Chant supports latest Microsoft Speech Platform

Chant Developer Workbench is comprised of essential tools and components for developing software that speaks and listens. As an interactive toolset, it provides a development and testing environment for working with the component libraries and the speech technology objects they manage. You can manage grammars, profiles, lexicons, recognizers, synthesizers and text-to-speech markup interactively within the application software you develop and deploy.

Updates in 2011 (Build 4.0.8.0)

• Enumerate and select Microsoft Speech Platform v10.0, v10.1, v10.2 or v11.0 recognizers and voices without binding applications to a specific version
• Enumerate and select other speech technologies in the same application
• Develop applications in a variety of programming languages and environments such as C++, C++Builder, Delphi, Java, JavaScript, .NET Web Forms, .NET WPF, and Silverlight
• Build and deploy 32-bit and 64-bit multilingual applications
• Leverage the comprehensive Chant Developer Workbench interactive development environment for designing and testing speech recognition grammars, building and packaging pronunciation lexicons and creating and testing SSML

About Chant

Chant is a provider of software and services that help organizations gain competitive advantage using speech technology. They are focused on providing solutions that enable you to do more with your computer by talking with it. Chant was one of the first companies to provide engine-independent components for developing desktop, Web-enabled and telephony applications that use speech technology.