Merge pull request #109807 from oscholz/patch-11

Adding release notes for 1.11 March Release

Author: PRMerger9

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

@@ -1,22 +1,55 @@
 ---
-title: Release Notes - Speech service
+title: Release Notes - Speech Service
 titleSuffix: Azure Cognitive Services
 description: A running log of Speech Service feature releases, improvements, bug fixes, and known issues.
 services: cognitive-services
-author: brianem
+author: oliversc
 manager: jhakulin
 ms.service: cognitive-services
 ms.subservice: speech-service
 ms.topic: conceptual
 ms.date: 02/25/2020
-ms.author: brianem
+ms.author: oliversc
 ms.custom: seodec18
 ---
 
 # Release notes
+## Speech SDK 1.11.0: 2020-March release
+
+**New features**
+
+- Linux: Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/CentOS 7 x64 with [instructions](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/how-to-configure-rhel-centos-7) on how to configure the system for Speech SDK.
+- Linux: Added support for .NET Core C# on Linux ARM32 and ARM64. Read more [here](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/speech-sdk?tabs=linux). 
+- C#, C++: Added `UtteranceId` in `ConversationTranscriptionResult`, a consistent ID across all the intermediates and final speech recognition result. Details for [C#](https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/microsoft.cognitiveservices.speech.transcription.conversationtranscriptionresult?view=azure-dotnet), [C++](https://docs.microsoft.com/cpp/cognitive-services/speech/transcription-conversationtranscriptionresult).
+- Python: Added support for `Language ID`. Please see speech_sample.py in [GitHub repo](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/tree/master/samples/python/console).
+- Windows: Added compressed audio input format support on Windows platform for all the win32 console applications. Details [here](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/how-to-use-codec-compressed-audio-input-streams). 
+- JavaScript: Support speech synthesis (text-to-speech) in NodeJS. Learn more [here](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/tree/master/quickstart/javascript/node/text-to-speech). 
+- JavaScript: Add new API's to enable inspection of all send and received messages. Learn more [here](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/tree/master/quickstart/javascript). 
+		
+**Bug fixes**
+
+- C#, C++: Fixed an issue so `SendMessageAsync` now sends binary message as binary type. Details for [C#](https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/microsoft.cognitiveservices.speech.connection.sendmessageasync?view=azure-dotnet#Microsoft_CognitiveServices_Speech_Connection_SendMessageAsync_System_String_System_Byte___System_UInt32_), [C++](https://docs.microsoft.com/cpp/cognitive-services/speech/connection).
+- C#, C++: Fixed an issue where using `Connection MessageReceived` event may cause crash if `Recognizer` is disposed before `Connection` object. Details for [C#](https://docs.microsoft.com/dotnet/api/microsoft.cognitiveservices.speech.connection.messagereceived?view=azure-dotnet), [C++](https://docs.microsoft.com/cpp/cognitive-services/speech/connection#messagereceived).
+- Android: Audio buffer size from microphone decreased from 800ms to 100ms to improve latency.
+- Android: Fixed an [issue](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/issues/563) with x86 Android emulator in Android Studio.
+- JavaScript: Added support for Regions in China with the `fromSubscription` API. Details [here](https://docs.microsoft.com/javascript/api/microsoft-cognitiveservices-speech-sdk/speechconfig?view=azure-node-latest#fromsubscription-string--string-). 
+- JavaScript: Add more error information for connection failures from NodeJS.
+		
+**Samples**
+
+- Unity: Intent recognition public sample is fixed, where LUIS json import was failing. Details [here](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/issues/369).
+- Python: Sample added for `Language ID`. Details [here](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/blob/master/samples/python/console/speech_sample.py).
+	
+**Covid19 abridged testing**
+
+Due to working remotely over the last few weeks, we couldn't do as much manual device verification testing as we normally do. An example of this is testing microphone input and speaker output on Linux, iOS, and macOS. We haven't made any changes we think could have broken anything on these platforms, and our automated tests all passed. In the unlikely event that we missed something, please let us know on [GitHub](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/issues?page=2&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen).<br> 
+Thank you for your continued support. As always, please post questions or feedback on [GitHub](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/issues?page=2&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen) or [Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.microsoft.com/questions/tagged/731).<br>
+Stay healthy!
+
 ## Speech SDK 1.10.0: 2020-February release
 
