v19.8.2 The quite early release

Due to a possible major bug (voice process going haywire and filling the disk) this release got moved forward a couple of days.

Improve mic handling #2365, #2368

Especially the Mic Array v2 seemed prone to throw IO errors, this release adds a basic restart control allowing it to recover in some cases. The change also adds some extra safety to the mute/unmute operations which could theoretically cause an issue. In addition this resolves a possible issue with looping logging if an IOError occured.

Ask Selection #2302

The new MycroftSkill.ask_selection() method adds a simple way of asking the user to choose between a number of options. Many thanks to @JarbasAl for designing it. Read more about the method in the api documentation

Fix trigger listening over messagebus for Picroft #2366

The restructuring of how the get_response() or speak() with exepect_response=True methods triggers listening missed a special case on the Picroft platform. This small one-line change resolves the issue.

Misc

• Handling of fractions in Spanish #2356 (Big thanks to @ChanceNCounter)
• Minor fixup of the project Readme #2352 (Thank you @moritzgloeckl )