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Azure SR Plugin 1.21.0 Released


Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.21.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.

The plugin is based on the following components:

  • UniMRCP Server 1.7.0
  • Microsoft Speech WebSocket Protocol
  • 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 binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:

  • Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.13-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
  • Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.13-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.13-bionic_amd64.deb)
  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.13-focal_amd64.deb)

This release provides a few improvements and fixes.

The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
New Features
  • If/when the Websocket connection is unexpectedly closed by the service while a RECOGNIZE request is in-progress, allow to implictly reconnect to the service (auto-reconnect), optionally restream the last audio data chunks (max-audio-data-chunks) and continue processing of the in-progress request.
  • Allow to set maximum duration on a Websocket connection.
  • Added support for sorting result alternatives based on confidence score (the highest first).
  • Made separator of built-in grammar parameters configurable.
  • Set the SSL security level to 1 by default. This setting applies to the use of the license server on Ubuntu 20.04 and does not affect other supported distributions.
Fixed Problems
  • Fixed a possible memory leak occurred when two file entries (waveforms and/or RDRs) have the same creation time, which is a very rare occasion not involved in the regular operation.
Configuration Parameters
  • Added new attributes 'auto-reconnect' and 'max-audio-data-chunks' to the element 'ws-streaming-recognition'.
  • Added a new attribute 'max-connection-duration' to the element 'ws-streaming-recognition'.
  • Added a new attribute 'sort-alternatives' to the element 'ws-streaming-recognition'.
  • Added a new attribute 'grammar-param-separator' to the element 'ws-streaming-recognition'.
  • Added a new attribute 'security-level' to the element 'license-server'.
Miscellaneous
  • Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.

Visit the Azure SR plugin page for more information.

Thank you for using UniMRCP.

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

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