Nuance SS Plugin 1.2.1 Released

[Arsen Chaloyan]

Nuance Speech Synthesis (SS) Plugin 1.2.1 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.

The plugin is based on the following components:

• Nuance APIs 1.1.0
• gRPC 1.30.3
• Protobuf 3.12.2
• Libevent 2.1.9
• Rapidjson 1.1.0

The plugin supports the following Nuance Mix API:

• TTSaaS API v1

The plugin is available for the following UMS versions:

• 1.7.0
• 1.8.0

The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:

• Red Hat / CentOS 7
  • unimrcp-nuance-ss-1.7.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-nuance-ss-1.8.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• Red Hat / CentOS 8
  • unimrcp-nuance-ss-1.7.4-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-nuance-ss-1.8.4-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-nuance-ss_1.7.4-focal_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-nuance-ss_1.8.4-focal_amd64.deb
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-nuance-ss_1.7.4-jammy_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-nuance-ss_1.8.4-jammy_amd64.deb

This release adds support for deployments requiring no authentication. The release fixes processing of special characters in SSML.

The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.

New Features

• Added support for deployments requiring no authentication by allowing an empty auth endpoint specified in nuance.subscription.key.

Fixed Problems

• Make sure special characters are always escaped in SSML.

Configuration Parameters

• None.

Miscellaneous

• None.

Visit the Nuance SS plugin page for more information.

• https://unispeech.io/nuancess
• https://www.unimrcp.org/nuancess

Thank you for using UniMRCP.

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Arsen Chaloyan
Author of UniMRCP
http://www.unimrcp.org