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Chant Developer Workbench by Chant

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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.

Within the Chant Developer Workbench interactive environment, you can:

Manage grammars with GrammarKit:

Create and edit grammars in native grammar syntax

Generate word pronunciation phonemes

Compile and debug grammars

Test grammars with live and recorded audio, and text simulation (requires SpeechKit)

Manage lexicons with LexiconKit:

Create and edit lexicon using XML

Generate word pronunciation phonemes

Edit word pronunciation phonemes

Import and export lexicon word pronunciations

Add and remove dictation shortcuts

Manage speaker profiles with ProfileKit:

Create and delete speaker profiles

Enumerate speaker profiles for selection and command line testing

Invoke speaker training

Import and export speaker profiles

Manage speech engines with SpeechKit:

Enumerate audio devices and speech engines for selection and command line testing of audio-, recognizer-, and synthesizer-specific features

Trace recognition and synthesis events

Support grammar activation and testing (requires GrammarKit)

Support TTS markup playback (requires VoiceMarkupKit)

Manage TTS markup with VoiceMarkupKit:

Create and edit documents with TTS markup

Generate TTS markup

Generate word pronunciation phonemes

Edit word pronunciation phonemes (requires LexiconKit)

Playback text with TTS markup (requires SpeechKit)

Chant Developer Workbench provides a comprehensive development and testing environment for working with speech technology that features:

Multi-document, interactive, customizable environment

Powerful editor with color-coded formatting, IntelliPrompt, optional outlining, optional line numbers, undo-redo, word wrap, and find/replace

Command line testing

Event tracing

The tabbed-document interface provides for fast switching among multiple speech objects. The editing environment is designed to accelerate speech technology grammar and markup development with built-in syntax checking and prompting. The multi-docked Toolbars can be easily customized to display the facilities most often used. Window layout and toolbar settings are persisted across interactive environment executions.

What’s new in Chant Developer Workbench 2011 (Build 4.0.6.0)?

Supports Silverlight 5 - Integrate speech technology with in-browser and out-of-browser 32bit and 64bit applications.

What’s new in Chant Developer Workbench 2011?

L&H BNF Grammar Editors – Easily create, edit, compile, and test L&H BNF version-specific grammars (V1.0, V1.1, and V2.0).

W3C ABNF Grammar Editor – Easily create, edit, compile, and test W3C ABNF grammars.

W3C XML Grammar Editor – Easily create, edit, compile, and test W3C XML grammars.

JSGF Grammar Editor – Easily create, edit, compile, and test JSGF grammars.

Grammar Compiler Options – VoCon grammar compiler options can be selected from the speech toolbar in the grammar editor before compiling.

Speech Recognition Context Editor– Easily create, edit, compile, and test multi-grammar contexts. This enables you to test application recognition states without having to write any code.

VoCon 3200 V4 – Test with the latest version of VoCon 3200 V4 within the Interactive Environment.

WinCE Chant Developer Workbench – Now you can test speech resources with the new WinCE Chant Developer Workbench interactive environment.

What’s new in GrammarKit 4?

L&H BNF Grammars – Dynamically generate and compile L&H BNF version-specific grammars (V1.0, V1.1, and V2.0).

W3C ABNF Grammars – Dynamically generate and compile W3C ABNF grammars.

W3C XML Grammars – Dynamically generate and compile W3C XML grammars.

JSGF Grammars – Dynamically generate and compile Java Speech Grammar Format (JSGF) grammars.

Grammar Compiler Options – Specify VoCon grammar compiler options.

Speech Recognition Context – Dynamically generate and compile multi-grammar contexts

.NET V4 component libraries – Target .NET Framework 4 applications with .NET 4 Chant component libraries.

Silverlight component libraries – Develop Silverlight applications that manage grammars.

C++Builder class library – Develop C++Builder applications that manage grammars without binding to release-specific VCL binaries.

Delphi class library – Develop Delphi applications that manage grammars without binding to release-specific VCL binaries.

VoCon 3200 V4 – Develop VoCon 3200 V4 applications that manage grammars.

WinCE Web component library – Develop mobile web apps that manage grammars.

WinCE Grammar Editing and Testing– Easily edit and test grammars with the new WinCE Chant Developer Workbench interactive environment.

What’s new in LexiconKit 4?

Dictation Shortcuts – Manage SAPI dictation shortcuts within your applications. .NET V4 libraries.

.NET V4 component libraries – Target .NET Framework 4 applications with .NET 4 Chant component libraries.

Silverlight component libraries – Develop Silverlight applications that manage lexicons.

C++Builder class library – Develop C++Builder applications that manage lexicons without binding to release-specific VCL binaries.

Delphi class library – Develop Delphi applications that manage lexicons without binding to release-specific VCL binaries.

