New ChatterOS Update released January 15th. We're very excited for this update because we've improved performance of Chatterbox by over 30%! Among fixes in this update are better speech handling, improved understanding and handling of date and time as well as block improvements. For full change log, please see below.
To download update, you can tell Chatterbox to "Check for updates."
To find out if your Chatterbox auto-updated, press button and ask "What version are you?"
Note: Depending on internet connection, please allow up to 30 minutes for update to finish. After update, you need to use the power switch to turn off and turn on Chatterbox for the latest changes.
Bugs Fixes
Reduced Latency by 30% -- Faster intent responses!
Updated language parsing library #138
Date/Time fixes #138 for handling formatting of time 5:35 becomes 5 : 35 which sometime causes extractions to fail.
String fixes #139 + #140
allow strings to start / end with '
allow strings to contain '''
Ensure default skills built if missing #142
Fallback to default voice in admin menu, would not speak if a different voice was used #147
Fix Linda voice in speak with voice block #148
Improve handling of am and pm in datetime blocks #149
Increase training timeout for Example block #150
Restore short circuit sound on empty STT #152
Skill Updates
Portal skill now uses new pairing #137
Portal skill dialog updated #137
Portal skill intent updated, should trigger more easily now #137
Volume skill no longer speaks, instead plays acknowledge sound and prints to chat. #144
New intent for ready skill, "Are you fully loaded?" #145
Improve volume intent "set volume" worked, "set the volume" did not #151
Improve volume intents "turn up/down the volume" #157
Block Updates
Remove self from variables dropdown #138
Remove anti pattern of magically created variables #138
Extract datetime is now 2 blocks with left output, extract date from and remove date from
Extract duration is now 2 blocks with left output, extract duration from and remove duration from
Block Match dict to text removed from toolbox #138
System Updates
Added rebuild all skills (default and user) option #143
New pairing mechanism #146
Audio configuration improvements #153
Support scheduling events with duration #156
Fix regex issues - one skill, two intents with shared variable name. #155