Change log for Julius 3.5.3:

3.5.3 (2006.12.29)

  o  Improved Performance:
     - acoustic computation optimized: now becomes 20%-40% faster!
     - optimize memory access: re-use work area of deleted hypothesis
       in the 2nd pass.
     - some memory allocation improvement on dictionary and word trellis.

  o  New Grammar Tools:
     - "dfa_minimize", "dfa_determinize" will minimize/determinize DFA.
        mkdfa.pl now calls dfa_mimize in it.
     - "slf2dfa": a toolkit to convert HTK slf to Julian dfa (separate kit)

  o  Embedding HTK Acoustic Parameters:
     - add option to load HTK Config file to set correct acoustic parameter
       configuration at recognition time. 
     - the acoustic parameter configuration can be embedded into
       header of a binary HMM file.

  o  Improved Word Graph:
     - add an option to completely separate graph words: words with
       different phone contexts can be output separatedly by
       "-graphrange -1".

  o  Support for online energy normalization:
     - Preliminary support for live recognition using acoustic model with
       energy normalization. (approximate with maximum energy of last input)

  o  Code refinements:
     - re-organize libsent/src/wav2mfcc.
     - modularize acoustic parameter (Value) handling.
     - output compile-time configuration of libsent with "--setting" option.
     - Doxygen 1.5.0 support.
     - "[email protected]" becomes the official contact address.
     - fixed typo on copyright notice.

  o  Fixed bugs:
     - sometimes unable to read a binary LM on "--enable-words-int".
     - memory leaks around option handling, global variables and local buffers.
     - segmentation fault on very long input.
     - doublely counted initial state of DFA.
     - mkdfa.pl: unable to find mkfa on some OS.
     - adintool: makes empty output file on termination.
     - adintool: miss last inputs when killed.
     - other small changes.

--- (Edited on 1/ 3/2007 8:39 pm [GMT-0500] by kmaclean) ---