BAS - SpeechRecorder release notes

• 6.9.2

  • Bug fix ID0121 "Security issue: Speaker code was not validated."
  • Update to OpenJDK 17.0.15+6

6.8.7

• Session remains in active state if an error occurs when starting playback
• Speaker XML database file contains empty informedConsents element

• 6.8.8

  • Windows installer vulnerability (WiX toolset CVE-2024-29188 vulnerability)
  • Update to OpenJDK 17.0.10+7

6.8.7

• Session remains in active state if an error occurs when starting playback
• Speaker XML database file contains empty informedConsents element

6.8.5

• Update to OpenJDK 17.0.8.1+1
• Improved security with XML file handling

• 6.8.4

  • Bug fix ID0118 "The update manager does not find the matching installation package for a certain system architecture."
  • Added installation package for macOS on Apple Silicon processors M1,M2. This versioon runs without Rosetta2 emulation.
  • Update dependency libraries.

• 6.8.1

  • Security updates of Apache Batik (SVG prompting support) and the Java runtime.

• 6.8.0

  • Activated combined plain text and audio presenter.

• 6.7.0

  • New prompt phase 'prerecordingonly' which shows the prompt only during the pre recording phase (traffic light: red/yellow).
  • Update Java runtime to 17.0.2_8

• 6.6.1

  • Added missing DLL file in Windows installation.
  • Use Java 17 for Windows installation.

• 6.6.0

  • Added border start stop signal.

• 6.5.1

  • Bug fix ID0117 "GUI problems with exceptions with scripts that contain at least one media prompt with a source URL whose target file does not exist."

• 6.5.1

  • Bug fix ID0116 "Audio source exception using beep with default beep audio file"

• 6.5.0

  • Added menu item to export recording script.

• 6.3.4 (macOS only)

  • Mitigate bug ID0114 "Incorrect appearance with macOS dark theme"

• 6.2.6

  • Manual / quick start update.

• 6.2.4

  • Removed unused attribute in script DTD

• 6.2.2

  • Formatted text prompts (without requirement for external SVG,RTF or HTML prompt media files)
  • Separate prompt presenter to show (animated) GIFs
  • Open project from command line.
  • Extended workspace projects panel context menu
  • Alphabetically ordered project list

• 4.4.52 (macOS only)

  • ID0112 2020-02-12 "HTML prompts do not work on macOS. Prompt display appears empty"
  • Use Java AdoptOpenJDK LTS version 11.0.6_10

• 4.4.50

  • ID0111 2019-11-20 "The TextGrid generated by SpeechRecorder lacks a space between `intervals` and `[0]`. It should be `intervals [0]:` not `intervals[0]:`."
  • Back to Java AdoptOpenJDK LTS version 11. (11.0.5_10)

• 4.4.48

  • ID0109 2019-07-08 "Export to EMU-DB: The level definitions do not configure the corresponding required attribute definition with the same name."
  • ID0110 2019-07-08 "Export to EMU-DB: Directory chooser duplicates last part of path when actually the empty content of the directory was selected."

• 4.4.46

  • ID0106 2019-07-02 "Wrong link in project references editor into manual."
  • ID0107 2019-07-02 "Button to continue in autorecording mode was not localized."

• 4.4.44

  • ID0103 2019-06-16 "Reset to defaults in prompt configuration UI resets to auto prompt play to configuration default (true) instead of to configuration for new projects (false)"
  • ID0104 2019-06-27 "The 'Order' 'randomized' should not be displayed and selectable in the script UI editor."
  • ID0105 2019-06-27 "EMU-DB export: The annotations of a bundle are not shown in EMU-webapp hierarchy if a level is missing in its annotation, e.g if no annotation template exists."

• 4.4.42

  • Fixed: Script editor drops media source URL of second media item if the script is not immediately saved.
  • Fixed: Random crashes on start of videos on Windows.
  • Fixed: Seamless recording together with "Advance to next recording" does not work.
  • Linux version uses same packaged JRE as for Windows and macOS (AdoptOpenJDK JRE 12.0.1+12).

• 4.4.24 (Mac OS X only)

  • Support audio device names containing non-ASCII characters on Mac OS X. (Not tested yet)

• 4.4.22 (Mac OS X only)

  • Application updater uses encrypted https instead of http to fetch list of available updates.

