To view Product Release Notes for 2021 and beyond, please visit this page.
Pre-labeling
Release Date: 9/16/20
Improvement:
This new beta feature is truly a game changer, as it brings the time-and-cost-saving power of machine learning to the Appen platform in a flexible, extensible, and user-friendly way.
- The Pre-labeling feature supports a varied and growing set of customer use cases.
- At this time, the feature is available for managed services customers only.
Learn more about the Pre-labeling feature here.
Nested Spans in Text Annotation
Release Date: 9/17/20
Improvement: This is a huge enhancement to our text annotation tool's capabilities! With this new feature, the tool can overlay text spans in order to capture the complex multi-level structure of human language.
Here are the details of the changes we’ve made in order to make this new feature function:
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Option to enable span nesting in Text Annotation Tool (See details)
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Change in Text Annotation test question creation and grading (See details)
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Change in Text Annotation test question accuracy calculation (See details)
Audio Transcription in Open Beta
Release Date: 9/18/20
Improvement: We are thrilled to announce Appen's new Audio Transcription tool! This new tool enables users to deliver ASR-grade audio transcriptions at scale. The tool nicely complements the suite of audio tooling developed on the Appen platform:
- Audio Annotation tool
- Pre-labeling with Audio Segmentation
- Pre-labeling with ASR (coming soon)
- Video Segmentation/transcription (coming soon)
Learn more about the Audio Transcription tool here.