Google SS Plugin 1.16.0 Released

[Arsen Chaloyan]

Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.16.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.

The plugin is based on the following components:

• UniMRCP Server 1.7.0
• Google APIs 1.6.0
• gRPC 1.30.3
• Protobuf 3.12.2

The plugin supports the following Google Text-to-Speech API version:

• v1

The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:

• Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.13-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
• Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.13-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.13-bionic_amd64.deb)
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.13-focal_amd64.deb)

This release is built against a newer version of Google APIs. The release adds support for custom voice models.

The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.

New Features

• Added support for custom voice models. Only the real-time usage is supported for custom voices with no caching available in the offline mode.

Fixed Problems

• None.

Configuration Parameters

• Added a new attribute 'custom-voice-model' to the element 'synth-settings'.

Miscellaneous

• Upgraded Google APIs from unigoogleapis-1.5.0 to unigoogleapis-1.6.0.
• Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.

Visit the GSS plugin page for more information.

• https://unispeech.io/gss
  
• http://www.unimrcp.org/gss
  

Thank you for using UniMRCP.

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