Release 2.17.0

What's Changed

• Merge release/2.16.0 to main by @rmittal-github in #84
• asr: add model name parameter by @virajkarandikar in #85
• pin grpcio to 1.64.1 by @virajkarandikar in #86
• pin setuptools to 65 by @virajkarandikar in #87
• Update talk.py by @virajkarandikar in #88
• Update talk.py by @virajkarandikar in #89
• Update setuptools to 70 to address CVEs by @virajkarandikar in #90
• Add custom dictionary parameter to tts py-client by @manishaj-nv in #82
• Update grpcio to 1.65.4 by @virajkarandikar in #91
• Update package_info.py by @rmittal-github in #92
• Adding AST support to python clients by @sarane22 in #94
• Accept max_speaker_count as input in ASR Transcription client by @pskrunner14 in #97

New Contributors

• @pskrunner14 made their first contribution in #97

Full Changelog: r2.16.0...r2.17.0