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

0.2 - fix crash at startup

Fixed

• Fix Dicio only starting on devices with English or Italian languages available #7
• [Calculator] Fix "what's" not being interpreted the same way as "what is" #9

0.1 - initial release

5 skills

• search: looks up information on DuckDuckGo (and in the future more engines) - Search for Dicio
• weather: collects weather information from OpenWeatherMap - What's the weather like?
• lyrics: shows Genius lyrics for songs - What's the song that goes we will we will rock you?
• open: opens an app on your device - Open NewPipe
• calculator: evaluates basic calculations - What is four thousand and two times three minus a million divided by three hundred?

Settings

• 2 input methods: speech to text with Vosk, text box
• 4 output methods: Android speech synthesis, toast, snackbar, nothing
• 2 languages: English and Italian
• 2 themes: light and dark

Development

• Sentence recognition is done with dicio-sentences-compiler and dicio-skill
• Skills can extract or say numbers using dicio-numbers
• Translatable on Fastlane