Vcore (tm) Release 11.0
April 2016
NEW FEATURES IN THE 11.0 RELEASE
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New Features in SayIt:
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Summary of New Features in SayIt:
Reset your Own Password or Retrieve your Own Username from SayIt - If you have forgotten your username or password, you can now retrieve them from a link on the voice client Sign In screen.
Popup Shortcut Menu is Resizable - You can now change the size of the Popup shortcut menu.
Record a Vocabulary Pronunciation (Enhanced Dictation Users) - Users assigned to the speaker-independent Enhanced dictation engine can now record a pronunciation for a vocabulary term.
New Account Notification Messages - Account Notifications messages are configured in SayIt Administrator and appear to SayIt users in a popup window.
Update Required Messages - With the 11.0 release we now keep track of the version of the SayIt voice client that is running on a user's computer. Starting with the next release, if a new version of SayIt that is deemed to be incompatible with an older version is updated on a system, any users who are currently logged in to SayIt will receive a message.
Select and Say Allows Change of Paste Location - Some of you may have discovered that in some instances Select and Say would no longer paste text where you placed your cursor before you pasted the text. This is now working as it did previously: instead of having to place your cursor before you open Select and Say, you can once again place your cursor where you want your text to go just before clicking the green checkmark/accepting the dictation.
New Features in SayIt Administrator:
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Summary of New Features in SayIt Administrator:
Retrieve Your Username or Reset Your Own Password - You can now retrieve your own username or reset your own password using a new link on the SayIt Administrator login screen.
Send Password Reset and Forgotten Username Emails to Users Directly from SayIt Administrator - Administrators with the "Customer Administrator" access type will be able to send emails to users who have forgotten their username or password directly from the Accounts page in SayIt Administrator.
Sentence Modeling Available for Enhanced Dictation Users - Sentence Modeling has been enabled for users and organizations assigned to the speaker-independent Enhanced dictation engine. Sentence models can only be added in SayIt Administrator.
Corrections from Review & Correct Added as Sentence Modeling for Enhanced Engine Users - A new system-level job has been created which will update user accounts overnight with sentence modeling from corrections made on the Review & Correct page.
"Sounds Like" Replaces Phonemes for Vocabulary Terms - Instead of having to work with phonemes for vocabulary term you can now use the Sounds Like field to add a more understandable pronunciation for a vocabulary term for the Enhanced dictation engine organizations and accounts.
Improved Account Notification - New functionality of the Account Notification feature allows you to have multiple notifications per group, to send the notification to a subset of users in a group, and to create fancy new messages that include text formatting and hyperlinks.
Word Finder for Enhanced Dictation Engine - You can now use the Word Finder feature to find unwanted of misspelled words that appear in an Enhanced dictation engine user's dictation transcripts.
General Medicine 8 kHz Topic for the Enhanced Dictation Engine for Batch Submissions - There is a new General Medicine topic with 8 kHz audio sampling rate available for testing with batch submissions.
New Update Enhanced Engine Users Job - The new Update Enhanced Engine Users job will apply corrected transcripts (from corrections done on the Review & Correct page) as sentence modeling to Enhanced dictation user accounts. The job (which is available to SYSTEM-level administrators only) will also update user accounts assigned to the Enhanced dictation engine with any new vocabulary and sentence model documents that have been applied since the last time the job was run
New Features in the SayIt Audio Guide:
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New Features in Shortcut Designer:
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Summary of New Features in Shortcut Designer:
Configure the Output Text of HTML Automations - You can now change the order of or remove text that is pasted from HTML automation shortcuts.
New Output Separator Component - Add carriage returns, tabs, or text to customize your HTML output text.
New Placeholder Component - Add a SayIt Variable including username, first name, last name, etc. to the output text in an HTML automation.
Duplicate an HTML Component - You can now copy an existing HTML component and all of its settings.
New "Hotkey" Component Property - Configure a hotkey to quickly navigate to a field in a shortcut.
Action Button Can Insert Text - The Action button can now be configured to insert text.
Username & Password Retrieval Link on Shortcut Designer Login - You can now reset your password or retrieve your username from the Shortcut Designer login screen.
Preview Instructions available from Shortcut Designer - You can now click the How to Launch in SayIt link in the upper right corner of the Shortcut Designer to get instructions on how to Preview your Shortcut (in SayIt).
New Features in SayIt HTTP API:
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8 kHz .ogg Audio Files Now Acceptable for Dictation - You can now upload dictation audio in 8 kHZ .ogg format. You must select the "General Medicine 8 kHz" topic for the Enhanced dictation engine in SayIt Administrator.
New SoX Audio File Conversion Recipes for Converting .wav files to 8 Hz .ogg - There are two new command-line recipes for converting any mono or stereo .wav file to dictation format 8 Hz .ogg.
FEATURES REMOVED FROM THE 11.0 RELEASE
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SayIt:
Multi-Word Vocabulary Terms No Longer Return Separate Words (Enhanced Dictation Engine) - In order to build the sentence modeling feature for the Enhanced dictation engine, it was necessary to "tokenize" vocabulary terms. This means that a multi-word vocabulary term (such as "nVoq Support Center") will no longer return the single words in the term (i.e. "nVoq") unless that word is also included in the topic or as a separate word in the vocabulary.
SayIt Administrator:
Sentence Model Upload No Longer Adds New Vocabulary Automatically - Due to many typos and misspelled words being added into the Vocabulary through this process in the past, the system no longer looks for "unknown words" and automatically adds them to Vocabulary. Instead, unknown words in sentence model documents will be ignored by the dictation server. But you can download a list of unknown words from a sentence model and add them to the vocabulary manually. Note: Inactive sentence model documents in the system prior to 11.0 will be DELETED.
Phonemes Column Removed from Vocabulary Page - The Phonemes column on the Vocabulary page in SayIt Administrator has been removed. New phonemes can no longer be entered for new vocabulary terms for the Standard dictation engine. Previously added phonemes (prior to 11.0) will still be in the system, but will no longer be visible. Users can still record a pronunciation in SayIt for Account vocabulary terms, but there is no longer any way to enter a pronunciation for Organization vocabulary for the Standard dictation engine.
Multi-Word Vocabulary Terms No Longer Return Separate Words (Enhanced Dictation Engine) - In order to build the sentence modeling feature for the Enhanced dictation engine, it was necessary to "tokenize" vocabulary terms. This means that a multi-word vocabulary term (such as "nVoq SayIt GUI") will no longer return the single words in the term (like "nVoq") unless that word is also included in the topic or as a separate word in the vocabulary.
Ability to Copy Shortcut Folders Removed - You can no longer copy shortcut folders.
Inactive Sentence Model Documents Can No Longer Be Stored in SayIt Admin - Sentence model documents can no longer be "deactivated" on the Sentence Model page. Instead, they must simply be removed. Since inactive documents can no longer be stored in the system, the Applied and
Applied Date columns have been removed from the Sentence Model page.
System Notification Page is Gone - With the 11.0, the System Notification page (which was available to SYSTEM-level administrators only) is no longer available. Use the new and improved Account Notification instead.