• 4.4.20 (Mac OS X only)

  • Fixed: Mac OS X 10.14 Mojave: Recordings have no sound level. SpeechRecorder application did not request microphone usage. (Fix not tested yet.)

• 4.4.16

  • Fixed: Script editor did not work for prompt items with multiple media items in arbitrary order.
  • Fixed: Script editor always used resource directory of the first project for which the script was edited.

• 4.4.10

  • Recording items can be grouped.
  • Project export as EMU Speech Database Management System (EMU-SDMS) database.
  • Project export optionally without session data (speaker database and recordings).
  • Recording script prompt instructions and comment can be imported from text table.
  • Audio playback selection bar.
  • Navigation through items is possible during playback now. Playback will stop.
  • Technical note: Windows and Mac OS X version run on OpenJDK 11 now
  • Technical note: Refactoring of internal structure
  • Technical note: Windows MSI installer has changed
  • Technical note: Apache Batik SVG library update to version 1.10 (Mac and Windows, Linux uses version of OS)

• 3.28.0

  • WARNING! Removed multi-channel capable audio interface on Windows!

• 3.24.0

  • Fixed: ID0085 Recording session info file is not written to session directory in seamless and capture session scope mode
  • ID0086 Wrong information in recording session info file regarding recording sequences
  • ID0087 Duplicate display of ID in speaker data view
  • Audio controller is stopped when the script is edited or the speaker database is displayed.

• 3.22.10

  • Removed obsolete menu item in settings menu.

• 3.22.8 (Mac OS X only)

  • Fixed: CoreAudio adapter is now working with multi-stream devices.

• 3.22.2

  • Fixed: ID0082 Level meter shows wrong levels if big endian encoded output wave files
  • Fixed: ID0083 Audio format not supported using Mac OS X CoreAudio and high end audio interfaces

• 3.22.0

  • Fixed: ID0081 Level meter does not show levels for advanced audio formats (multiple channels, high resolution)
  • Fixed: ID0080 Plain text prompt presenter ignores right to left text direction (e.g. for Arabic text) for the words.
  • Fixed: ID0079 Mac OS X CoreAudio audio interface adapter: Only supports sample sizes given as physical sample size of audio device. (Often 24-bit for USB audio interfaces)
  • Fixed: ID0078 Mac OS X CoreAudio audio interface adapter: Is sometimes not able to set the project sample rate (asynchronously)

• 3.20.0 (Mac OS X only)

  • Fixed: ID0077 CoreAudio audio interface adapter does not work in full duplex mode

• 3.18.0

  • Fixed: ID0074 Auto annotation using only the TextGrid file persistence causes a display error
  • Fixed: ID0075 Image prompts are rendered with low quality if images have low resolution
  • Fixed: ID0076 Auto annotation writes empty Praat TextGrid files which cannot be handled by Praat
  • Fixed: ID0071 Media prompt errors leave SpeechRecorder in an undefined state. Experimenter can only quit the application.
  • Fixed: ID0070 and ID0072 Some error messages appeared on the speaker monitor instead of experimenter monitor.

• 3.12.0

  • Added auto annotation persistence for MAUS processing (template text file without filename suffix).

• 3.10.0

  • Fixed: Prompt instructions cannot be completely deleted in script editor UI.
  • Improved video prompt presenter (Windows only).
  • Improved playback for some audio devices (stop during drain).
  • Recording script prompt file can be selected manually.

• 3.8.2

  • Fixed: Missing DLL redistributable.

• 3.8.0

  • Added project configuration option to enable start and stop of media prompts while recording.

• 3.6.2

  • Video prompts (Windows only) can be started and stopped by mouse click.

• 3.6.0

  • Fixed: ID0054 Wrong annotation file names in non overwrite (versioning) mode
  • Fixed: ID0056 Recording with limited duration does not stop in capture scope session mode when media prompt (audio,video) is shown.
  • Limited support for video prompts on Windows

• 3.4.2

  • Fixed: ID0050 On Mac OS X the speaker window is not automatically displayed on a connected external display.
  • Fixed: ID0051 Recording script volume control for audio prompts has no effect.
  • Fixed: ID0052 No sound output for audio prompts or beep on Linux using PulseAudio.
  • Fixed: ID0053 Help window appears on external connected screen.
  • Adjustable gain for prompt beep audio file.
  • Selectable prompt beep audio file.

