Azure SS Plugin 1.21.1 Released

[Arsen Chaloyan]

Microsoft Azure Speech Synthesis (SS) Plugin 1.21.1 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 / CentOS 7
  • unimrcp-azure-ss-1.7.16-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-azure-ss-1.8.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• Red Hat / CentOS 8
  • unimrcp-azure-ss-1.7.16-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-azure-ss-1.8.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-azure-ss_1.7.16-bionic_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-azure-ss_1.8.3-bionic_amd64.deb
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-azure-ss_1.7.16-focal_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-azure-ss_1.8.3-focal_amd64.deb

This is a patch release fixing two minor issues.

The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.

New Features

• None.

Fixed Problems

• Do not set the header field Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key in the outgoing request when the subscription key is not specified (on-prem containers). This is a regression introduced since Azure SS 1.15.0 with the support of private endpoints causing no functional differences in most of the cases.
• Fixed generation of the <mstts:background> element which should be put in front of all <voice> elements and must be the first child of the <speak> element.

Configuration Parameters

• None.

Miscellaneous

• None.

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