Apr 12, 2023
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.25.1 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
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)
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-sr-1.7.23-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
unimrcp-azure-sr-1.8.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm- Red Hat / CentOS 8
unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.23-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
unimrcp-azure-sr-1.8.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.23-bionic_amd64.deb
unimrcp-azure-sr_1.8.3-bionic_amd64.deb- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.23-focal_amd64.deb
unimrcp-azure-sr_1.8.3-focal_amd64.deb
This is a patch release fixing two minor issues.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Dec 30, 2022
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.25.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
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)
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-sr-1.7.22-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
unimrcp-azure-sr-1.8.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm- Red Hat / CentOS 8
unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.22-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
unimrcp-azure-sr-1.8.2-1.el8.x86_64.rpm- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.22-bionic_amd64.deb
unimrcp-azure-sr_1.8.2-bionic_amd64.deb- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.22-focal_amd64.deb
unimrcp-azure-sr_1.8.2-focal_amd64.deb
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.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Dec 21, 2022
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.24.5 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
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)
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-sr-1.7.21-1.el7.x86_64.rpm
unimrcp-azure-sr-1.8.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm- Red Hat / CentOS 8
unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.21-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
unimrcp-azure-sr-1.8.1-1.el8.x86_64.rpm- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.21-bionic_amd64.deb
unimrcp-azure-sr_1.8.1-bionic_amd64.deb- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.20-focal_amd64.deb
unimrcp-azure-sr_1.8.1-focal_amd64.deb
This is a patch release which fixes a possible segfault when the service endpoint closes WebSocket connection without sending a turn.end event.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Oct 18, 2022
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.24.3 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)
Speech Service (private)
Custom Speech Service (private)
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.20-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.20-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.20-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.20-focal_amd64.deb)
This is a patch release which fixes two problems.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Sep 13, 2022
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.24.2 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)
Speech Service (private)
Custom Speech Service (private)
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.19-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.19-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.19-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.19-focal_amd64.deb)
This is a patch release which fixes two problems.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Sep 1, 2022
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.24.1 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)
Speech Service (private)
Custom Speech Service (private)
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.18-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.18-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.18-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.18-focal_amd64.deb)
This is a patch release which fixes a regression introduced in the previous 1.24.0 release.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Aug 8, 2022
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.24.0 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)
Speech Service (private)
Custom Speech Service (private)
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.17-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.17-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.17-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.17-focal_amd64.deb)
This release introduces support for multiple subscription key files specified per MRCP session. The release also supports additional vendor-specific parameters.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Jul 11, 2022
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.23.0 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)
Speech Service (private)
Custom Speech Service (private)
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.16-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.16-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.16-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.16-focal_amd64.deb)
This release introduces minor improvements in the WebSocket connection handling.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Jun 3, 2022
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.22.1 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)
Speech Service (private)
Custom Speech Service (private)
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.15-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.15-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.15-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.15-focal_amd64.deb)
This release fixes a possible segfault.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Apr 15, 2022
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.22.0 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)
Speech Service (private)
Custom Speech Service (private)
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.14-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.14-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.14-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.14-focal_amd64.deb)
This release fixes a possible segfault and provides a few improvements.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Mar 28, 2022
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.21.0 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)
Speech Service (private)
Custom Speech Service (private)
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.13-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.13-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.13-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.13-focal_amd64.deb)
This release provides a few improvements and fixes.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Nov 1, 2021
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.20.0 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)
Speech Service (private)
Custom Speech Service (private)
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.12-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.12-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.12-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.12-focal_amd64.deb)
This release introduces support for load balancing and failover of service endpoints which can optionally be specified in the configuration file of the plugin.
