Wikispeech/Log

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This is intended to serve as a log over developments and decisions to make it easier to follow what is going on in the project. If you have any questions don't hesitate to get in touch at andre.costa(_AT_)wikimedia.se.

March 2023[edit]

  • Released version 0.1.10 of Wikispeech.

January 2023[edit]

  • Increased supported version of MediaWiki to 1.39, which is a new LTS.

August 2022[edit]

  • Updated the producer wiki (which serves the Wikispeech gadget on sv.wikipedia) to add some quality of life improvements for the UX.

April 2022[edit]

August 2021[edit]

July 2021[edit]

  • The final report of the project is published [Swedish]
  • Improved pronunciation of numbers and dates in Swedish.


Prior to April 2021 the log lived at wmse:Projekt:Wikispeech – Talresursinsamlaren 2019/Project log

April 2021[edit]

Mars 2021[edit]

  • The report on the fourth phase of the project is published [Swedish]
  • Added specialpage for editing lexicon. It can be used to add new lexicon entries.

February 2021[edit]

  • Recording annotations are now stored in wiki pages (using MCR) rather than directly in the database. This adds edit interface, revision editing and rollback features with traceability to authors as in any other standard wiki article.

January 2021[edit]

  • Wikispeech presented at Norwegian Wikitreff
  • Wikispeech demoed for Norwegian Nasjonalbiblioteket

November 2020[edit]

  • Speechoid docker images are automatically built and deployed to the WMF Docker Registry. One result of this is that the process for hosting Speechoid as a service on your own infrastructure is a simple (and documented) task.
  • It is now possible to hide the player again after you have activated it. This also disables the selection player.
  • The report on the third phase of the project is published [Swedish]
  • A benchmarking script is now available to measure the processing and storage requirements for segmenting and synthesising a given page.
  • The Wikispeech page on Meta has undergone a much needed update turning it into a portal for all things Wikispeech.

October 2020[edit]

  • Wikispeech hidden in views where it cannot be used (e.g. History or Edit view).
  • Released version 0.1.7 of Wikispeech. Primarily internal changes in how Wikispeech works. You can test it on https://wikispeech.wmflabs.org.

September 2020[edit]

  • Released version 0.1.6 of Wikispeech. Primarily internal changes in how Speechoid and Wikispeech interact. You can test it on https://wikispeech.wmflabs.org.
  • Listening to a page is no longer interrupted if another user edits the page.
  • Released version 0.1.5 of Wikispeech. Highlights include better control of when Wikispeech is activated and an updated UI. You can test it on https://wikispeech.wmflabs.org.
  • Speechoid is now versioned to make it easier to map compatibility with the extension.

August 2020[edit]

  • A new version of https://wikispeech.wmflabs.org is now up including up-to-date changes in Wikispeech and Speechoid.
  • Speechoid has now been integrated in the Continuous Integration (CI) workflow. Final images are not being published but Speechoid, as deployed on https://wikispeech-tts-dev.wmflabs.org/ is now being built in the same way as CI will do in the future.

July 2020[edit]

June 2020[edit]

May 2020[edit]

  • Re-implementing Speechoid packaging to be done using Blubber

April 2020[edit]

  • PTS published a video about the project
  • Initiating work on the march 2020 decision to store generated speech in Wikispeech extension
  • Initiating work on converting Pronlex databases from SQLite to MySQL
  • Received feedback that the proposed re-architecture of Pronlex will need to be modified to avoid the service-dependancy-loop

March 2020[edit]

February 2020[edit]

  • On-boarded new developer wmse:User:Karl Wettin (WMSE)
  • Analysed how to implement the Speech Data Collector (in Swedish). In particular if it should be a MediaWiki extension running on Wikipedia or a stand-alone tool. The conclusion was to implement it as a MediaWiki extension but to not require it to run on Wikipedia. That way it can either be used as a stand-alone tool (a separate wiki) or implemented directly on the wiki.

January 2020[edit]

  • Site visit took place at WMDE offices, in part focusing on requirements needed to bring Wikispeech to production. See notes here (in Swedish).


Events prior to 2020 ar not included in the log