Google SS Plugin 1.23.0 Released

[Arsen Chaloyan]

Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.23.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.

The plugin is based on the following components:

• Google APIs 1.10.0
• gRPC 1.61.1
• Protobuf 25.1

The plugin supports the following Google APIs:

• Text-to-Speech v1
• GenerativeLanguage v1beta (Gemini Flash TTS)

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-gss-1.7.22-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-gss-1.8.9-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• Red Hat 9
  • unimrcp-gss-1.7.22-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-gss-1.8.9-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-gss_1.7.22-jammy_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-gss_1.8.9-jammy_amd64.deb
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-gss_1.7.22-noble_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-gss_1.8.9-noble_amd64.deb

This release adds support for Gemini Flash TTS voices via the gRPC GenerativeLanguage API. The release is built against a newer version of Google APIs.

The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.

New Features

• Added support for the gRPC method BidiGenerateContent in the GenerativeLanguage API.
• Added support for advanced voice options applicable to the method SynthesizeSpeech only.
• Allow to specify instructions applicable to the methods BidiGenerateContent and StreamingSynthesize.

Fixed Problems

• None.

Configuration Parameters

• Added a new attribute 'instructions' to the element 'synth-settings'.
• Added a new attribute 'temperature' to the element 'synth-settings'.
• Added a new attribute 'advanced-voice-options-json' to the element 'synth-settings'.

Miscellaneous

• Upgraded Google APIs from unigoogleapis-1.9.0 to unigoogleapis-1.10.0.
• 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