SpeechMark Product Release Notes
SpeechMark Product: The SpeechMark MATLAB Toolbox, Cross-Platform Edition
Operating Systems Supported: All supporting MATLAB v.2017b and later
Product Version: 1.5
Public Release Date : 2024-4-8
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Installation Notes–PLEASE READ
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1) This product is a standard MATLAB toolbox. To use it, a valid instance of MATLAB (version R2017b or newer) must be installed, as well as a valid version of the MATLAB Signal Processing Toolbox. A valid version of the MATLAB Image Processing toolbox, if present, will be used for certain performance enhancements but is not required.
2) This version includes all code and documentation for v1.5 of 2024-4-8.
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Resolved Problems:
1) Fixed multiple defects in ‘landmarks’ with over-aggressive voicing and “+g-v”.
2) Improve fallback rule for ‘nonbreathy’.
3) Fixed defects in ‘pltnz’ and ‘plot3vec’ for white-background color changes.
4) Bug fixes in ‘colormap_std’, ‘best_formant_list’, ‘estnoisegram’, ‘estnoisesig’, ‘formant_decay_limits’, ‘mat_conslms’, ‘mat_streamlms’, ‘mat_vowel_segs’, ‘sortperm’, ‘vowel_segs_full’, ‘vowel_segs_std’, and ‘wavelyze_formants’.
5) Help is overhauled in ‘abrupt_events’, ‘abrupt_lms’, ‘landmarks’, ‘lm_abfeatures’, ‘lm_allfeatures’, ‘lm_closant_relndxs’, ‘lm_codes’, ‘lm_duration’.
6) Removed the error function from the Toolbox as it was overriding Matlab’s error function.
7) Replaced calls to ‘wavread’ by ‘audioread’ in some Toolbox functions.
8) Fixed case-sensitive defects in functions starting with DTChk_ .
9) Bug fixes in ‘plot_vowelarea’ and ‘plot_quad_limits’.
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Enhancements:
1) Several enhancements in ‘vowel_segs_nsil’ equivalent to ‘vowel_segs_full’.
2) Added new function ‘deg_unvstop_asp16’, which gives the correctness of unvoiced, aspirated stop.
3) Optimized the running-time of ‘formant_freq_ratio’, ‘formant_decay_limits’, ‘check_formant12_quad’, ‘check_formant13_quad’, and ‘best_formant_list’.
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Other Changes:
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1) Installer does not require the SpeechMark folder to be named ‘Contents’.
2) Added two new demos, smdemo3 and smdemo4.
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Known Defects and Limitations:
1) xl_* functions do not support tables.
2) MATLAB system function BUILDDOCSEARCHDB is not used for SpeechMark documentation.