VoCon 3200 V4 – Develop VoCon 3200 V4 applications that manage lexicons.

WinCE Web component library – Develop mobile web apps that manage lexicons.

WinCE Lexicon Editing– Easily edit lexicons with the new WinCE Chant Developer Workbench interactive environment.

What’s new in ProfileKit 4?

Import Training Documents – Improve recognition accuracy for dictating uncommon words or uncommon word groupings by setting the profile adaptation data.

.NET V4 component libraries – Target .NET Framework 4 applications with .NET 4 Chant component libraries.

Silverlight component libraries – Develop Silverlight applications that manage profiles.

C++Builder class library – Develop C++Builder applications that manage profiles without binding to release-specific VCL binaries.

Delphi class library – Develop Delphi applications that manage profiles without binding to release-specific VCL binaries.

VoCon 3200 V4 – Develop VoCon 3200 V4 applications that manage profiles.

WinCE Web component library – Develop mobile web apps that manage profiles.

WinCE Profile Training – Easily test training profiles with the new WinCE Chant Developer Workbench interactive environment.

What’s new in SpeechKit 7?

SAPI Grammar Rules and Phrase Properties– Enumerate rules and phrase properties on recognition results.

Recognition Result Confidence - Obtain the recognition result confidence by enumerating ChantWord, ChantRule, or ChantPhraseProperty objects.

1-Shot (2-pass) Recognition – Recognize with grammars compiled for 1-Shot (2-pass) recognition.

SetMicOn as Master Switch – Optimize multi-grammar enablement by using SetMicOn to turn the microphone off before enabling one or more grammars, then turn the microphone on to enable them.

L&H BNF Grammars – Recognize speech with L&H BNF version-specific grammars (V1.0, V1.1, and V2.0).

W3C ABNF Grammars – Recognize speech with W3C ABNF grammars.

W3C XML Grammars – Recognize speech with W3C XML grammars.

JSGF Grammars– Recognize speech with JSGF grammars.

Grammar Compiler Options – Specify the VoCon Compiler option when recognizing with grammars.

.NET V4 component libraries – Target .NET Framework 4 applications with .NET 4 Chant component libraries.

Silverlight component libraries – Develop Silverlight applications that speak and listen.

C++Builder class library – Develop C++Builder applications that speak and listen without binding to release-specific VCL binaries.

Delphi class library – Develop Delphi applications that speak and listen without binding to release-specific VCL binaries.

VoCon 3200 V4 – Develop VoCon 3200 V4 applications that speak and listen.

WinCE Web component library – Develop mobile web apps that speak and listen.

WinCE Recognition and TTS Testing– Easily test training profiles with the new WinCE Chant Developer Workbench interactive environment.

What’s new in VoiceMarkupKit 4?

.NET V4 component libraries – Target .NET Framework 4 applications with .NET 4 Chant component libraries.

Silverlight component libraries – Develop Silverlight applications that manage markup.

C++Builder class library – Develop C++Builder applications that manage markup without binding to release-specific VCL binaries.

Delphi class library – Develop Delphi applications that manage markup without binding to release-specific VCL binaries.

WinCE Web component library – Develop mobile web apps that manage markup.

WinCE Markup Editing and Testing– Easily test markup with the new WinCE Chant Developer Workbench interactive environment.

Comprehensive development and testing environment for working with speech technology.

Pricing: Chant Developer Workbench 2011 1 Developer License

Evals & Downloads: Read the Chant Developer Workbench help file, Download the Chant Developer Workbench 2011 evaluation onto your computer - Expires after 30 days

Operating System for Deployment: Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP

Architecture of Product: 32Bit, 64Bit

Product Type: Component, Add-In, Application

Component Type: .NET WinForms, .NET Class, Silverlight, .NET Compact Framework, 100% Managed Code, ActiveX OCX, DLL, VCL, VC++ Class Library, Java Class, JavaScript

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 2010, Microsoft Visual Basic 2008, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 2010, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C# 2010, Microsoft Visual C# 2008, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003, Embarcadero RAD Studio XE2, Embarcadero RAD Studio XE, Embarcadero RAD Studio 2010, C++Builder XE2, C++Builder XE, C++Builder 2010, C++Builder 2009, Delphi XE2, Delphi XE, Delphi 2010, Delphi 2009, Delphi 2007 for Win32, JBuilder 2008, Sybase PowerBuilder 11.0, Visual Café 4.0, .NET Framework 4.0, .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.0, .NET Framework 2.0, Eclipse V3.5, Silverlight 5, Silverlight 4

Product Class: Component Development Tools

Keywords: Chant Developer Workbench 2008, Chant CDW, Chant Developer Workbench

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Part numbers: PC-514166-431831 514166-431831

Mfr. Part No: 79520203040