New Features

• Added support for predefined metadata in SRGS XML grammars that allows to reference a built-in grammar and/or specify various input parameters. See Sections 4.2, 5.1, 5.2 in the Usage Guide.
• In accordance with SRGS recommendation, use case-insensitive string matching, while comparing a transcription result with phrases in a supplied speech context.
• Use the exact letter case specified in a supplied speech context, while composing the instance element in NLSML results.
• Added a new attribute 'scope' to individual speech contexts, which can be defined in configuration globally.

Fixed Problems

• Fixed a possible license depletion issue. Under unknown circumstances experienced with the new regional-based service endpoint, the 'turn.end' event is NOT received from the service. Such an occurrence eventually caused the channel to infinitely wait for the event. The new implementation sets a timer for the 'turn.end' event in order to properly release all the resources, if the event is not received in a timely manner.

Configuration Parameters

• Added a new attribute 'scope' to individual speech contexts.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed HTTP response time output in logs not to be truncated to msec but to be represented in msec.
• Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.