Rime API Changelog
2025-10-15
- Arcana is now available via (non-json) websockets users.rime.ai/ws.
2025-10-14
- Arcana on-prem images with tag
20251014: Fixed a bug related to sample rate.
2025-10-13
- Arcana on-prem images with tag
20251013: Arabic support. - Arcana on-prem images with tag
20251013: General performance improvements.
2025-10-10
- Api on-prem image with tag
20251010: Uses https instead of http in the external calls to rime.optimize.ai to acquire licenses and track usage. - ⚠️ When upgrading to this image you may have to update your firewall settings to account for the new URLs (see docs).
⚠️ 2025-09-30
- We have made breaking changes in voice details api (https://users.rime.ai/data/voices/voice_details.json)
- In the voice details API, the field
model_idhas been renamed tomodelIdandnamehave been renamed tospeakerfor better clarity. - In the voice details API, the field
regionhas been renamed todialectfor better clarity. - The
languagefield value has been changed from short codes (e.g.,eng) to human-readable names (e.g.,english). - A new field
langhas been added to retain the short language code (e.g.,eng).
2025-09-29
- Arcana on-prem images with tag
20250929: quality improvements.
2025-09-27
- Arcana on-prem images with tag
20250927: quality improvements.
2025-09-25
- Arcana on-prem English image with tag
20250925: performance improvements and general model stability enhancements. - Added two new Australian flagship voices:
eucalyptusmarlu
2025-09-24
- Arcana on-prem images with tag
20250924: performance improvements.
2025-09-17
New api onprem image
us-docker.pkg.dev/rime-labs/api/service:20250917 released.- api image now supports multiple model backends.
- /health endpoint on the api image now reports model status.
2025-09-13
- Both
/wsand/ws2support the query paramsaveOovs, allowing tts users to track which words in their text are out-of-vocabulary on the Speech QA dashboard.
2025-09-13
- Arcana on-prem images from
20250913now provide better latency and can run on H100 MIG (3g.40gb).
2025-09-09
- Arcana on-prem images from
20250909now provide/livezand/readyzendpoints for liveness and readiness checks.
2025-09-08
- Arcana on-prem images from
20250908now use 16-bit little endian for PCM and WAV. - Arcana on-prem images from
20250908now support G-711 μ-law as an audio codec. - Arcana on-prem images from
20250908now support thespeedAlphaoption for time scaling.
2025-09-02
saveOovsparameter added to all mistv2 tts endpoints, enabling users to have out-of-vocabulary words logged to their Speech QA dashboard for review and addition to the mist lexicon.
2025-08-01
- Added French and German language support via the
langparameter in WebSocket JSON APIs. The/ws2api now has full language parity with the/wsand http tts endpoints.
2025-07-31
- Added Spanish language support via the
lang: spaparameter in WebSocket JSON APIs. - Enhanced text segmentation with new
segmentparameter:- Added
segmentquery parameter with three modes: “immediate”, “never”, and “bySentence” (default) - Deprecated
immediateboolean parameter (still supported for backward compatibility) - Improved control over text processing and synthesis timing
- Added
2025-05-27
- The
<FLUSH>command is now available on both the the websockets and websockets-json apis, allowing for immediate audio synthesis of all tokens in the buffer.
2025-04-24
- We’ve launched Arcana — a new model for expressive, natural voice synthesis. Available now with
modelId: arcana.
2025-03-28
- The
langIDspa-mxhas been added. Using this accesses the same spanish languages but usespesosinstead ofdolaresfor currency. - New
lang: frahas been added. We now have French voices available on the dashboard and via API.
2025-03-26
- The
spell()function now works for Spanish. Try it out! “El nombre se escribe spell(Isabella).” - Fixed a bug where silence information is not processed properly when
pauseBetweenBracketsis True - The url
demo-api.rime.aihas been deprecated. Please usedemo.rime.aiinstead if you are using the demo API.

