
+
+
 ### Speech SDK 1.25.0: January 2023 release
 
 #### Breaking changes

articles/cognitive-services/Speech-Service/releasenotes.md

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 ## Recent highlights
 
+* Speech SDK 1.26.0 was released in March 2023.
 * Custom Speech-to-Text container disconnected mode was released in January 2023.
-* Speech SDK 1.25.0 was released in January 2023.
 * Text-to-speech Batch synthesis API is available in public preview.
 * Speech-to-text REST API version 3.1 is generally available.
 * Speech-to-text and text-to-speech container versions were updated in October 2022.