v1.20 - Pining for the Fjords

What's Changed

New features

• Extended the subset of lhotse that works without installing torchaudio by @pzelasko in #1253 #1255
• Ensure drop_last=False always returns an equal number of mini-batches by re-distributing and/or duplicating some data by @pzelasko in #1277
• Improved CPU memory usage and shuffling + bucketing in DynamicBucketingSampler by @pzelasko in #1276
• Enable seed randomization in dynamic samplers by @pzelasko in #1278

Recipes

• Fluent Speech Commands dataset, SLU task by @HSTEHSTEHSTE in #1272

Other improvements

• Update docs with env vars used by Lhotse by @pzelasko in #1252
• support whisper large v3; deepspeed launcher rank world_size setting by @yuekaizhang in #1260
• Fix non-deterministic tests by @pzelasko in #1261
• Fix duplication issues in CutSet.mix() by @pzelasko in #1268
• Support controllable CutSet.mux weights in multiprocess dataloading by @pzelasko in #1266
• Fix distributed sampler initialization and exceeded sampler warning false positives by @pzelasko in #1270
• Install kaldi-native-io explicitly in the kaldi doc example. by @csukuangfj in #1275
• Allow duplicate cut IDs in a CutSet (CutSet is list-like instead of dict-like) by @pzelasko in #1279

New Contributors

• @HSTEHSTEHSTE made their first contribution in #1272

Full Changelog: v1.19...v1.20