Merge pull request #224314 from dargilco/dargilco/1-18/release-notes-1-25

Speech SDK 1.25 release notes

Author: prmerger-automator[bot]

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

@@ -6,6 +6,40 @@ ms.date: 11/01/2022
 ms.author: eur
 ---
 
+### Speech SDK 1.25.0: January 2023 release
+
+#### Breaking changes
+
+- Language Identification (preview) APIs have been simplified. If you update to Speech SDK 1.25 and see a build break, please visit the [Language Identification (preview)](/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/language-identification) page to learn about the new property `SpeechServiceConnection_LanguageIdMode`. This single property replaces the two previous ones `SpeechServiceConnection_SingleLanguageIdPriority` and `SpeechServiceConnection_ContinuousLanguageIdPriority`. Prioritizing between low latency and high accuracy is no longer necessary following recent model improvements. Now, you only need to select whether to run at-start or continuous Language Identification when doing continuous speech recognition or translation.
+
+#### New features
+
+- **C#/C++/Java**: Embedded Speech SDK is now released under gated public preview. See [Embedded Speech (preview)](/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/embedded-speech) documentation. You can now do on-device speech-to-text and text-to-speech when cloud connectivity is intermittent or unavailable. Supported on Android, Linux, MacOS and Windows platforms
+- **C# MAUI**: Support added for iOS and Mac Catalyst targets in Speech SDK NuGet ([Customer issue](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/issues/1649))
+- **Unity**: Android x86_64 architecture added to Unity package ([Customer issue](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/issues/1715))
+- **Go**:
+  - ALAW/MULAW direct streaming support added for speech recognition ([Customer issue](https://github.com/microsoft/cognitive-services-speech-sdk-go/issues/81))
+  - Added support for PhraseGrammar. Thank you GitHub user [czkoko](https://github.com/czkoko) for the community contribution!
+- **C#/C++**: Intent Recognizer now supports Conversational Language Understanding models in C++ and C# with orchestration on the Microsoft service
+
+#### Bug fixes
+
+- Fix an occasional hang in **KeywordRecognizer** when trying to stop it
+- **Python**:
+  - Fix for getting Pronunciation Assessment results when `PronunciationAssessmentGranularity.FullText` is set ([Customer issue](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/issues/1763))
+  - Fix for gender property for Male voices not being retrieved, when getting speech synthesis voices
+- **JavaScript**
+  - Fix for parsing some WAV files that were recorded on iOS devices ([Customer issue](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk/issues/1774))
+  - JS SDK now builds without using npm-force-resolutions ([Customer issue](https://github.com/microsoft/cognitive-services-speech-sdk-js/issues/549))
+  - Conversation Translator now correctly sets service endpoint when using a speechConfig instance created using SpeechConfig.fromEndpoint()
+
+#### Samples
+
+- Added samples showing how to use Embedded Speech
+- Added Speech-to-text sample for MAUI
+
+  See [Speech SDK samples repository](https://github.com/Azure-Samples/cognitive-services-speech-sdk).
+
 ### Speech SDK 1.24.2: November 2022 release
 
 #### New features
@@ -15,13 +49,6 @@ ms.author: eur
 
 - **All programing languages**
     - Fixed an issue with encryption of embedded speech recognition models.
-- **JavaScript SDK**
-    - not included in this release
-
-- **Java**
-    - none
-- **Python**
-    - none
 
 ### Speech SDK 1.24.1: November 2022 release
 

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

@@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ Azure Cognitive Service for Speech is updated on an ongoing basis. To stay up-to
 
 ## Recent highlights
 
+* 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 SDK 1.24.0 and Speech CLI 1.24.0 were released in October 2022. 
 * Speech-to-text and text-to-speech container versions were updated in October 2022.
 * TTS Service November 2022, several voices for `es-MX`, `it-IT`, and `pr-BR` locales were made generally available.