The release also adds support for triggering a webhook upon completion of speech transcription. The new feature allows for integration with 3-rd party natural language processing, sentiment analysis and other speech-related APIs.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Sep 1, 2021
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.19.0 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)
Speech Service (private)
Custom Speech Service (private)
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.11-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.11-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.11-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.11-focal_amd64.deb)
This release adds support for the Azure private service endpoints. The release also fixes processing of the dictation mode employed with on-prem containers.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Jun 8, 2021
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.18.0 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-sr-1.7.10-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.10-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.10-bionic_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.10-focal_amd64.deb)
This release adds support for new minor features.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Feb 12, 2021
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.17.0 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-sr-1.7.9-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Red Hat / CentOS 8 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.9-1.el8.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.9-xenial_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.9-bionic_amd64.deb)
This release provides a few fixes and enhancements to the existing functionality.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Nov 30, 2020
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) 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
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-sr-1.7.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.6-xenial_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.6-bionic_amd64.deb)
This release provides a few fixes and enhancements to the existing functionality.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Oct 23, 2020
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) 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
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-sr-1.7.5-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.5-xenial_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.5-bionic_amd64.deb)
This release adds support for dictation mode and also provides a few fixes and enhancements.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Sep 1, 2020
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) 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
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-sr-1.7.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.4-xenial_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.4-bionic_amd64.deb)
This release adds support for Speech Service containers which can be deployed in a strictly controlled environment.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
May 4, 2020
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) 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
Bing Speech
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.7.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.1-xenial_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.7.1-bionic_amd64.deb)
This release addresses a production issue and allows to customize the way input and instance elements are populated.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Feb 17, 2020
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.12.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.6.0
Microsoft Speech WebSocket Protocol
Libevent 2.1.9
Rapidjson 1.1.0
The plugin supports the following endpoints:
Speech Service
Bing Speech
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.6.6-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.6.6-xenial_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.6.6-bionic_amd64.deb)
This release addresses a few production issues and introduces supplementary features and enhancements to the existing functionality.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Nov 5, 2019
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.11.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.6.0
Microsoft Speech WebSocket Protocol
Libevent 2.1.9
Rapidjson 1.1.0
The plugin supports the following endpoints:
Speech Service
Bing Speech
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.6.5-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.6.5-xenial_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.6.5-bionic_amd64.deb)
This release adds support for HTTP proxy in communication with license servers available as a service. The release also improves log statements and addresses a few production issues.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Aug 30, 2019
Microsoft Azure Speech Recognition (SR) Plugin 1.10.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.6.0
Microsoft Speech WebSocket Protocol
Libevent 2.1.9
Rapidjson 1.1.0
The plugin supports the following endpoints:
Speech Service
Bing Speech
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-azure-sr-1.6.4-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.6.4-xenial_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-azure-sr_1.6.4-bionic_amd64.deb)
This is a release of Microsoft Azure SR plugin, the successor of Microsoft Bing SR plugin. The main purpose of this change is not to use the name Bing, which is associated with the speech service being decommissioned by Microsoft in October, 2019. The Azure plugin derives all the version and revision numbers from the outdated Bing plugin. While there are no functional changes introduced in this release, all the related artifacts, including the plugin name, configuration and status file names, documentation and webpages, have been renamed or replaced to reflect the change.
To facilitate migration of existing UniMRCP server installations from using Bing to Azure plugins, helper shell scripts are provided for Red Hat and Debian-based distributions in the following archive file.
upgrade_from_bing_to_azure.tar.gz
Jul 12, 2019
Microsoft Bing Speech Recognition (BingSR) Plugin 1.9.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.6.0
Microsoft Speech WebSocket Protocol
Libevent 2.1.9
Rapidjson 1.1.0
The plugin supports the following endpoints:
Bing Speech
Speech Service
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-bing-sr-1.6.3-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-bing-sr_1.6.3-xenial_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-bing-sr_1.6.3-bionic_amd64.deb)
This release adds support for custom service endpoints. The release also adds support for vendor-specific parameters.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Apr 19, 2019
Microsoft Bing Speech Recognition (BingSR) Plugin 1.8.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.6.0
Microsoft Speech WebSocket Protocol
Libevent 2.1.9
Rapidjson 1.1.0
The plugin supports the following endpoints:
Bing Speech
Speech Service
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-bing-sr-1.6.2-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-bing-sr_1.6.2-xenial_amd64.deb)
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (unimrcp-bing-sr_1.6.2-bionic_amd64.deb)
This release adds support for HTTP proxy, introduces binaries for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and fixes a few problems.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Jan 29, 2019
Microsoft Bing Speech Recognition (BingSR) Plugin 1.7.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.6.0
Microsoft Speech WebSocket Protocol
Libevent 2.1.8
Rapidjson 1.1.0
The plugin supports the following endpoints:
Bing Speech
Speech Service
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7 (unimrcp-bing-sr-1.6.1-1.el7.x86_64.rpm)
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (unimrcp-bing-sr_1.6.1-xenial_amd64.deb)
This release provides numerous SRGS-related enhancements, primarily intended to address interoperability issues with VoiceXML platforms having a limited ability of referencing built-in grammars. The release also fixes a possible license depletion issue.
Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Oct 25, 2018
Microsoft Bing Speech Recognition (BingSR) Plugin 1.6.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.5.0
Microsoft Speech WebSocket Protocol
Libevent 2.1.8
Rapidjson 1.1.0
The plugin supports the following endpoints:
Bing Speech
Speech Service
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
This release adds support for new regional Speech Service endpoints by retaining the support for the non-regional Bing Speech endpoint. The release also fixes a few minor issues and allows for new alternate ways of specifying recognition language and referencing speech context.
Everyone is encouraged to upgrade and start gradually migrating to the new Speech Service endpoints. While nothing has to be changed in the configuration or subscription data, check out the new data format described in Section 5 of the corresponding Installation Guide.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Aug 10, 2018
Microsoft Bing Speech Recognition (BingSR) Plugin 1.5.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.5.0
Microsoft Speech WebSocket Protocol
Libevent 2.1.8
Rapidjson 1.1.0
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Added support for speech contexts being optionally used as a basic grammar. If the new attribute 'speech-complete' is set to true, then input will complete as soon as an interim result matches one of the phrases specified in the speech context. Each phrase may also be assigned an arbitrary tag to be set as an instance in the returned NLSML results.
Initiate a new turn, if the current one completes with 'InitialSilenceTimeout' or 'BabbleTimeout'. This behavior addresses the issue, when audio data streamed to the service contains noise and no user utterance. In such a case, upon completion of a false turn, the recognition will continue by initiating a new turn.
This release also allows to specify the format of the confidence score returned in the NLSML results via a new configuration parameter 'confidence-format'. By default, the configuration parameter is set to 'auto', which means the format is implicitly determined based on the version of the protocol being used. In order to use the floating point format in the range of 0..1 consistently, the parameter must be set to 'mrcpv2'; and for the integer format in the range of 0.100 - 'mrcpv1'.
There is also a new configuration parameter 'alternatives-below-threshold', which allows to control whether or not to include alternatives with a confidence score below the specified threshold in the returned NLSML results.
Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Jul 25, 2018
Microsoft Bing Speech Recognition (BingSR) Plugin 1.4.0 to the UniMRCP Server (UMS) has been released.
The plugin is based on the following components:
UniMRCP Server 1.5.0
Microsoft Speech WebSocket Protocol
Libevent 2.1.8
Rapidjson 1.1.0
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
This release addresses interoperability with Cisco Unified Customer Voice Portal (CVP).
The release also fixes an issue stopping no-input timer encountered under certain circumstances.
Everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Jun 18, 2018
Microsoft Bing Speech Recognition (BingSR) 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
Microsoft Speech WebSocket Protocol
Libevent 2.1.8
Rapidjson 1.1.0
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
This release adds support for resampling, which allows to transform audio data in incoming RTP stream from 8 kHz to 16 kHz.
Also, when both the speech and DTMF detectors are activated, the DTMF detector remains active until a first interim result of speech transcription becomes available. In order to enable this behavior, the configuration parameter 'start-of-input' must be set to 'service-originated'.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
May 23, 2018
Microsoft Bing Speech Recognition (BingSR) 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
Microsoft Speech WebSocket Protocol
Libevent 2.1.8
Rapidjson 1.1.0
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
This release fixes a specific problem in communication with the license server.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Apr 9, 2018
Microsoft Bing Speech Recognition (BingSR) 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
Microsoft Speech WebSocket Protocol
Libevent 2.1.8
Rapidjson 1.1.0
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
This release adds support for Speech-Incomplete-Timeout and also provides a few minor improvements.
The detailed list of changes introduced in this release follows.
Oct 26, 2017
Microsoft Bing Speech Recognition (BingSR) 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
Microsoft Speech WebSocket Protocol
Libevent 2.1.8
Rapidjson 1.1.0
The binaries are currently available for the following Linux distributions:
Red Hat / CentOS 7
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
The plugin allows IVR platforms to utilize the Microsoft Bing Speech API via MRCP. The connection to the globally accessible service is maintained via WebSockets, which ensures secure, reliable and fast transmission of data over the Internet.
The Bing Speech API provides outstanding recognition quality, having all the major languages supported.