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+Sphinx-4 Speech Recognition System
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Version:       1.0Beta6
+Release Date:  March 2011
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+New Features and Improvements:
+
+ * SRGS/GrXML support, more to come soon with support for JSAPI2
+ * Model layout is unified with Pocketsphinx/Sphinxtrain
+ * Netbeans project files are included
+ * Language models can be loaded from URI
+ * Batch testing application allows testing inside Sphinxtrain
+
+Bug Fixes:
+
+ * Flat linguist accuracy issue fixed
+ * Intelligent sorting in paritioner fixes stack overflow when tokens
+ have identical scores
+ * Various bug fixes
+    
+Thanks:
+
+  Timo Bauman, Nasir Hussain, Michele Alessandrini, Evandro Goueva,
+  Stephen Marquard, Larry A. Taylor, Yuri Orlov, Dirk Schnelle-Walka,
+  James Chivers, Firas Al Khalil
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Version:       1.0Beta5
+Release Date:  August 2010
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+New Features and Improvements:
+
+    * Alignment demo and grammar to align long speech recordings to 
+      transcription and get word times
+    * Lattice grammar for multipass decoding
+    * Explicit-backoff in LexTree linguist
+    * Significant LVCSR speedup with proper LexTree compression
+    * Simple filter to drop zero energy frames
+    * Graphviz for grammar dump vizualization instead of AISee
+    * Voxforge decoding accuracy test
+    * Lattice scoring speedup
+    * JSAPI-free JSGF parser
+
+Bug Fixes:
+
+    * Insertion probabilities are counted in lattice scores
+    * Don't waste resources and memory on dummy acoustic model
+      transformations
+    * Small DMP files are loaded properly
+    * JSGF parser fixes
+    * Documentation improvements
+    * Debian package stuff
+    
+Thanks:
+
+    Antoine Raux, Marek Lesiak, Yaniv Kunda, Brian Romanowski, Tony
+    Robinson, Bhiksha Raj, Timo Baumann, Michele Alessandrini, Francisco
+    Aguilera, Peter Wolf, David Huggins-Daines, Dirk Schnelle-Walka.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Version:       1.0Beta4
+Release Date:  February 2010
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+New Features and Improvements:
+
+    * Large arbitrary-order language models
+    * Simplified and reworked model loading code
+    * Raw configuration and and demos
+    * HTK model loader
+    * A lot of code optimizations
+    * JSAPI-independent JSGF parser
+    * Noise filtering components
+    * Lattice rescoring
+    * Server-based language model
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+    * Lots of bug fixes: PLP extraction, race-conditions
+    in scoring, etc.
+    
+Thanks:
+
+    Peter Wolf, Yaniv Kunda, Antoine Raux, Dirk Schnelle-Walka,
+    Yannick Estève, Anthony Rousseau and LIUM team, Christophe Cerisara.
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Version:       1.0Beta3
+Release Date:  August 2009
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+New Features and Improvements:
+
+    * BatchAGC frontend component
+    * Completed transition to defaults in annotations
+    * ConcatFeatureExtrator to cooperate with cepwin models
+    * End of stream signals are passed to the decoder to fix cancellation
+    * Timer API improvement
+    * Threading policy is changed to TAS
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+    * Fixes reading UTF-8 from language model dump.
+    * Huge memory optimization of the lattice compression
+    * More stable fronend work with DataStart and DataEnd and optional
+      SpeechStart/SpeechEnd
+    
+Thanks:
+
+    Yaniv Kunda, Michele Alessandrini, Holger Brandl, Timo Baumann,
+    Evandro Gouvea
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Version:       1.0Beta2
+Release Date:  February 2009
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+New Features and Improvments:
+
+    * new much cleaner and more robust configuration system
+    * migrated to java5
+    * xml-free instantiation of new systems
+    * improved feature extraction (better voice activity detection, many bugfixes)
+	* Cleaned up some of the core APIs
+    * include-tag for configuration files 
+    * better JavaSound support
+	* fully qualified grammar names in JSGF (Roger Toenz)
+	* support for dictionary addenda in the FastDictionary (Gregg Liming)
+	* added batch tools for measuring performance on NIST corpus with CTL files
+	* many perforamnce and stability improvments
+
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Version:       1.0Beta
+Release Date:  September 2004
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+New Features:
+
+    * Confidence scoring
+    * Posterior probability computation
+    * Sausage creation from a lattice
+    * Dynamic grammars
+    * Narrow bandwidth acoustic model
+    * Out-of-grammar utterance rejection
+    * More demonstration programs
+    * WSJ5K Language model
+
+Improvements:
+
+    * Better control over microphone selection
+    * JSGF limitations removed
+    * Improved performance for large, perplex JSGF grammars
+    * Added Filler support for JSGF Grammars
+    * Ability to configure microphone input
+    * Added ECMAScript Action Tags support and demos.
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+    * Lots of bug fixes
+
+Documentation:
+    
+    * Added the Sphinx-4 FAQ
+    * Added scripts and instructions for building a WSJ5k language model
+    from LDC data.
+
+Thanks:
+
+    * Peter Gorniak, Willie Walker, Philip Kwok, Paul Lamere
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Version:       0.1alpha
+Release Date:  June 2004
+
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Initial release