What's new and changed in Watson Speech services

Important: IBM Cloud Pak® for Data Version 4.8 will reach end of support (EOS) on 31 July, 2025. For more information, see the Discontinuance of service announcement for IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.X.

Upgrade to IBM Software Hub Version 5.1 before IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8 reaches end of support. For more information, see Upgrading from IBM Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8 to IBM Software Hub Version 5.1.

Watson Speech services updates can include new features, bug fixes, and security updates. Updates are listed in reverse chronological order so that the latest release is at the beginning of the topic.

You can see a list of the new features for the platform and all of the services at What's new in IBM Cloud Pak for Data.

Installing or upgrading Watson Speech services

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Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.9

The Watson Speech services were released in April 2025 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.9.

Operand version: 4.8.9

This release includes the following changes:

Security issues fixed in this release: CVE-2024-4317, CVE-2024-4741, CVE-2024-6602, CVE-2024-8775, CVE-2024-9902, CVE-2024-11079, CVE-2024-12798, CVE-2024-12801, CVE-2024-35325, CVE-2024-38809, CVE-2024-38816, CVE-2024-38819, CVE-2024-38820, CVE-2024-38827, CVE-2024-35195, CVE-2024-37891, CVE-2024-41671, CVE-2024-41810, CVE-2024-45337, CVE-2024-45338, CVE-2024-50379, CVE-2024-56201, CVE-2024-56326, CVE-2024-56337; CVE-2021-3572, CVE-2021-23336; CVE-2019-12900

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.8

The Watson Speech services were released in January 2025 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.8.

Operand version: 4.8.8

This release includes the following changes:

Security issues fixed in this release: CVE-2024-1737, CVE-2024-1975, CVE-2024-2236, CVE-2024-4603, CVE-2024-5321, CVE-2024-5742, CVE-2024-6119, CVE-2024-6232, CVE-2024-8088, CVE-2024-9143, CVE-2024-24789, CVE-2024-26458, CVE-2024-26461, CVE-2024-26462, CVE-2024-34397, CVE-2024-37891, CVE-2024-45492, CVE-2024-48958; CVE-2023-0216, CVE-2023-0217, CVE-2023-0401, CVE-2023-2975, CVE-2023-3817, CVE-2023-4807, CVE-2023-5156, CVE-2023-5678, CVE-2023-6237, CVE-2023-27533, CVE-2023-27534, CVE-2023-28319, CVE-2023-28320, CVE-2023-31484, CVE-2023-31486, CVE-2023-36632, CVE-2023-37920, CVE-2023-46218, CVE-2023-47100; CVE-2022-3996, CVE-2022-27774, CVE-2022-27775, CVE-2022-32205, CVE-2022-34903, CVE-2022-48303; CVE-2021-3998, CVE-2021-22898, CVE-2021-22901, CVE-2021-22923, CVE-2021-22925, CVE-2021-22946, CVE-2021-38604, CVE-2021-43396

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.7

The Watson Speech services were released in October 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.7.

Operand version: 4.8.7

This release includes the following changes:

Security issues fixed in this release: CVE-2024-3660, CVE-2024-5569, CVE-2024-6119, CVE-2024-6345, CVE-2024-24806, CVE-2024-31580, CVE-2024-31583, CVE-2024-34750, CVE-2024-39331, CVE-2024-39689; CVE-2023-33976

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.6

The Watson Speech services were released in August 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.6.

Operand version: 4.8.6

This release includes the following changes:

Security issues fixed in this release: CVE-2024-4032, CVE-2024-35326, CVE-2024-35328, CVE-2024-39689; CVE-2023-21930, CVE-2023-21937, CVE-2023-21938, CVE-2023-21939, CVE-2023-21954, CVE-2023-21967

Cloud Pak for DataVersion 4.8.5

The Watson Speech services were released in April 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.5.

