¶ Google SS Plugin 1.18.0
Aug 29, 2024
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
¶ Summary
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.
¶ Changes
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.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.17.2
Jul 31, 2023
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.17.2 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
Google APIs 1.7.0
gRPC 1.30.3
Protobuf 3.12.2
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 / CentOS 7
unimrcp-gss-1.7.16-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
unimrcp-gss-1.8.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm- Red Hat / CentOS 8
unimrcp-gss-1.7.16-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
unimrcp-gss-1.8.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
unimrcp-gss_1.7.16-focal_amd64.deb
unimrcp-gss_1.8.3-focal_amd64.deb- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
unimrcp-gss_1.7.16-jammy_amd64.deb
unimrcp-gss_1.8.3-jammy_amd64.deb
¶ Summary
This release is built against a newer version of Google APIs.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- None.
¶ Fixed Problems
- None.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- None.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Upgraded Google APIs from unigoogleapis-1.6.0 to unigoogleapis-1.7.0.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.17.1
May 18, 2023
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.17.1 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
Google APIs 1.6.0
gRPC 1.30.3
Protobuf 3.12.2
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 / CentOS 7
unimrcp-gss-1.7.15-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
unimrcp-gss-1.8.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm- Red Hat / CentOS 8
unimrcp-gss-1.7.15-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
unimrcp-gss-1.8.2-1.el8.x86_64.rpm- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
unimrcp-gss_1.7.15-bionic_amd64.deb
unimrcp-gss_1.8.2-bionic_amd64.deb- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
unimrcp-gss_1.7.15-focal_amd64.deb
unimrcp-gss_1.8.2-focal_amd64.deb- Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
unimrcp-gss_1.7.15-jammy_amd64.deb
unimrcp-gss_1.8.2-jammy_amd64.deb
¶ Summary
This is a patch release providing a fix for max-file-age which can optionally be specified for waveforms.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- None.
¶ Fixed Problems
- Fixed processing of max-file-age, which can optionally be set for waveforms, to properly remove file entries when max-file-age is reached. This is a regression introduced in 1.13.1.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- None.
¶ Miscellaneous
- None.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.17.0
Dec 30, 2022
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.17.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
Google APIs 1.6.0
gRPC 1.30.3
Protobuf 3.12.2
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 / CentOS 7
unimrcp-gss-1.7.14-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
unimrcp-gss-1.8.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm- Red Hat / CentOS 8
unimrcp-gss-1.7.14-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
unimrcp-gss-1.8.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
unimrcp-gss_1.7.14-bionic_amd64.deb
unimrcp-gss_1.8.1-bionic_amd64.deb- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
unimrcp-gss_1.7.14-focal_amd64.deb
unimrcp-gss_1.8.1-focal_amd64.deb
¶ Summary
The licensing toolkit has been extended to support flexible license distribution allowing for a more efficient use of licenses. The change applies to the use of floating licenses via a license server only. There are no functional changes in the use of node-bound licenses.
The licenses stored on a shared license store are dynamically re-distributed at runtime based on the actual usage. There is no need to pre-allocate a fixed number of licenses on initial loading of UniMRCP Server instances.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- Added support for flexible license distribution.
¶ Fixed Problems
- None.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- None.
¶ Miscellaneous
- None.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.16.0
Oct 3, 2022
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.16.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.7.0
Google APIs 1.6.0
gRPC 1.30.3
Protobuf 3.12.2
The plugin supports the following Google Text-to-Speech API version:
v1
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.13-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.13-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.13-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.13-focal_amd64.deb)
¶ Summary
This release is built against a newer version of Google APIs. The release adds support for custom voice models.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- Added support for custom voice models. Only the real-time usage is supported for custom voices with no caching available in the offline mode.
¶ Fixed Problems
- None.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- Added a new attribute 'custom-voice-model' to the element 'synth-settings'.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Upgraded Google APIs from unigoogleapis-1.5.0 to unigoogleapis-1.6.0.
- Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.15.1
Aug 17, 2022
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.15.1 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.7.0
Google APIs 1.5.0
gRPC 1.30.3
Protobuf 3.12.2
The plugin supports the following Google Text-to-Speech API version:
v1
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.12-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.12-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.12-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.12-focal_amd64.deb)
¶ Summary
This is a patch release providing fixes for two race conditions.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- None.
¶ Fixed Problems
- Fixed a possible segfault when the channel is being closed while the speech synthesis request is still in progress. This problem was caused by a specific behavior of Genesys PureConnect and was only partially fixed in GSS 1.12.0.
- Fixed a race condition in processing of the STOP request and the SPEAK-COMPLETE event which could possibly cause a license depletion.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- None.
