Asterisk UniMRCP Modules 1.8.0 release has been published and can be downloaded from the following location:

asterisk-modules-1.8.0

The released source package contains bare modules compatible with the following versions of Asterisk and UniMRCP:

• Asterisk 1.6, 1.8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18
• UniMRCP > 1.1.0

This release extends the helper function RECOG_INTSNACE() and fixes a few issues related to the use of codecs requiring translation from the native format.

All the changes are made to be backward compatible. Nothing has to be changed in the existing applications.

The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.

1. Generic Speech Recognition API (res_speech_unimrcp.so)

• N/A.

2. Dialplan Applications (app_unimrcp.so)

2.1. MRCPSynth()

• Added a new option 'vsp' allowing to specify Vendor-Specific-Parameters in SPEAK.
• Reset the write translator before setting a new write format.
• Fixed the write format path for codecs requiring a translation from the native format to be used on the MRCP leg.

2.2. MRCPRecog()

• Extended RECOG_INSTANCE() to optionally return individual fields from the element represented in either XML or JSON.
• Added a new option 'vsp' allowing to specify Vendor-Specific-Parameters in RECOGNIZE.
• Reset the read translator before setting a new read format.
• Fixed the read format path for codecs requiring a translation from the native format to be used on the MRCP leg.

2.3. SynthAndRecog()

• Extended RECOG_INSTANCE() to optionally return individual fields from the element represented in either XML or JSON.
• Added new options 'vsp', 'vsprec' and 'vspsyn' allowing to specify Vendor-Specific-Parameters in SPEAK and/or RECOGNIZE.
• Reset the read/write translators before setting new read/write formats.
• Fixed the read/write format paths for codecs requiring a translation from the native format to be used on the MRCP leg.

2.4. Framework

• N/A.

3. Miscellaneous

• Added support for Asterisk 18.
• Added sample profiles ums2 and ums1 to the default configuration file mrcp.conf.
• Added comments to the default configuration file res-speech-unimrcp.conf.

Thank you for using UniMRCP.

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