Release Notes

Current deep learning model: v2.22.0(11 November 2024)

November 11, 2024

Cochl Library v1.0.0 has been released.


  • Easier Speaker Recognition API integration
  • Removed Stream Client

June 10, 2024

Python cochl library has been released for easier API integration. The new model v2.18.8 has been deployed.

December 28, 2023

Cochl.Sense Cloud API v1.4.0 released


  • Implemented a “Default Hop size” feature enabling users to set the inference interval at either 0.5 seconds or 1 second.
  • Introduced a new “Sensitivity Control” feature that allows users to adjust the recognition sensitivity for each tag.
  • Updated sample codes now include a “Result Summary” feature for a simplified display.

June 21, 2023

Model version updated to v2.15.8


  • Model performances improved.
  • Number of detectable sound tags increased to 103 sounds.
  • Others tag probability changed to constant ‘0.0’.

See Sound tags list for more information

September 28, 2022

Model version updated to v2.7.9


The ‘siren’ tag has been modified and split into 2 tags :

  • Civil_defense_siren
  • Emergency_vehicle_siren

Other tags have been added.
See Sound tags list for more information.

July 07, 2022

Two new concepts have been implemented :

  • multi-tag : multiple sounds can be recognized at the same time.
  • no service : all the sounds can be inferenced regardless of their category : no need to specify a service anymore.

Breaking changes

Due to multi-tag concept, the ‘Read status’ request response format has been modified.

March 15, 2022

Two new parameters are available from client side when creating a session :

  • service : set service to inference different events with same project / api key
  • metadata : those metadata will later be available on analytics dashboard.

Breaking changes

Events for each service have been refactored.

Aug. 20, 2021

Breaking changes

For better consistency, some event names have been renamed.

  • ‘Glassbreak’ becomes ‘Glass_break’
  • ‘Clap becomes’ ‘Double_clap’
  • ‘Whistling’ becomes ‘Whistle’
  • ‘Burping’ becomes ‘Burp’
  • ‘Snoring’ becomes ‘Snore’

Some event recognition have been removed.

  • Whisper
  • Keyboard_or_mouse

Apr. 21, 2021

  • Smart filtering is now always activated. Changing smart-filtering option on client will not have any effect.

Nov. 27, 2020

Pricing

Decreasing API price from $0.048 /min to $0.012 /min

Company

  • Our new domain has change from cochlear.ai to cochl.ai
  • A brand new site accessible at https://www.cochl.ai

Model

Addition of Human Status service:

  • Baby_cry
  • Dining_clink
  • Dog_bark
  • Electric_shaver_or_toothbrush
  • Keyboard_or_mouse
  • Knock
  • Toilet_flush
  • Water_tap_or_liquid_fill
  • Others

Sept. 07, 2020

Client

Add smart filtering capability to all clients v1.1.0.

Breaking changes

Java and Dart dependency name have change.

For java, now use

dependencies {
    implementation 'ai.cochlear.sense:cochl-sense:1.1.0'
}

For dart, now use

dependencies:
  cochl_sense: ^1.1.0

Jul. 21, 2020

Model

Addition of Human status service:

  • Burping
  • Cough
  • Fart
  • Hiccup
  • Laughter
  • Sigh
  • Sneeze
  • Snoring
  • Yawn
  • Others

May 15, 2020

Official v1 release

Model

  • Better accuracy
  • Faster result
  • Specialized model to 2 different services :
    • Emergency Detection: Fire/smoke alarm, glassbreak, scream, and siren
    • Human Interaction: Clap, finger snap, knock, whisper, and whistling

Client

  • Dart client
  • Clients use SSL to send encrypted audio data

Breaking changes

  • Change client API
  • Split supported sounds between different services
  • Stop support of beta API key
  • All services and API keys from beta version are not supported anymore
  • All beta clients needs to be updated to latest version

Dashboard

  • Creation of dashboard: https://dashboard.cochl.ai
  • Data usage visualization
  • Usage of multiple API Key using different projects for better control

Jan. 22, 2020

Release of beta v2.1 : number of supported sounds increased to 34 classes.

Model

Added (14 classes)

  • Bicycle_bell
  • Birds
  • Burping
  • Cat_meow
  • Clap
  • Crowd_applause
  • Crowd_scream
  • Explosion
  • Finger_snap
  • Keyboard_mouse
  • Mosquito
  • Sigh
  • Whisper
  • Wind_noise

Changed (3 classes)

  • Applause → Crowd_applause
  • Gunshot_explosion → Gunshot
  • Scream_shout → Scream

Deleted (1 class) :

  • Baby_laughter

Jul. 03, 2019

Client

  • Python: Fix time frame bug in streaming function.

Jun. 05, 2019

Cochl.Sense beta v2 is now available.

Model

Acoustic event API

  • Removed the subtask option.
  • Available sound events are increased to 22 (v-1.0: 7 events)
  • Provides API with a new serving system which is more scalable.

Music API, Speech API

  • Paused temporarily and will be back in Q3 2019 with improved performance.

Client

  • Protobuf messages changed
  • gRPC service changed

Nov. 09, 2018

Cochl.Sense beta v1 is now available in Beta release, which is the first general purpose audio cognition API. The API is designed to empower developers and corporates with Machine Listening AI. During Beta period, it is free to use within the daily quota of 700 calls (for file inputs) and 10 minutes (for streaming).

Model

  • Speech and music activity detection
  • Age and gender detection
  • Additional sound event class: glassbreak
  • Improved performance

Client

  • Improved latency
  • Streaming input support
  • Example client codes of other languages (Java, Node.js)
  • Additional functionalities