Release 2.13.0

What's Changed

• [notebooks] Add Riva speech API and QA notebooks by @shashank3959 in #1
• [apps] Add virtual assistant application by @shashank3959 in #2
• [apps] Add Riva Contact App by @shashank3959 in #4
• ASR and TTS Basic NBs by @NikhilSrihari in #9
• Refactoring nvidia-riva org by @NikhilSrihari in #10
• JARS-2023, JARS-2025 and JARS-2036 by @NikhilSrihari in #12
• adding German master notebook by @vinhngx in #14
• Fixes to ASR best practices to recognize specific words by @vinhngx in #16
• adding lexicon mapping notebook by @vinhngx in #13
• Hindi ASR tutorial markdown by @AshishSardana in #15
• JARS-2037 and JARS-2038 by @NikhilSrihari in #18
• EKS deployment doc by @cparisien in #17
• 22.04 QA RC1 - Update 2 by @NikhilSrihari in #20
• Mandarin notebook by @maggiezha in #19
• NVBug 3622099 by @NikhilSrihari in #21
• Fixing dependencies by @NikhilSrihari in #22
• Fixing dependencies (#22) by @NikhilSrihari in #23
• JARS-2033 by @NikhilSrihari in #24
• JARS-2033 by @NikhilSrihari in #26
• Removing some output cells, Updating links by @NikhilSrihari in #29
• Resolving merge conflicts by @NikhilSrihari in #32
• Tutorial on building noise robust ASR will be added later by @NikhilSrihari in #33
• Updating readme file to reflect latest tutorials by @NikhilSrihari in #34
• Addressed VDR comment - added dataset disk space by @AshishSardana in #40
• Revert "Addressed VDR comment - added dataset disk space" by @NikhilSrihari in #41
• Release/2.2.1 by @NikhilSrihari in #61
• Switch to standalone Python client by @PeganovAnton in #62
• Fix indention issue with Deploying a Sample Client by @basantbhattarai in #66
• docs: correct gpu operator to device plugin by @junkin in #69
• update voice_name for 22.08 tts models by @blisc in #70
• Fix to change from float32 to int16 in one TTS notebook by @pcastonguay in #71
• Update TLT TTS notebooks by @blisc in #73
• Update README.md by @blisc in #74
• Sven ngram deployment and conformer ctc by @svenchilton in #75
• Add synthesis SSML samples by @jasro23 in #80
• Updated the wordboosting notebook with a new audio sample and new parameters for negative and combined negative-positive boosting by @svenchilton in #84
• Release/2.7.0 by @blisc in #90
• Remove deleted TTS training notebook by @blisc in #91
• QA tutorial by @styagi130 in #87
• Phoneme distribution analysis tutorial by @styagi130 in #97
• updating Word Boosting document by @sarane22 in #100
• Release/2.8.0 by @rmittal-github in #105
• Deploy on embedded tutorial by @styagi130 in #104
• Removed references to Tao toolkit by @jbalam-nv in #107
• Removed as many references to TAO as possible from the ASR deployment notebooks by @svenchilton in #111
• Updates to tutorial on improving ASR for specific words by @svenchilton in #113
• Update the ASR finetuning tutorials with NeMo - Dropping TAO by @VahidooX in #114
• Add tutorial for ASR Adapter training by @titu1994 in #115
• Noise augmentation tutorial by @jbalam-nv in #120
• adding German notebooks by @vinhngx in #86
• Speech Hints Customization Tutorial by @anand-nv in #123
• Esperanto ASR tutorial by @andrusenkoau in #122
• merge release 2.9.0 to main by @virajkarandikar in #131
• Sven fix finetune by @svenchilton in #133
• Release 2.10.0 by @messiaen in #137
• Oke deployment by @gabrielle9talavera in #116
• adding tutorial for ngram training and finetuning by @sarane22 in #138
• Bump version to 2.11.0 by @rmittal-github in #142
• Release/2.11.0 by @rmittal-github in #151
• Update version to 2.12.0 by @rmittal-github in #152
• Add NMT tutorials into README by @rmittal-github in #155
• Riva deployment guides with gke & aks by @sbagdiya28 in #148
• Updates to ASR deployment notebooks by @svenchilton in #156
• Fix rendering of figure in TTS phoneme distribution tutorial on the Riva docs page by @svenchilton in #157
• Fixed broken links and capitalization of "Docker" in ASR deployment tutorials by @svenchilton in #159
• A tutorial on how to create a noisy dataset offline by @yitagessu in #158
• Updating Readme by @sarane22 in #140
• Release/2.12.0 by @rmittal-github in #163
• Update version to 2.13.0 by @rmittal-github in #164
• Removed outdated TAO-based tutorials for pre-training n-gram ASR… by @svenchilton in #166
• docs: Update tts-deploy.ipynb by @blisc in #165
• Removed references to TAO-based tutorials from the Tutorials table in the README file by @svenchilton in #169
• Add step to enable external access for AWS traefik ingress by @rmittal-github in #170

New Contributors

• @shashank3959 made their first contribution in #1
• @cparisien made their first contribution in #17
• @maggiezha made their first contribution in #19
• @basantbhattarai made their first contribution in #66
• @junkin made their first contribution in #69
• @pcastonguay made their first contribution in #71
• @sarane22 made their first contribution in #100
• @rmittal-github made their first contribution in #105
• @jbalam-nv made their first contribution in #107
• @VahidooX made their first contribution in #114
• @titu1994 made their first contribution in #115
• @andrusenkoau made their first contribution in #122
• @messiaen made their first contribution in #137
• @gabrielle9talavera made their first contribution in #116
• @sbagdiya28 made their first contribution in #148
• @yitagessu made their first contribution in #158

Full Changelog: https://github.com/nvidia-riva/tutorials/commits/r2.13.0