v1.1 - Voice Input

New

• Dicio can now be used as Voice Input in Android settings #227 (thanks @nebkrid!)
• The voice command button on (Bluetooth) headsets will now trigger Dicio #228

Improved

• Rename STT service to STT popup

Fixed

• Fix reference words not being normalized
• [Vosk] Fix pressing STT microphone while still loading

Localization

• New language available: Ukrainian 🇺🇦 #222 (thanks @balaraz!)
• Translate navigation skill in Russian #188 (thanks @Shura0!)
• Improve French and German translations #225 #210 (thanks @AgentSteel and @tiptoptom!)
• Improve README documentation

Development

• Fix tests not compiling #230 (thanks @Martin-Laclaustra!)
• Add GitHub actions to build app, generate screenshots, publish GitHub release and publish to Play Store

v1.0 - Huge refactor

New

• Adopt Material 3 design with black and dynamic themes
• Migrate code to Jetpack Compose and other modern libs
• Faster and more accurate sentence recognition algorithm
• Simpler and more powerful Skill APIs
• Add launcher shortcut to open Speech To Text service

Improved

• [Vosk] Report more status information in STT button:

• Target Android 14 (API 34)
• Group interactions better and add loading box in home screen

Fixed

• [Vosk] Fix Vosk model not downloading on some phones, by ditching Android's DownloadManager and using a network request directly
• Fix various UI crashes thanks to the null safety of Kotlin and to the better Skill APIs design

Development

• Adopt Jetpack Compose for declarative UI
• Use the Model-View-ViewModel architectural pattern to separate business logic from UI code
• Adopt Hilt for Dependency Injection
• Migrate from SharedPreferences to protobuf-backed DataStore
• Move dicio-skill from separate repository to Gradle module :skill in this repo
• Create :sentences-compiler-plugin to generate type-safe Kotlin skill standard recognizer definitions based on skill_definitions.yml and on translated sentences in LANG/SKILL_ID.yml files
• Migrate from Gradle DSL (.gradle) to Kotlin DSL (.gradle.kts)
• Adopt Version Catalog to store the versions of dependencies
• Ditch Jitpack for building other dicio-* libraries, and use me.champeau.includegit instead

v0.10 - Use Kotlin, timer improvements

New

• The project was converted from Java to Kotlin, if you notice issues please report them! #157 (thanks to @Doomsdayrs for the input)
• [Timer] The ringtone now plays in a loop for 30s, or until the user interrupts it

Improved

• Capture errors when generating output
• Target Android 13 Tiramisu (API 33)

Localization

• Add Czech language #149 (thank you @kri164!)
• Add Slovenian language #170 #171 (thank you @pro1mantis!)
• Translate navigation, current time and timer to German #156 #158 #159 #160 (thank you @sl1txdvd!)

0.9 - New logo, navigation skill

New

• New logo! Thanks to everyone involved in #74
• [Navigation] Add basic navigation skill #113 (thank you @primesun!)
• [Current time] Add French translation #123 (thank you @MXC48-zz and @Phyks!)
• Add backup rules that only preserve the preferences file

Improved

• [Telephone] When there are many matching contacts, choose one using voice
• [Vosk] Update model URLs

Fixed

• [Search] Fix "Search for" interpreted as lyrics
• Fix miscalculating matching character count in fuzzy string comparison

Development

• Update Gradle and Android Gradle Plugin
• Enable Java warnings when compiling

0.8 - Speech To Text service

Discussion about a new logo is happening over at #74, you may want to take a look ;-)

New

• Add Speech To Text service: press the microphone button in various applications to trigger Dicio's on-device Speech To Text (powered by Vosk), or just use it for dictation #100 #109 #111 (thank you @nebkrid!)
• [Current time] Add current time skill #91 #94 (thank you @drew-sinha!)
• [Telephone] Add French and Russian translations #88 #71 (thank you @ioctl-user, @MXC48, @BrightDV!)
• [Timer] Add French and Russian translations, but they do not show up because dicio-numbers does not support them yet

Fixed

• [Vosk] Fix crashes when starting the model download on older Android devices due to missing external storage permission #110

Development

• Improve the README section explaining how to create a skill #90 (thank you @drew-sinha!)
• Use the same theme in the whole app and deduplicate some code

0.7 - multiple interpretations, error activity

Matrix/IRC channel announcement

The Dicio project now has a channel on Libera Chat, #dicio!

