Chant SpeechKit includes components for managing speech recognition and synthesis. Whether you develop desktop, server, mobile, telephony, Internet software, or web pages, SpeechKit components can transform text to speech for audio playback and speech to text for your software to process. This liberates your software from keypads, keyboards, etc.. as primary input devices by letting end users talk with it.

With Chant SpeechKit WinCE Edition, you can:

• Voice-enable any type of WinCE application with SpeechKit components in ActiveX, C-DLL, and .NET Framework (CF2) formats.
• Develop and deploy your applications independent of specific recognizers and synthesizers:SpeechKit WinCE Developer Edition supports Microsoft SAPI 5 compliant, and Nuance VoCon 3200 recognizers; and SpeechKit WinCE Developer Edition supports Cepstral, Microsoft SAPI 5 compliant, Nuance RealSpeak Solo, and Nuance Vocalizer synthesizers.
• Select and adjust recognizer, synthesizer, and audio options and property settings dynamically.
• Leverage a common persistence framework across programming languages and component formats.

Develop Applications that Speak

• Synthesize speech from anywhere within your application
• Automatically synthesize message box text
• Easily enumerate and select a voice
• Easily adjust the spoken output speed, volume, and pitch
• Take advantage of built-in audio management and synthesize to the audio format needed by your application
• Synthesize text from strings, buffers, streams, and files
• Playback audio or write to buffers, streams, and files
• Access detailed synthesis result attributes and properties
• Persist property settings across executions
• Process requests synchronously or asynchronously with built-in queue manager

Develop Applications that Listen

• Capture spoken input as if it was typed using a keyboard
• Select menus, list items, and click buttons by speaking instead of using a mouse
• Simulate keyboard input and mouse clicks
• Recognize spoken languages supported by recognizers
• Access detailed recognition result attributes and properties
• Playback recorded audio associated with recognition results
• Manage context-free recognition by dynamically adding, removing, enabling, and disabling, command and grammar vocabularies
• Take advantage of built-in audio management and recognize from the audio format needed by your application
• Recognize from buffers, files, microphone (live), and stream audio sources
• Write audio to buffers, streams, and files.
• Persist property settings across executions.
• Process requests synchronously or asynchronously with built-in queue manager.