Powered by Universal Speech Solutions LLC

Menu
Announcements

Google SS Plugin 1.18.0 Released


Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.18.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.

The plugin is based on the following components:

  • Google APIs 1.8.0
  • gRPC 1.61.1
  • Protobuf 25.1

The plugin supports the following Google Text-to-Speech API version:

  • v1

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-gss-1.7.17-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
    • unimrcp-gss-1.8.4-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • Red Hat 9
    • unimrcp-gss-1.7.17-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
    • unimrcp-gss-1.8.4-1.el9.x86_64.rpm
  • Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
    • unimrcp-gss_1.7.17-focal_amd64.deb
    • unimrcp-gss_1.8.4-focal_amd64.deb
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
    • unimrcp-gss_1.7.17-jammy_amd64.deb
    • unimrcp-gss_1.8.4-jammy_amd64.deb

This release is built against newer versions of Protobuf, gRPC and Google APIs libraries. The release adds support for gRPC keepalive parameters which can be specified from the plugin configuration.

The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
New Features
  • Added support for gRPC keepalive parameters.
Fixed Problems
  • Make sure special characters are always escaped in SSML.
Configuration Parameters
  • Added new attributes 'grpc-keepalive-time', 'grpc-keepalive-timeout' and 'grpc-keepalive-without-calls' to the element 'synth-settings'.
Miscellaneous
  • Upgraded the gRPC library from 1.30.3 to 1.61.1 version.
  • Upgraded the Protobuf library from 3.12.2 to 25.1 version.
  • Upgraded Google APIs from unigoogleapis-1.7.0 to unigoogleapis-1.8.0.
  • Discontinued packages for Red Hat 7.
  • Added packages for Red Hat 9.
  • Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.

Visit the GSS plugin page for more information.

Thank you for using UniMRCP.

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

Announcement Group

Subscribe to the Announcements Group if you prefer to receive news and press releases only. Please note that announcements are normally posted to the Discussion Group as well.