Chant LexiconKit

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.

Now you can easily tailor word pronunciations within your applications using LexiconKit from Chant. This component library simplifies the process of managing word pronunciations for Swift API (Cepstral), SAPI 4, SAPI 5, Nuance Vocalizer and VoCon 3200 lexicon formats to use with your favorite speech recognizers and synthesizers.

Chant LexiconKit is comprised of software components that handle the complexities of managing and persisting word pronunciations. This allows your application to enhance the quality of speech recognition and speech synthesis and offer administrative features for maintaining word pronunciations.

LexiconKit includes ActiveX, C++, C++Builder, Delphi, Java, .NET Framework, Silverlight, and Web component library formats to support all your programming languages and provides sample projects for popular IDEs.

The goal of lexicon management is to adjust to the end user manner of speaking for enhanced speech recognition accuracy and speech synthesis quality. With LexiconKit your applications can:

• Edit locally installed lexicons.
• Create and delete lexicon word pronunciations on demand.
• Export and import lexicon word pronunciations for ensuring maximum recognition accuracy and speech synthesis quality.
• Add and remove dictation shortcuts.

Interactive Environment

Within Chant Developer Workbench interactive environment, you can:

• Create and edit lexicon using XML
• Create and edit Vocalizer and VoCon user dictionary text file (.dct)
• Generate word pronunciation phonemes
• Edit word pronunciation phonemes
• Import and export lexicon word pronunciations to binary (.dat) or self-extracting file (.exe)
• Compile and persist Vocalizer and VoCon user dictionary to binary file (.dcb, .dcc)