• 1. Overview
• 2. Requirements
• 3. Build
• GNU Build (Linux and other Unix variants)
• VS2005 Build (Windows XP, Vista, ...)
• 4. Configuration

1. Overview

This guide describes how to use Cepstral Swift TTS with UniMRCP server. It assumes you are already familiar with installation and configuration tips of UniMRCP server. UniMRCP server provides plugin interface to integrate 3-rd party TTS and ASR engines. Plugin called mrcpcepstral implements the MRCP resource engine interface using Cepstral Swift TTS engine.

2. Requirements

Cepstral Swift SDK and Voices must be installed first. http://support.cepstral.com/

3. Build

GNU Build (Linux and other Unix variants)

Configure option

To explicitly specify where to look for the Cepstral Swift library use the "--with-swift=" option:

$ ./configure --with-swift=/opt/swift

VS2005 Build (Windows XP, Vista, ...)

One-time pre-build preparation

• To specify where to look for the Swift library use cepstral.vsprops located in build/vsprops:

       <UserMacro
           Name="CepstralSDKDir"
           Value="C:\Program Files\Cepstral\sdk"
       />

Open unimrcp.sln solution file, enable mrcpcepstral project from Build -> Configuration Menu and build the solution. Make sure swift.dll is in the execution path of unimrcpserver in case mrcpcepstral.dll failed to load on start-up.

4. Configuration

Specify mrcpcepstral as a plugin in unimrcpserver.xml as follows:

    <plugin>
      <engine name="Cepstral-Swift-1" class="mrcpcepstral" enable="1"/>
    </plugin>