• The IRC address is ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/dicio, click here for webchat
• You can also use a Matrix account to join the Dicio channel at #dicio:libera.chat. Some convenient clients, available both for phone and desktop, are listed at that link.

Improved

• [Vosk] Now multiple possible interpretations are provided for what the user said, and the app uses the first one it can understand #28 (thank you @MidnightNerd!)
• [Telephone] Translate the skill into Spanish #76 (thank you @AlanSanchezP!)
• Add an error reporting activity, similar to NewPipe's, so that (skill) errors can be reported

Fixed

• Fix input editing view remaining focused after input is sent
• [Timer] Fix Timer not hidden for languages without a number parser/formatter

Development

• Skills now have a SkillContext they can access at any time, and it contains these objects: Android Context, shared preferences, NumberParserFormatter for the current locale, current Locale, GraphicalOutputDevice onto which to display outputs, SpeechOutputDevice with which to speak #60
• The Krita project for Dicio's logo has been uploaded in the meta/ folder. Also check out the issue about creating a new logo: #74
• Add Checkstyle to enforce code style
• Add view binding to the project

0.6 - add telephone and timer skills

New

• [Telephone] Add telephone skill: search and call contacts #29 (thank you @MidnightNerd!)
• [Timer] Add timer skill: set, query and cancel timers (still not polished) #53
• View and grant the permissions a skill requires in skill settings #52
• Add a notice in skill settings when the user is using a language for which dicio-numbers is unavailable #58

Improved

• [Vosk] Update French and Spanish models #50 #56 (thank you @nshmyrev!)
• Improve small UI details in skill settings

Fixed

• Fix skills that continue the conversation: now the user is requested to answer only after the device has finished talking
• Fix crash when initializing Android TTS on some devices

Development

• Allow skills to require Android permissions #52 Stypox/dicio-skill#5
• dicio-numbers now also supports durations (though is still only available in English and Italian, help is wanted for translations)
• Add util_yes_no sentences file to be used across skills
• Introduce desugaring to allow using new Java features on old devices

0.5 - add French, Greek and Spanish languages

New

• Add French language #36 (thank you @BrightDV!)
• Add Greek language #35 (thank you @pklampros!)
• Add Spanish language #43 #17 #14 (thank you @Cristian19194848!)

Improved

• Add "English (India)" (en-in) to language selector for more accurate speech recognition in for Indian English speakers
• [Open] Improve the string distance method used to find the app that best matches what the user said #41
• [Calculator] Improve English operators
• [Weather] Improve Italian sentences

Fixed

• [Vosk] Fix checking whether the model is already downloaded
• [Vosk] Keep showing the download icon when no model is available for the current user locale

Development

• Now dicio-sentences-compiler accepts word variations, such as <e|g?>mail, which matches "mail", "email" and "gmail". This reduces the amount of words that need to be written in .dslf files for some languages. Stypox/dicio-sentences-compiler#7 Stypox/dicio-skill#4
• Fix app icon not being shown on F-Droid

0.4 - add German and Russian languages

New

• Add German language #19 (thank you @MidnightNerd!)
• Add Russian language #26 (thank you @Shura0!)

Improved

• Show skills that can't be enabled, too, in the skill settings
• [Weather] Improve English sentences
• [Search] Ask the user again if there were no results

Fixed

• Fix initial screen title alignment
• [Search] Fix clicking on results
• [Search] Fix DuckDuckGo locale

0.3 - fix Vosk model download strategy

Improved

• Remove unused permissions READ_PHONE_STATE, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE (fixed in dicio-skill)
• [Vosk] Do not start downloading the model right away, but show a download icon

Fixed

• [Vosk] Heavily improve model downloading strategy, fixing many unexpected behaviors #12 #16
• [Vosk] Now the download or loading icons are preserved when resuming the app, instead of wrongfully replacing them with the microphone off icon