ARC 2021.01.21.00 (Pro)

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Change Release Notes

  • Prevent rare cross-threading issue that may occur with camera canvas

  • Bing speech recognition uses VAD

  • UCGraph fix for "object being used elsewhere" error

  • Updated python to the latest compiler and libraries

  • Blockly port commands accept ezb index

  • Fix renaming namespace when creating plugin by removing unsupported characters


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#1  

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Bing speech recognition uses VAD
Is this:

Quote:

(Voice Activated Dialing) Dialing a phone by speaking the names or numbers. VAD is a common capability on smartphones.

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#2   — Edited

No - vad is voice activity detection. Which is this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_activity_detection

the question mark for the robot skill does explain more. You can hover over the blue question mark next to the option and read about it’s use :)