Microsoft Azure Speech Synthesis (SS) Plugin 1.13.0 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)
 
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
- Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-azure-ss-1.7.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
 
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-ss_1.7.3-xenial_amd64.deb)
 
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-ss_1.7.3-bionic_amd64.deb)
 
This release improves processing of HTTP chunked data and enhances debugging capabilities.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
New Features
- Improved processing of HTTP chunked data in order to start RTP streaming as soon as the first chunk is received.
 
- Set the HTTP header X-ConnectionId on every synthesis request placed to Azure TTS API, which can be used for debugging purposes while submitting a support ticket to MS.
 
Fixed Problems
- Fixed a possible memory leak on processing the second and consecutive SPEAK requests in the scope of a single MRCP session.
 
Configuration Parameters
Miscellaneous
- Log not only status code but also status text extracted from received HTTP responses.
 
 
Visit the Azure SS plugin page for more information.
http://www.unimrcp.org/azss
Thank you for using UniMRCP.
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Arsen Chaloyan
Author of UniMRCP
http://www.unimrcp.org