v1.8 Sudden Avalanche

Breaking changes

• Python 3.6 is no longer supported as of Lhotse v1.8. If you need to use Python 3.6, please revert to Lhotse 1.7 and earlier.

Highlights

• New experimental module of lhotse: workflows, now integrates optional third party packages that assist corpus creators in automated data curation. With release 1.8, we support OpenAI Whisper for automatic transcription and segmentation, and torchaudio Wav2Vec2/Hubert ASR bundles for forced alignment.

What's Changed

• Fix read and write in piped CLI by @desh2608 in #807
• Default behavior of CutSet.mix by @ZuoyunZheng in #809
• Adding more info about resampling options by @RuABraun in #815
• Add pad_silence option to extend_by by @desh2608 in #816
• Message when calling len() on LazyFilter by @desh2608 in #817
• Refactor cut and retain git blame history by @desh2608 in #820
• Audio backend refactoring and a workaround for FLAC reading from/writing to in-memory buffers by @pzelasko in #814
• Experimental Lhotse feature: corpus creation tools (workflows), starting with OpenAI Whisper support by @pzelasko in #824
• Drop support for Python 3.6 by @pzelasko in #829
• [workflow] Word-level forced alignment with pretrained models from Torchaudio by @pzelasko in #827

New Contributors

• @ZuoyunZheng made their first contribution in #809

Full Changelog: v1.7...v1.8