Operand version: 4.8.5

This release includes the following changes:

Security issues fixed in this release: CVE-2024-0985, CVE-2024-1597, CVE-2024-22243, CVE-2024-28122; CVE-2023-4785, CVE-2023-28487, CVE-2023-35116, CVE-2023-46136, CVE-2023-49083, CVE-2023-50782; CVE-2022-4285, CVE-2022-44840, CVE-2022-45146; CVE-2021-25740, CVE-2021-46174; CVE-2020-23903

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.4

The Watson Speech services were released in March 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.4.

Operand version: 4.8.4

This release includes the following changes:

Security issues fixed in this release: CVE-2024-21626; CVE-2023-32681, CVE-2023-43804, CVE-2023-45803; CVE-2022-24903

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.3

The Watson Speech services were released in February 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.3.

Operand version: 4.8.3

This release includes the following changes:

Installing or upgrading with expressive voices: You can install or upgrade to 4.8.3 with expressive voices enabled. See the known issue.
Security issues fixed in this release: CVE-2023-31484, CVE-2023-31486, CVE-2023-48795; CVE-2022-29154; CVE-2020-26137; CVE-2019-11236

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.2

The Watson Speech services were released in January 2024 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.2.

Operand version: 4.8.2

This release includes the following changes:

New "small_minreqcpu" size option for CPU resources

With this size option, pod settings are optimized so that minimal resources are reserved on your clusters. For scaling resources, see the procedure for Watson Speech services in Manually scaling resources for services topic.

Language Model Customization improvement

The Language Model Customization is enhanced for improved recognition accuracy when you are using customization for the following models:

de-DE_Telephony
en-AU_Telephony
en-GB_Telephony
en-IN_Telephony
en-US_Telephony
fr-FR_Telephony
de-DE_Multimedia
en-AU_Multimedia
en-GB_Multimedia
en-US_Multimedia
fr-FR_Multimedia

Security issues fixed in this release

CVE-2023-5072, CVE-2023-41080, CVE-2023-42795, CVE-2023-43642, CVE-2023-45648, CVE-2023-46120, CVE-2023-46137

CVE-2022-39348

Cloud Pak for Data Version 4.8.0

The Watson Speech services were released in November 2023 with Cloud Pak for Data 4.8.0.

Operand version: 4.8.0

This release includes the following changes:

Security issues fixed in this release: CVE-2023-1667 *, CVE-2023-2283 *, CVE-2023-2602 *, CVE-2023-2603 *, CVE-2023-2650 *, CVE-2023-3899 *, CVE-2023-23931 *, CVE-2023-26604 *, CVE-2023-27536 *, CVE-2023-28484 *, CVE-2023-29406 *, CVE-2023-29409 *, CVE-2023-29469 *, CVE-2023-32360, CVE-2023-32681 *, CVE-2023-34969 *, CVE-2023-34981, CVE-2023-37920 *, CVE-2023-38325, CVE-2023-39533 *; CVE-2022-0778 *, CVE-2022-3697 *, CVE-2022-36087 *, CVE-2022-45688, CVE-2022-48560 *, CVE-2022-48564 *, CVE-2022-48565 *, CVE-2022-48566 *; CVE-2021-3583 *, CVE-2021-3701 *, CVE-2021-3702 *, CVE-2021-3711 *, CVE-2021-3712 *, CVE-2021-4041 *, CVE-2021-4160 *, CVE-2021-35942 *; CVE-2020-1736 *, CVE-2020-1751 *, CVE-2020-1752 *, CVE-2020-10029 *, CVE-2020-10543 *, CVE-2020-10878 *, CVE-2020-12723 *, CVE-2020-14330 *, CVE-2020-24736 *; CVE-2019-9923 *, CVE-2019-19126 *; CVE-2018-6913 *, CVE-2018-18311 *, CVE-2018-18312 *, CVE-2018-18313 *, CVE-2018-18314 *; Note: * Marked issues are fixed in the operator image.