New Features

• Made the name of the built-in speech transcription grammar configurable, which defaults to 'transcribe'.
• Allow 'builtin:speech/$name' and 'builtin:grammar/$name' to be used interchangeably.
• Accept SRGS speech grammars without processing of any rules defined in the grammar.

Fixed Problems

• When the configuration parameter 'start-of-input' is set to 'service-originated', then no-input timer might have not been stopped upon start of speech. This issue was introduced in 1.7.0 release.
• When the configuration parameter 'start-of-input' is set to 'internal', then under certain circumstances, this could have caused license depletion. This issue was introduced in 1.7.0 release.
• Escaped XML control characters which may appear in transcription results. For instance, "AT&T" will be replaced with "AT&T".

Configuration Parameters

• Added a new attribute 'skip-unsupported-grammars', which defaults to 'true'.
• Added a new attribute 'transcription-grammar', which defaults to 'transcribe'.

Miscellaneous

• Changed grammar referencing routine to be, by default, tolerant to malformed and not supported grammars.