Release Notes for Dragon Medical SpeechKit 2020.4 (iOS edition)

New in version 2020.4

Infrastructure support

• Xcode 12.1 is now supported.
• iOS and iPadOS 14.2 are now supported.

Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant

• The text-to-speech service and confirmation/choice/free text prompt requests are now executed together, no waiting is necessary. [FLOR-22428]

• A new API is available, for uploading dynamic concepts, that uses the method completionHandler. When a dynamic concept is uploaded, the concept name and the status of the upload request are reported. Note that the existing API method conceptResult will still work. [FLOR-22436]

• Even when standby mode is disabled, a user can start assistant mode by using the virtual assistant trigger word from dictation mode. [FLOR-23872]

• The promptForConcept API and the nluResult delegate methods have been removed. [FLOR-23783]

• The sample application has been improved with text-to-speech prompts and the prompts workflow. [FLOR-21948]

Solved issues in version 2020.4

• The Dragon Medical SpeechKit SDK no longer causes applications to repeatedly shut down unexpectedly. [DMOCE-713, DNB-32628]
• A 16-byte memory leak occurs in the SDK each time a session is closed. [DNB-5441]

Important information

• Mobile operating system support: The current major iOS version is supported along with the previous two major versions. [HCPLAT-1485, DNB-31832]
• The Dragon Medical SpeechKit Text-To-Speech Service has been decommissioned. Text-to-speech is provided by the Dragon Medical Virtual Assistant. [HCPLAT-1528, DNB-31754]
• Dragon Medical SpeechKit 2020.4 (iOS edition) is compatible with server versions 3.4, 3.5 and 2020.1.
• Dragon Medical Server 2020.1 is compatible with client versions 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 2020.2, 2020.3 and 2020.4.
• In standby mode, notifications such as text messages and other push notifications will continue to be displayed by a banner at the top of the screen. However, no sound will be played alongside the push notification. This is the standard interaction defined by Apple for iOS applications utilizing the microphone in native applications. Phone calls will not be muted, only push notifications and text messages.
• Filtering auto-texts (defining filters to deactivate auto-texts selectively) is deprecated and will no longer work.
• The SystemConfiguration framework must be linked explicitly to your application, even if Link Frameworks Automatically is set to YES. If Link Frameworks Automatically is set to NO, the WebKit framework must also be linked to your application.
• From version 3.1 Service Release 12, the iOS edition is delivered as an embedded framework. When upgrading from an earlier version, changes are required in your integration. For more information, see "Setting up Dragon Medical SpeechKit" in the Dragon Medical SpeechKit iOS edition help. [DNB-8963, DNB-10129]
• Bitcode is not supported for production use. If you need a bitcode version of the SDK, for example for Veracode scanning, please contact your Nuance support representative. [DNB-21339]
• Split View is not supported. [DNB-28030]

Known issues

• Additional memory leaks have been identified in version 2020.4. [DNB-32633]
• The wake up and go to sleep commands and the virtual assistant trigger words are not reliably recognized when the user is using a Bluetooth microphone. [FLOR-11863]

Infrastructure

Infrastructure no longer supported

• Dragon Medical SpeechKit and Dragon Medical Embedded 2020.3 applications do not work with version 3.3 servers.
• Version 3.1 and 3.2 client applications do not work with version 2020.1 servers.
• iOS 10 and 11 are no longer supported.
• Xcode 9 is no longer supported.

Infrastructure changes planned for the next release

• Dragon Medical SpeechKit and Dragon Medical embedded 2020.3 and higher applications will not work with version 3.4 servers.
• Version 3.4 client applications will not work with version 2020.3 and higher servers.
• Legacy Text-to-Speech (TTS) services will be disabled. TTS will be exclusively available in SpeechKit (iOS Edition) versions 3.5 R1 and upwards.

System requirements*

*End-of-life: third-party environments

Support for third-party environments is only valid as long as they are supported by the corresponding vendor and might be subject to other restrictions. Please contact Nuance Technical Support for details. For more information, see the documentation delivered with the third-party product and supporting Nuance documentation.

When standard support by the vendor has stopped, Nuance will continue support if an issue is specific to the Nuance solution, within the limitations of the vendor's standard end-of-life and Nuance's policy. This means that issues that are a combination of the vendor's component and the Nuance solution cannot be supported.

Dragon Medical SpeechKit product life cycle

Nuance provides support throughout the life cycle of one version and point release. Please note that Nuance will not perform problem analysis after the scheduled start of restricted maintenance. Dragon Medical Server versions released over three months after the dates stated here will not work with these client editions.

*Preliminary date; might change in future release notes.