¶ Miscellaneous
- None.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.15.0
Aug 8, 2022
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.15.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.7.0
Google APIs 1.5.0
gRPC 1.30.3
Protobuf 3.12.2
The plugin supports the following Google Text-to-Speech API version:
v1
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.11-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.11-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.11-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.11-focal_amd64.deb)
¶ Summary
The release also adds support for vendor-specific parameters specified as query parameters of xml:base in SSML.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- Allow the client to specify vendor-specific parameters via query parameters of the xml:base attribute in an SSML content.
¶ Fixed Problems
- None.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- None.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.14.0
Jul 15, 2022
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.14.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.7.0
Google APIs 1.5.0
gRPC 1.30.3
Protobuf 3.12.2
The plugin supports the following Google Text-to-Speech API version:
v1
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.10-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.10-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.10-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.10-focal_amd64.deb)
¶ Summary
This release adds support for regional service endpoints.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- Added support for regional service endpoints.
¶ Fixed Problems
- None.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- Added a new attribute 'region' to the element 'synth-settings'.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.13.1
Jun 3, 2022
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.13.1 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.7.0
Google APIs 1.5.0
gRPC 1.30.3
Protobuf 3.12.2
The plugin supports the following Google Text-to-Speech API version:
v1
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.9-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.9-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.9-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.9-focal_amd64.deb)
¶ Summary
This release fixes a possible segfault.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- None.
¶ Fixed Problems
- Fixed a possible segfault occurred when two file entries (waveforms and/or SDRs) have the same creation time captured in msec, which is a very rare occasion not involved in the regular operation. This is a regression introduced in 1.13.0.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- None.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Log submitted gRPC requests in JSON format.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.13.0
Mar 28, 2022
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) 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
Google APIs 1.5.0
gRPC 1.30.3
Protobuf 3.12.2
The plugin supports the following Google Text-to-Speech API version:
v1
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.8-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.8-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.8-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.8-focal_amd64.deb)
¶ Summary
This release improves memory usage when caching is enabled and provides a few fixes.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- 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
- Improved memory usage while dealing with a large set of cache records by loading a cahce record from file on demand and releasing the memory after the cache record is no longer referenced.
- Fixed a possible memory leak occurred on addition of two file entries (waveforms and/or SDRs) with the same creation time, which is a very rare occasion not involved in the regular operation.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- Added a new attribute 'security-level' to the element 'license-server'.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.
- Do not log an intentional warning if voice-gender loaded from configuration is an empty string (not specified).
- Added new log statements related to the caching routine.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.12.0
Nov 1, 2021
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.12.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.7.0
Google APIs 1.5.0
gRPC 1.30.3
Protobuf 3.12.2
The plugin supports the following Google Text-to-Speech API version:
v1
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.7-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.7-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.7-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.7-focal_amd64.deb)
¶ Summary
This release provides a few fixes and improvements in the existing functionality.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- Allow voice name and gender be also specified via Vendor-Specific-Parameters using voice-name and voice-gender tokens correspondingly.
- Output license and maintenance expiration dates to status files, if/when applicable.
¶ Fixed Problems
- Fixed a possible segfault when the channel is being closed while the speech synthesis request is still in progress. This problem was caused by a specific behavior of Genesys PureConnect.
- Fixed a possible segfault on processing of the header field Logging-Tag having an empty [no] value.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- None.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.11.1
Aug 9, 2021
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.11.1 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.7.0
Google APIs 1.5.0
gRPC 1.30.3
Protobuf 3.12.2
The plugin supports the following Google Text-to-Speech API version:
v1
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.6-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.6-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.6-focal_amd64.deb)
¶ Summary
This release is built against a newer version of Google APIs and a patched version of the gRPC library.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- None.
¶ Fixed Problems
- None.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- None.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Patched the gRPC library to allow the user application to set audience/scope on requests sent to Google.
- Upgraded Google APIs from unigoogleapis-1.4.0 to unigoogleapis-1.5.0.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.11.0
Mar 5, 2021
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.11.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.7.0
Google APIs 1.4.0
gRPC 1.30.2
Protobuf 3.12.2
The plugin supports the following Google Text-to-Speech API version:
v1
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.5-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.5-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.5-xenial_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.5-bionic_amd64.deb)
¶ Summary
The Google account credentials can now be specified by the user application per MRCP session. The release is built against a newer version of Google APIs.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- Allow the user application to specify the parameters 'gapp-credentials-file', 'service-uri' per MRCP session. The parameters set in the first SPEAK request via the header field Vendor-Specific-Parameters are observed for creation of a gRPC channel.
- Added support for playing out wav files via SPEAK requests referenced either by file:// or http://localhost/utterances URIs.
¶ Fixed Problems
- None.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- Added a new attribute 'service-uri' to the element 'synth-settings'.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Upgraded Google APIs from unigoogleapis-1.3.0 to unigoogleapis-1.4.0.
- Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.10.0
Oct 15, 2020
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.10.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.7.0
Google Text-to-Speech API v1
gRPC 1.30.2
Protobuf 3.12.2
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.4-xenial_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.4-bionic_amd64.deb)
¶ Summary
This release adds support for reattempting a failed gRPC call and allows to specify a deadline. The release is built against a newer version of Google APIs.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- Added support for gRPC call deadline which can be set from the configuration.
- Added support for reattempting a failed gRPC call.
¶ Fixed Problems
- None.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- Added a new attribute 'deadline' to the element 'synth-settings'. The attribute is specified in msec and defaults to 0 (not used).
- Added a new attribute 'reattempt' to the element 'synth-settings'. The attribute can be set either to 'true' or 'false' and defaults to 'false' (not used).
¶ Miscellaneous
- Upgraded Google APIs from unigoogleapis-1.2.0 to unigoogleapis-1.3.0.
- Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.9.0
Aug 20, 2020
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.9.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.7.0
Google Text-to-Speech API v1
gRPC 1.30.2
Protobuf 3.12.2
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.3-xenial_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.3-bionic_amd64.deb)
¶ Summary
This release is built against newer versions of gRPC, Protobuf and Google APIs. The release adds support for default prosody parameters specified from configuration.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- Allow default prosody rate (speaking_rate), volume (volume_gain_db) and pitch to be specified from configuration.
¶ Fixed Problems
- None.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- Added new attributes 'prosody-rate', 'prosody-volume' and 'prosody-pitch' to the element 'synth-settings'. The attributes are not set/used by default.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Upgraded the gRPC library from 1.20.0 to 1.30.2 version.
- Upgraded the Protobuf library from 3.7.0 to 3.12.2 version.
- Upgraded Google APIs from unigoogleapis-1.1.0 to unigoogleapis-1.2.0.
- Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.8.0
May 25, 2020
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.8.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.7.0
Google Text-to-Speech API v1
gRPC 1.20.0
Protobuf 3.7.0
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.2-xenial_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.2-bionic_amd64.deb)
¶ Summary
This release introduces support for caching of synthesized waveforms.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- Added support for caching of synthesized waveforms. See Sections 4.2 and 5.9 in the Usage Guide for more info.
¶ Fixed Problems
- None.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- Added a new attribute 'caching' to the element 'synth-settings'. The attribute defaults to 'false'.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.7.0
Apr 10, 2020
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.7.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.7.0
Google Text-to-Speech API v1
gRPC 1.20.0
Protobuf 3.7.0
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.7.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.1-xenial_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.7.1-bionic_amd64.deb)
¶ Summary
This release introduces support for multiple Google account credentials. The release is built against an upgraded version of Google APIs.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- Added support for multiple Google account credentials, which can be specified either per server profile or per MRCP session via feature tags.
- Added support for audio effects profile.
¶ Fixed Problems
- None.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- Added a new attribute 'effects-profile' to the element 'synth-settings'.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Upgraded Google APIs (unigoogleapis-1.1.0).
- Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.6.0
Nov 22, 2019
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.6.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.6.0
Google Text-to-Speech API v1
gRPC 1.7.3
Protobuf 3.4.0
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.6.5-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.6.5-xenial_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.6.5-bionic_amd64.deb)
¶ Summary
This release introduces numerous supplementary features and enhancements to the existing functionality.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- Made service URI configurable mostly to allow to specify not only the address but also the port number of the service, which is required when UniMRCP server is behind TMG HTTP proxy.
- If a configuration parameter 'use-logging-tag' is set to 'true', the header field Logging-Tag, if specified, is used as a suffix while composing file names of waveforms and SDRs.
- Implemented redirection of logs produced by the gRPC library. This feature is disabled by default and can be controlled by new configuration parameter 'grpc-log-redirection', 'grpc-log-verbosity' and 'grpc-log-trace'.
- Added support for HTTP proxy in communication with license servers available as a service.
¶ Fixed Problems
- None.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- Added a new attribute 'service-uri' to the element 'synth-settings'. The attribute defaults to 'texttospeech.googleapis.com' and can also be set to 'texttospeech.googleapis.com:443'.
- Added new attributes 'grpc-log-redirection', 'grpc-log-verbosity' and 'grpc-log-trace' to the element 'synth-settings'.
- Added new attributes 'http-proxy-address' and 'http-proxy-port' to the element 'license-server'.
- Added new attribute 'use-logging-tag' to the elements 'waveform-manager' and 'sdr-manager'.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.5.0
Apr 2, 2019
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.5.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.6.0
Google Text-to-Speech API v1
gRPC 1.7.3
Protobuf 3.4.0
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.6.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.6.2-xenial_amd64.deb)
¶ Summary
This release addresses an interoperability issue with AEP and also introduces the ability to split SSML content into multiple segments.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
New Features
- If 'bypass-ssml' is set to false, and multiple voice elements are present in supplied SSML, then the content is split into multiple segments per voice element. Each segment is sent to the service in a sequential order. Streaming to the client is started as soon as synthesis of the first segment is complete.
