Nuance SS Plugin 1.1.0 Released

[Arsen Chaloyan]

Nuance Speech Synthesis (SS) Plugin 1.1.0 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-1.7.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-nuance-ss-1.8.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• Red Hat / CentOS 8
  • unimrcp-nuance-ss-1.7.2-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-nuance-ss-1.8.2-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-nuance-ss_1.7.2-focal_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-nuance-ss_1.8.2-focal_amd64.deb
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-nuance-ss_1.7.2-jammy_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-nuance-ss_1.8.2-jammy_amd64.deb

This release provides minor improvements and fixes.

The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.

New Features

• If bypass-ssml is set to false and normalize-ssml is true, then make sure there is a voice element in the SSML content to conform to the requirements of neural voices.

Fixed Problems

• Fixed processing of max-file-age, which can optionally be set for waveforms, to properly remove file entries when max-file-age is reached.
• Make sure special characters in credentials are URL-encoded.

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