 **New features**
+
  - Added Python packages to support the new 3.8 release of Python.
  - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)/CentOS 8 x64 support (C++, C#, Java, Python).
    > [!NOTE] 
@@ -28,6 +61,7 @@ ms.custom: seodec18
  - Updated speech recognition models for 19 locales for an average word error rate reduction of 18.6% (es-ES, es-MX, fr-CA, fr-FR, it-IT, ja-JP, ko-KR, pt-BR, zh-CN, zh-HK, nb-NO, fi-FL, ru-RU, pl-PL, ca-ES, zh-TW, th-TH, pt-PT, tr-TR). The new models bring significant improvements across multiple domains including Dictation, Call-Center Transcription and Video Indexing scenarios.
 
 **Bug fixes**
+
  - Fixed bug where Conversation Transcriber did not await  properly in JAVA APIs 
  - Android x86 emulator fix for Xamarin [GitHub issue](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/issues/363)
  - Add missing (Get|Set)Property methods to AudioConfig
@@ -36,9 +70,11 @@ ms.custom: seodec18
  - ID generation in Universal Windows Applications now uses an appropriately unique GUID algorithm; it previously and unintentionally defaulted to a stubbed implementation that often produced collisions over large sets of interactions.
 
  **Samples**
+ 
  - Unity sample for using Speech SDK with [Unity microphone and push mode streaming](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/tree/master/samples/unity/from-unitymicrophone)
 
 **Other changes**
+
  - [OpenSSL configuration documentation updated for Linux](https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/how-to-configure-openssl-linux)
 
 ## Speech SDK 1.9.0: 2020-January release
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 - JavaScript: Added support for `FromHost API` to ease use with on-prem containers and sovereign clouds. See documentation [here](speech-container-howto.md).
 - JavaScript: We now honor `NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED` thanks to a contribution from [orgads](https://github.com/orgads). See details [here](https://github.com/microsoft/cognitive-services-speech-sdk-js/pull/75).
 
-
 **Breaking changes**
 
 - `OpenSSL` has been updated to version 1.1.1b and is statically linked to the Speech SDK core library for Linux. This may cause a break if your inbox `OpenSSL` has not been installed to the `/usr/lib/ssl` directory in the system. Please check [our documentation](how-to-configure-openssl-linux.md) under Speech SDK docs to work around the issue.
 - We have changed the data type returned for C# `WordLevelTimingResult.Offset` from `int` to `long` to allow for access to `WordLevelTimingResults` when speech data is longer than 2 minutes.
 - `PushAudioInputStream` and `PullAudioInputStream` now send wav header information to the Speech Service based on `AudioStreamFormat`, optionally specified when they were created. Customers must now use the [supported audio input format](how-to-use-audio-input-streams.md). Any other formats will get sub-optimal recognition results or may cause other issues. 
 
-
 **Bug fixes**
 
 - See the `OpenSSL` update under Breaking changes above. We fixed both an intermittent crash and a performance issue (lock contention under high load) in Linux and Java. 
@@ -76,14 +110,12 @@ ms.custom: seodec18
 - JavaScript: added support for setting service properties, as added in 1.7.
 - JavaScript: fixed an issue where a connection error could result in continuous, unsuccessful websocket reconnect attempts.
 
-
 **Samples**
 
 - Added keyword recognition sample for Android [here](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/tree/master/samples/java/android/sdkdemo).
 - Added TTS sample for the server scenario [here](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/blob/master/samples/csharp/sharedcontent/console/speech_synthesis_server_scenario_sample.cs).
 - Added Multi-device conversation quickstarts for C# and C++ [here](quickstarts/multi-device-conversation.md).
 
-
 **Other changes**
 
 - Optimized SDK core library size on Android.