Azure SS Plugin 1.25.0 Released

[Arsen Chaloyan]

Microsoft Azure Speech Synthesis (SS) Plugin 1.25.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.

The plugin is based on the following components:

• Microsoft Text-to-Speech REST API
• Libevent 2.1.9
• Rapidjson 1.1.0

The plugin supports the following endpoints:

• Speech Service (regional)
• Custom Speech Service (regional)
• Speech Service (containerized)
• Custom Speech Service (containerized)
• Speech Service (private)
• Custom Speech Service (private)

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-ss-1.7.20-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-azure-ss-1.8.7-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• Red Hat 9
  • unimrcp-azure-ss-1.7.20-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-azure-ss-1.8.7-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-azure-ss_1.7.20-focal_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-azure-ss_1.8.7-focal_amd64.deb
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-azure-ss_1.7.20-jammy_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-azure-ss_1.8.7-jammy_amd64.deb

This release adds support for mutual TLS. The release allows to support WSO2 authentication and a custom authenticator.

The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.

New Features

• Allow to specify a default voice per language in umsazurevoices.xml.
• Added support for mutual TLS by allowing to specify a private key, client certificate and CA files from the plugin configuration.
• Added support for WSO2 authentication by allowing to specify an auth secret in addition to an auth key.
• Added support for a custom authenticator by allowing to specify arbitrary name/value parameters within a JSON object.

Fixed Problems

• None.

Configuration Parameters

• Added a new attribute 'default' to the element 'voice'.

Miscellaneous

• Discontinued packages for Red Hat 7.
• Added packages for Red Hat 9.
• Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.

Visit the Azure SS plugin page for more information.

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

Thank you for using UniMRCP.

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