Chant Developer Workbench

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.

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.