• 3.2.0

  • Fixed: ID0047 After project configuration change SpeechRecorder always loads the speaker with the highest ID and not the speaker loaded before.
  • Fixed: ID0048 Recording script is not randomized when speaker has changed.

• 3.0.6

  • Fixed: High CPU Load when capturing from some Linux devices. (Bug ID 0045)
  • Fixed: Recording script cannot be saved. (Linux/Mac OS X only)(Bug ID 0046)

• 3.0.4

  • Fixed: If a project is immediately loaded after renaming in the workspace view, it tries to load the script by the old script file path and fails. (Bug ID0043)
  • Fixed: Could not rename projects with blanks or other special characters in the name. (Bug ID0044)

• 3.0.2

  • Projects can be configured to hold the capture device open during the recording session. This is the default for new projects beginning with this version.
  • New XML based file format for speakers database.
  • Speaker database viewer shows speaker/session ID (first column).
  • Text table export capability for recording script and speaker database
  • Prompt text can be written to annotation file. Supported formats are EMU JSON, Praat TextGrid and plain text.
  • Fixed: Project configuration panel always shows project name of initially opened project. (Bug ID0040)
  • Fixed: Unchecked configuration property 'Reset peak on start of recording' does not work. The level meter peak hold is always reset. (Bug ID0041)
  • Fixed: Peak hold reset button does not work. (Bug ID0042)

• 2.12.18

  • Fixed: Capture using channel routing did not request the line with the adapted format. Error messages "Invalid format" may occur.(Bug ID0038)

• 2.12.16

  • If last section is of type autorecording recording progress is not stopped at the end of the script. (Affects only previous 2.12.x versions) (Bug ID0032)

• 2.12.14

  • Changed calculation of acceptable minimum recording length: Taking audio interface line activation delay into account (250ms default, 1250ms on Mac OS X).

• 2.12.12

  • Fixed: Mac OS X: Speaker database viewer or script editor have odd GUI behavior (different colors, selected buttons do not show their selected state) when opened for second time (Bug ID 0031)

• 2.12.10

  • Fixed: Speaker index counter is not reset on project close (Bug ID 0028)
  • Fixed: Backups files were not updated if they exist (Bug ID 0029)
  • Fixed: Integrated HTML help search function returned wrong (outdated) results (Bug ID 0030)
  • Improved level meter
  • Improved speaker database UI
  • Script editor: Multiple prompt items can be selected and their equal properties can be edited
  • Improved sonagram: Added controls for DFT size,window size,max. frequency,dynamic range and preemphasis
  • New sonagram defaults: Max. frequency: 5kHz, dyn. range: 70dB, preemphasis: 6dB/octave
  • Added pedestrian lights as alternative start stop signals
  • Workaround for likely bug in some multichannel USB drivers which causes occasionally empty recordings: Experimenter is prompted if recording is much shorter then expected
  • Fixed potential bug which could cause shortened recordings

• 2.10.16

  • Fixed: In Audio device chooser expert view the add button is sometimes not enabled. (Bug ID 0026)
  • Fixed: File handle of project configuration was not closed after save.

• 2.10.12

  • Fixed: Update manager cannot handle different OS versions

• 2.10.10

  • Fixed: Import of already existing media file to resources will delete file (empty,zero length)! (Bug ID 0022)
  • Fixed: Wrong display of Khmer characters on Windows 7 (Bug ID 0021)
  • Fixed: Script writer does not generate pretty (indented) XML. (Bug ID 0018)
  • Fixed: Wrong effective recording mode display in progress viewer e.g. autorecording, if a default project setting is used. (Bug ID 0017)
  • Fixed: Speechrecorder tries to parse hidden project files. Project cannot be opened. (Bug ID 0015)
  • Fixed: Speechrecorder can no longer be operated if user sets non number values to number input fields like postrecording in script editor and commits with OK (Bug ID 0014)
  • Plain prompt texts are displayed with anti-aiasing
  • For prompt, instructions and description font alternative font families can be configured. (related to bug ID 0021)
  • Some project configuration panels can be reset or reset to defaults.
  • Input channels of soundcard can be arbitrary routed to channels of recording file. Playback output channels can be shifted for multichannel soundcards
  • Postrecording phase (yellow traffic light) can be forced

• 2.8.4

  • Applied workaround: SpeechRecorder opens too many audio file handles (Bug ID0012)
  • Fixed: Audio prompter did not close audio prompt files (Bug ID0013)

• 2.8.1

  • Fixed: Build of 2.8.0 for Mac OS X was broken. (Recording,project preferences and table import did not work)
  • "About" splash screen does not appear on startup anymore.

