Thingpedia has hit a new milestone: we now have more than 100 publicly
available devices and services.
We are introducing Aggregations: you can now use ThingTalk to compute
the minimum, maximum, average and sum across your functions that return
lists, without special purpose code.
That also means that, with enough training data, your users can also
ask for aggregated results. Newly supported commands include:
"how many emails did I receive today?"
"what's the largest file in my dropbox?"
"what's the total size of my dropbox file in a certain folder?"
I should highlight that the amount of training data we have for these
new commands is not yet comprehensive. Expect natural language to be
limited for now, but at least the feature is available in ThingTalk.
Also in this release is a refresh to our website, which now includes a
blog:
https://almond.stanford.edu/blog
We will use this blog primarily to expand on our papers and research
results, but we will also post new features and announcements for the
Almond platform.
RSS feed for the blog is available at
https://almond.stanford.edu/blog/feed.rss
The OAuth implementation of Almond was overhauled. The new
implementation should be more secure and more compliant to the
standard. As a side effect, all access tokens have been invalidated.
For further info on the new release, please see the Changelogs on
Github.
The release happened on 12/12/2018.