¶ Fixed Problems
- If a SPEAK request is stopped when synthesized speech is being streamed to the client, then the remaining part of the synthesized speech could be left in media buffer and be streamed on a consecutive SPEAK request received in the scope of the same MRCP session. Fixed interoperability with AEP.
- When license server is in use, fixed processing of a connection hang-up event occurred when a license refresh request is being sent to the license server. This event could result in a few seconds-long outage of the service.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- None.
¶ Miscellaneous
- None.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.4.0
Feb 21, 2019
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.4.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.6.0
Google Text-to-Speech API v1
gRPC 1.7.3
Protobuf 3.4.0
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-gss-1.6.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-gss_1.6.1-xenial_amd64.deb)
¶ Summary
This release fixes the use of annual node-bound licenses, and an issue in interoperability with Genesys PureConnect. There are other minor improvements introduced in the release.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- If enabled from configuration, SSML content passed to the service is normalized to conform to the subset of SSML supported by Google Text-to-Speech API.
- The HTTP proxy URI, if used, can now be specified from configuration instead of an environment variable.
- Set an alarm in the status file if the license server is not reachable for a certain period of time, but the service is not yet affected. Clear the alarm as soon as the license server becomes available. See Section 6.2 in the Usage Guide.
¶ Fixed Problems
- Added support for optional parameters set in the header field Content-Type [application/ssml+xml; charset=utf-8]. Fixed interoperability with Genesys PureConnect.
- If an annual node-bound license is used, the expiration time of the license could be provisioned incorrectly, requiring a restart of the service in order to continue normal operation.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- Added a new attribute 'normalize-ssml' to the element 'synth-settings'.
- Added a new attribute 'http-proxy' to the element 'synth-settings'.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Changed log level of statements made for setting voice parameters from Debug to Info.
- Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.3.0
Oct 21, 2018
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.3.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.5.0
Google Text-to-Speech API v1
gRPC 1.7.3
Protobuf 3.4.0
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
¶ Summary
This release is built against Text-to-Speech v1 API, and fixes processing of malformed SPEAK requests with an empty body.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- None.
¶ Fixed Problems
- Fixed processing of SPEAK requests with an empty body to return an error.
- All the internal common class names are declared under a unique namespace not to cause a conflict with other speech synthesis plugins being loaded in to the same instance of UniMRCP server.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- None.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Switched from Text-to-Speech v1beta1 to v1 API.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.2.0
Aug 10, 2018
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.2.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.5.0
Google Text-to-Speech API v1beta1
gRPC 1.7.3
Protobuf 3.4.0
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
¶ Summary
This release adds support for collection of synthesis details records (SDR) and synthesized waveforms, which can be later analyzed and listened offline.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- Added support for collection of synthesis details records (SDR) and synthesized waveforms, which can be later analyzed and listened offline.
- Keep track of the maximum number of channels used concurrently. This number is logged by default within the statement 'GSS Usage' and can also be written in the status file, if enabled.
¶ Fixed Problems
- None.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- Added a new element 'waveform-manager'.
- Added a new element 'sdr-manager'.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Updated the Usage Guide to reflect the changes introduced in this release.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.1.0
May 24, 2018
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.1.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.5.0
Google Text-to-Speech API v1beta1
gRPC 1.7.3
Protobuf 3.4.0
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
¶ Summary
This release allows the voice name and gender parameters be specified globally in configuration file and also in SSML content per individual SPEAK request.
¶ Changes
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
¶ New Features
- Added support for the default voice name and gender parameters be optionally specified from configuration file.
- Added support for the voice name and gender parameters be specified in SSML content per individual SPEAK request. In order for this feature to be activated, a new configuration parameter 'bypass-ssml' must be set to 'false'.
¶ Fixed Problems
- None.
¶ Configuration Parameters
- Added a new attribute 'voice-name' to the element 'synth-settings', which is not specified by default.
- Added a new attribute 'voice-gender' to the element 'synth-settings', which is not specified by default.
- Added a new attribute 'bypass-ssml' to the element 'synth-settings', which is set to 'true' by default.
¶ Miscellaneous
- Updated the Usage Guide accordingly.
¶ Google SS Plugin 1.0.0
May 24, 2018
Google Speech Synthesis (GSS) Plugin 1.0.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.5.0
Google Text-to-Speech API v1beta1
gRPC 1.7.3
Protobuf 3.4.0
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
¶ Summary
The plugin allows IVR platforms to utilize the Google Cloud Text-to-Speech API via MRCP. The connection to the globally accessible service is maintained via gRPC, which ensures secure, reliable and fast transmission of data over the Internet.