• 2.8.0

  • Added itemcode generator to script editor.
  • Audio device for prompt and beep playback is configurable.
  • Behaviour of audio prompts is more conforming to 2.2.x versions.
  • Improved handling of speaker display frame or window.

• 2.6.14

  • Fixed: Dual monitor mode does not work properly. Speaker addressed window does not appear or maximize. (Bug ID 0006)
  • Fixed: Special characters in project path are not supported. (Bug ID 0005)
  • Fixed: Incorrect display of instruction numbering with prompt phase set to recording. (Bug ID 0004)

• 2.6.6

  • Fixed: Non recording items do not work.

• 2.6.4

  • Fixed: Scripts with empty metadata key or value could not be saved.
  • Fixed: Performance issues with GUI script editor.

• 2.6.0

  • Update notification for the installation packages.
  • Integrated Standard and AJS versions into one installation package
  • Element 'nonrecording' is implemented.
  • The attribute 'beep' is implemented.
  • The signal display is able to display multichannel 24/32bit recordings.
  • Recording script editor.
  • Improved control over audio prompts.

• 2.2.14

  • Fixed in installation package build 03: DSJavaSound library update to 0.2.1: COM library was not correctly initialized, caused truncated to 31 chars capture names. (Standard JavaSound still has this problem)
  • Fixed: Speaker data editor did not accept the value of an active cell editor.
  • Up to 4000ms audio line buffer size with AJS (Alternative JavaSound).
  • New Speechrecorder icons!
  • Speaker data editor accepts editing of all columns even if the speaker code was not entered.

• 2.2.10

  • Fixed: Capture engine does not try to read from audio line if line is stopped.
  • Fixed: Logfile handlers were not closed on when a project was closed.
  • Fixed: Reset peak (hold) on start of recording option in project configuration has no effect.

• 2.2.8

  • Added image MIME type PNG (image/png).
  • Fixed: Error message "Cannot associate element ..." with turkish (and other) locales.

• 2.2.7

  • Numbering of instructions is switchable.
  • Fixed: "null" strings will not be inserted for empty fields in speaker database
  • Fixed: Column entries after skipped column entries moved over to the skipped position
  • Fixed: Transport stop button label was not always correctly set for manual mode

• 2.2.6

  • Fixed: Filehandle of the script was not closed. (Windows users could not edit the script, while Speechrecorder was running)
  • Visibility of action buttons is configurable now.
  • Progress viewer table scrolls automatically to current item.

• 2.2.5

  • Fixed: Speakerdisplay settings of project configuration are not ignored anymore.
  • Fixed: Section mode, prerecording and postrecording delay settings of project configuration are not ignored anymore.
  • Fixed: Timelogging of prerecording,recording,postrecording was broken.
  • Fixed: Export on Windows with wrong file separator ("\" backslash).
  • Fixed (hopefully): Some audio events caused deadlock hangups.
  • Speaker database is saved if changed to avoid dataloss on hangup.
  • Increased audio line buffer sizes.
  • Improved reliability.

• 2.2.4

  • Formatted text (HTML,RTF) is aligned in the middle same as plain text.
  • It is possible now to write HTML and RTF prompts directly to the recording script in a CDATA section.
  • Added project export feature
  • Fixed: Removed ALSA workaround in capture engine.

• 2.2.3

  • Fixed: Switched off keyboard control on speaker/project editing
  • Added audio prompting feature
  • Added library version infos

• 2.2.2

  • Fixed: hangup using keyboard control
  • Session ID is visible in Speaker window
  • Added Java Runtime and script file path info

• 2.2.0

  • Added keyboard control capability

• 2.1.3

  • Java 5.0 required
  • Single JAR file splitted into three JAR libraries
  • New audio controller interface
  • Improved level display
  • Running with incremental garbage collector
  • Logging and timelogging configurable

• 2.0.3