This release is a minor yet important release. It increases significantly the number of features available while fixing quite a lot of small bugs and issues. A summary of the achievements of this release is given below, while a complete detailed list of all the changes can be found at the bottom of this release note.

Notable achievements

• 22 new contributors, thank you so much, everyone!
• 31 new recipes (ASR, SLU, AST, AER, Interpretability, SSL).
• FULL automatic recipe testing.
• Increased coverage for the continuous integration over the code, URLs, YAML, recipes, and HuggingFace models.
• New Conformer Large model for ASR.
• Integration of Whisper for fine-tuning or inference.
• Full pre-training of wav2vec2 entirely re-implemented AND documented.
• Low resource Speech Translation with IWSLT.
• Many other novelties... see below.

What's Changed

• fix 1522 by @anautsch in #1526
• bug-fix: fixed OPEN_RIR data preparation process conflict. by @xin-w8023 in #1536
• add noise and reverberance version for BinauralWSJ0Mix by @huangzj421 in #1502
• fix distributed namespace by @anautsch in #1566
• feat: use member field instead of hard-code by @xin-w8023 in #1567
• Update logo to new version by @pplantinga in #1575
• IWSLT 2022 speech translation recipe by @mzboito in #1475
• Fix Issue #1277 timit recipe missing uppercase option by @Adel-Moumen in #1564
• Update README.md by @qanastek in #1577
• Output hiddens states from all the transformer layers of huggingface_wav2vec by @BenoitWang in #1570
• Fix bugs of update_learning_rate by @wangxin22 in #1578
• Fix to use output of unsqueeze() in Tacotron2 parse_decoder_outputs() by @jqug in #1525
• wav2vec2 pretraining implemented with speechbrain by @RuABraun in #1312
• In filter_ctc_output(), remove redundant filtering by @olvb in #1584
• Fixed output_all_hiddens for hubert in huggingface_wav2vec by @gorinars in #1587
• Fix return value of batch_evaluation for separation recipes by @z-wony in #1555
• fix endless doctest despite no example by @anautsch in #1591
• Fix documented min python version to 3.7 by @asumagic in #1595
• Conformer separation by @ycemsubakan in #1519
• Add CTC recipe to AISHELL-1 by @BenoitWang in #1576
• Add templates for issues by @Adel-Moumen in #1588
• Added workaround for CyclicLR saving by @Gastron in #1683
• scikit-learn import and comment fix by @underdogliu in #1485
• Adding recipe for HiFiGAN training using LibriTTS dataset by @pradnya-git-dev in #1621
• fix LibriSpeech CTC pretrainer by @BenoitWang in #1594
• wav2vec German model added by @sangeet2020 in #1557
• issue 1615 typo fix by @sharmadhiraj86 in #1700
• typo in TransformerASR.py by @Adel-Moumen in #1704
• Causality in Conv2d by @fpaissan in #1608
• Switchboard Recipe by @dwgnr in #1460
• read_audio fixes and docs cleanup by @asumagic in #1592
• Fix path flake8 in pre-commit by @Adel-Moumen in #1721
• Added german_cleaners by @padmalcom in #1642
• fixing issue 1707 by @TParcollet in #1728
• explicit fetch args & download-only option by @anautsch in #1735
• fix sorting bug by @anautsch in #1730
• remove discussions references by @Adel-Moumen in #1737
• Fix torchaudio mel_normalized for Tacotron2&HifiGAN by @BenoitWang in #1740
• Whisper finetuning by @Adel-Moumen in #1717
• loss must be avg when BS>1 when calling evaluate_batch() by @sangeet2020 in #1744
• [FIX] Flush gradients and save memory for validation. by @MartinKocour in #1739
• add coloring in tqdm progress bar by @sangeet2020 in #1573
• Fix librispeech transformer recipe by @TParcollet in #1775
• 🖍️ improving type-hints in speechbrain/pretrained/interfaces.py by @jonasvdd in #1725
• Enabling the retrieval of whisper's hidden states by @Hguimaraes in #1751
• Added fix to use DDP with hifi_gan training on ljspeech by @padmalcom in #1781
• Fix wav2vec2 masking by @TParcollet in #1799
• fix #1794 by @Adel-Moumen in #1805
• refactor: recipe testing CSVs by @anautsch in #1600
• fix 1788 by @BenoitWang in #1842
• fix docstring for pooling by @BenoitWang in #1843
• Whisper finetunng common voice by @poonehmousavi in #1809
• fixing the convtasnet causal=True bug by @ycemsubakan in #1851
• Fix Whisper doc + improve max_decode_ratio by @Adel-Moumen in #1858
• Rewrite multi-GPU documentation by @asumagic in #1861
• SLU Media recipe by @GaelleLaperriere in #1172
• edits for refactoring check tool by @anautsch in #1838
• minor fixes for recipe testing by @anautsch in #1872
• Fix Whisper avoid_if_longer_than never used by @Adel-Moumen in #1882
• Starting a recipe for ESC50 by @ycemsubakan in #1605
• Fix for #1886 by @anautsch in #1890
• fix batch_to_right by @anthony-wss in #1884
• Fixes for pre-release testing by @anautsch in #1895
• Fix Conformer Instabilities and add Large Model by @TParcollet in #1892
• Downsampling by @salah-zaiem in #1888
• fix core.py bf16 by @Adel-Moumen in #1898
• S2SGreedySearcher : Do not continue decoding when EOS token was generated for all samples from a batch by @Jeronymous in #1899
• quick fixes before minor by @anautsch in #1896

New Contributors

• @xin-w8023 made their first contribution in #1536
• @mzboito made their first contribution in #1475
• @qanastek made their first contribution in #1577
• @wangxin22 made their first contribution in #1578
• @jqug made their first contribution in #1525
• @olvb made their first contribution in #1584
• @gorinars made their first contribution in #1587
• @z-wony made their first contribution in #1555
• @asumagic made their first contribution in #1595
• @pradnya-git-dev made their first contribution in #1621
• @sangeet2020 made their first contribution in #1557
• @sharmadhiraj86 made their first contribution in #1700
• @fpaissan made their first contribution in #1608
• @dwgnr made their first contribution in #1460
• @padmalcom made their first contribution in #1642
• @MartinKocour made their first contribution in #1739
• @jonasvdd made their first contribution in #1725
• @poonehmousavi made their first contribution in #1809
• @GaelleLaperriere made their first contribution in #1172
• @anthony-wss made their first contribution in #1884
• @salah-zaiem made their first contribution in #1888
• @Jeronymous made their first contribution in #1899

Full Changelog: v0.5.13...v0.5.14