Azure Bot Service Plugin 1.6.0 Released

[Arsen Chaloyan]

Microsoft Azure Bot Service (ABS) Plugin 1.6.0 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:

• LUIS
• 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 / CentOS 8
  • unimrcp-azure-bot-1.7.6-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-azure-bot-1.8.2-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-azure-bot_1.7.6-bionic_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-azure-bot_1.8.2-bionic_amd64.deb
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-azure-bot_1.7.6-focal_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-azure-bot_1.8.2-focal_amd64.deb

This release adds support for an alternate approach interacting with the Bot Service by performing streaming speech transcription first using the regular WebSocket Speech API and then placing a follow-up request using the Direct Line API. This approach allows to overcome limitations of the MS Speech SDK in support of streaming speech transcription in a multi-turn conversation.

The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.

New Features

• Added support for a new api called 'stt-dsc' as an alternative to 'dcs'.

Fixed Problems

• None.

Configuration Parameters

• None.

Miscellaneous

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

Reference

• LUIS
  
• Azure Bot Service
  

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