Azure Bot Service Plugin 1.11.0 Released

[Arsen Chaloyan]

Microsoft Azure Bot Service (ABS) Plugin 1.11.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.

The plugin is based on the following components:

• Azure Speech SDK 1.22.0

The plugin supports the following APIs:

• Bot Service via Direct Line Speech
• Bot Service via Speech-to-Text and Direct Line

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 8
  • unimrcp-azure-bot-1.7.11-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-azure-bot-1.8.7-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• Red Hat 9
  • unimrcp-azure-bot-1.7.11-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-azure-bot-1.8.7-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-azure-bot_1.7.11-jammy_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-azure-bot_1.8.7-jammy_amd64.deb
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-azure-bot_1.7.11-noble_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-azure-bot_1.8.7-noble_amd64.deb

This release adds support for speech transcription using native 8 kHz audio stream without upsampling to 16 kHz.

The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.

New Features

• Added support for speech transcription using native 8 kHz audio stream without upsampling to 16 kHz.

Fixed Problems

• None.

Configuration Parameters

• Added a new attribute 'enforce-16kHz' to the element 'streaming-recognition'. The attribute defaults to false.

Miscellaneous

• Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.

Visit the Azure Bot Service plugin page for more information.

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

Thank you for using UniMRCP.

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