Microsoft Azure Speech Synthesis (SS) Plugin 1.30.0 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 8
  • unimrcp-azure-ss-1.7.26-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-azure-ss-1.8.13-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• Red Hat 9
  • unimrcp-azure-ss-1.7.26-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-azure-ss-1.8.13-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
• Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-azure-ss_1.7.26-jammy_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-azure-ss_1.8.13-jammy_amd64.deb
• Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-azure-ss_1.7.26-noble_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-azure-ss_1.8.13-noble_amd64.deb

This release allows to skip voice selection from the list of voices specified in umsazurevoices.xml by having a voice name specified explicitly either in the plugin configuration file and/or per SPEAK request.

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