The first update has landed
The first update of the 18.08 release has landed bringing bugfixes, and a consistent array of command line tools.
Mimic 2 speech improvement #1795
The American Voice Beta voice model for mimic 2 has been improved quite a bit, to take advantage of this some of the sentence chunking code has been reworked. This will result in less unnatural pauses in the speech.
Unify the commandline experience #1784, #1788
Many of the command line tools used in the Mark-1 and Picroft was merged into the mycroft-core repo and can be found under .../mycroft-core/bin/
Local precise model #1782
A user specified precise wakeword model can now be specified in the configuration. This allows easier customization.
Workaround for arduino issue #1751
Some users experienced issues with the face plate not updating due to invalid start characters received from the Arduino, a workaround that will work in certain cases was added. Shoutout to @domcross for providing this!