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Watson SS Plugin 1.4.0 Released


IBM Watson Speech Synthesis (SS) Plugin 1.4.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.

The plugin is based on the following components:

  • UniMRCP Server 1.6.0
  • IBM Watson Text to Speech API v1
  • Libevent 2.1.9
  • Rapidjson 1.1.0

The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:

  • Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-watson-ss-1.6.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-watson-ss_1.6.3-xenial_amd64.deb)
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-watson-ss_1.6.3-bionic_amd64.deb)

This release adds support for custom voice models. The release fixes a few minor problems.

The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
New Features
  • Added support for custom voice models.
Fixed Problems
  • Fixed processing of optional parameters set in the header field Content-Type [application/ssml+xml; charset=utf-8].
  • Fixed output format of an SDR to strictly conform to JSON.
  • Fixed escaping of double quotes in SSML content passed to the service.
Configuration Parameters
  • Added a new configuration parameter 'customization-id'.
Miscellaneous
  • Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.

Visit the Watson SS plugin page for more information.

http://www.unimrcp.org/wss

Thank you for using UniMRCP.

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

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