Microsoft Azure Speech Synthesis (SS) Plugin 1.20.0 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 / CentOS 7
  • unimrcp-azure-ss-1.7.14-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-azure-ss-1.8.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
• Red Hat / CentOS 8
  • unimrcp-azure-ss-1.7.14-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
  • unimrcp-azure-ss-1.8.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-azure-ss_1.7.14-bionic_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-azure-ss_1.8.1-bionic_amd64.deb
• Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
  • unimrcp-azure-ss_1.7.14-focal_amd64.deb
  • unimrcp-azure-ss_1.8.1-focal_amd64.deb

This release adds support for MS TTS extension to SSML. Long voice names are replaced with corresponding short voice names in umsazurevoices.xml.

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