2025.1.2.1

🔄 Neural Recognition with ‘Voice Activated’ and ‘Hotword’ Input Modes

Replaced the old volume-based voice activity detection (VAD) with a new "Neural" model. It’s much better at telling the difference between your voice and other sounds (like a cough or a door slam), leading to fewer false activations. This is the new default setting.
- An option to select VAD Modes have been added to Sound -> Input -> VAD Mode.
Added Sound -> Input -> Mute Mic When DRE speaks for ‘Voice Activated’ and ‘Hotword’ input modes
- Enable this to stop DRE from listening to itself, when using the ‘Voice Activated’ or ‘Hotword Activated’ Input Modes.
- Disable this only, if using headphones for the output.
- If you send DRE speech (or any other speech like Discord voice chat) through your speakers, with this option disabled, DRE will start picking up other voices as speech for processing.
- This option is enabled by default, preventing DRE from listening to itself speak.
Lowered and reset all values of the Sound -> Recognition -> Classic Recognizer Offset to 20%.
- Adjusted the Hybrid Speech Recognition balance to make it better at understanding simple, specific commands.
- This gives more authority to the classic recognizer in Hybrid mode compared to the default 30% before.
- Play around with this value:
  - If you experience simple commands that you know exist as specific grammar won’t be recognized, then lower this Offset.
  - On the other hand, when getting false positives, where DRE recognizes parts of your speech but not your whole input, or it changes your input completely, then increase this Offset.
- The name of the setting has been precised to Classic Recognizer Offset in Hybrid as this offset only applies with Hybrid speech recognition.
Allowed more of the leading voice input to ensure talk is captured in full for the recognizers.
Disabled VAD fully for Push-To-Talk Input Mode

🔄 Automatic hotfix updates

Minimized the waiting time after releasing new version for hotfixes.
You can always manually check to start a new update using Settings -> Updates -> Check now .

✅ Changing app language would not save the setting before restarting

✅ Duplicated voice changed alerts

✅ Improved reliability with iRacing authentication

Deferred interactive authentication when you’re on track racing to avoid disruptions during races. No more browser pop-ups mid-race in case of faulty iRacing authentication.
Prevented spammy re-authentication, if authentication to iRacing is lost

✅ Session Laps Left

Laps Left based on time remaining could spiral out of control.
Hard-limiting to 4500 laps left, equaling a bit more than 20 sec / lap for 24 hours. This will prevent excessive data generation in case of data failures.
Lower-capping lap times used for calculating laps left, to prevent spiraling lap left in early stages.