Speech and SAPI / Visual C++ 2008 (Tools & Libraries)

Comprehensive development and testing environment for working with speech technology. Chant Developer Workbench includes GrammarKit, LexiconKit, ProfileKit, SpeechKit and VoiceMarkupKit Win64, Win32, and WinCE that will allow you to easily manage grammars, profiles, lexicons, recognizers, synthesizers, and text-to-speech markup to your applications. Chant Developer Workbench features a Multi-document, interactive, customizable environment with color-coded formatting, IntelliPrompt, Command line testing, Event tracing and many more advanced features.

Add speech recognition grammars to your applications. Chant GrammarKit enables you to develop grammars for high-performance speech recognition. Context-free grammar recognition enables your applications to capture data very efficiently. Grammars also enable your applications to assert domain constraints to elevate data capture accuracy automatically. Chant GrammarKit simplifies the process of managing grammars declared with IBM SRCL (IBM ViaVoice), Microsoft SAPI 4 Grammar Text File, Microsoft SAPI 5 XML Grammar, or Nuance BNF+ (VoCon 3200), Java Speech Grammar Format (JSGF), W3C ABNF, and W3C XML grammar syntax to use with your favorite speech recognizer.

Tailor pronunciations for maximum clarity. Chant LexiconKit enables you to edit locally installed lexicons (Cepstral, SAPI 4, SAPI 5, Nuance Vocalizer and VoCon 3200), create and delete lexicon word pronunciations on demand, export and import lexicon word pronunciations for ensuring maximum recognition accuracy and speech synthesis quality and more.

Maximize speech recognition accuracy. Chant ProfileKit is comprised of software components that handle the complexities of managing and persisting speaker profiles. This allows your application to enhance the quality of speech recognition and offer administrative features for maintaining speaker profiles. Chant ProfileKit simplifies the process of managing profiles for Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking, IBM ViaVoice, Microsoft SAPI 4, Microsoft SAPI 5 and Nuance VoCon recognizers. You can backup and restore, activate, create, delete, and train profiles as needed within your application to adapt to the end user.

Develop software that speaks and listens. Chant SpeechKit components allow you to rapidly integrate speech technology and deploy speech-aware applications and Web sites using your favorite RAD development environment. Chant SpeechKit is comprised of components for speech recognition (i.e., speech-to-text) and speech synthesis (i.e., text-to-speech). Chant SpeechKit allows users to verbally fill out forms, query databases, navigate applications and more, while also performing text-to-speech so the application can communicate with the user without requiring them to read what is on the screen.

Fine-tune speech synthesis with text-to-speech markup. Chant VoiceMarkupKit is comprised of software components that handle the complexities of generating text-to-speech markup for various markup syntax. Adjusting the speed, adding pauses, injecting emphasis, and switching voices can break up the monotony of synthesized speech. Chant VoiceMarkupKit simplifies the process of generating Nuance L&H Native Control Sequence, SAPI 4, SAPI 5, and W3C SSML markup language to use with your favorite speech synthesizers.

Easily build speech and telephony .NET applications. Velocity is a rapid application development toolkit that enables Microsoft .NET developers to create feature-rich telephony and speech solutions. Velocity eliminates the need to learn low level telephony API’s and protocols. The high-level Velocity API means developers can get on with the job of building their applications without the need to worry about the underlying telephony hardware and media processing layers. Supporting the Dialogic family of telephony boards and media processing software, Velocity enables the creation of Interactive Voice Response (IVR), Speech and IP enabled communications solutions that scale from as little as two voice channels to several hundred on a single server platform. Even if currently you have no telephony hardware or phone lines you can start developing today with Velocity's built in softphone.