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Chant SpeechKit by Chant

URLs: speechkit, chant-net, chant net, chantnet

Develop software that speaks and listens. Chant SpeechKit components allow you to rapidly integrate speech technology and deploy speech-aware applications and Web sites using your favorite RAD development environment. Chant SpeechKit is comprised of components for speech recognition (i.e., speech-to-text) and speech synthesis (i.e., text-to-speech). Chant SpeechKit allows users to verbally fill out forms, query databases, navigate applications and more, while also performing text-to-speech so the application can communicate with the user without requiring them to read what is on the screen.

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 component software, you can:

Voice-enable any type of Win32, Win64, and WinCE application with SpeechKit components in ActiveX, C++Builder, C++, Delphi, Java, .NET Framework, Silverlight, and Web formats.

Develop and deploy your applications independent of specific recognizers:

Nuance Dragon NaturallySpeaking,

IBM SMAPI (ViaVoice),

Microsoft SAPI 4, SAPI 5, and

Nuance VoCon 3200.

Develop and deploy your applications independent of specific synthesizers:

Acapela BabTTS,

Cepstral Swift,

Microsoft SAPI 4, and SAPI 5

Nuance RealSpeak Solo, and

Nuance Vocalizer.

Select and adjust recognizer, synthesizer, and audio options and property settings dynamically.

Leverage a common persistence framework across programming languages and component formats.

Support Unicode and ANSI systems with single component library.

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, click buttons, and click hypertext links by speaking instead of using a mouse

Simulate keyboard input and mouse clicks

Recognize spoken languages supported by recognizers

Leverage common dictation text formatting across speech APIs

Access detailed recognition result attributes and properties

Correct recognition results

Playback recorded audio associated with recognition results

Manage context-based and context-free recognition by dynamically adding, removing, enabling, and disabling, command, grammar, and dictation 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.

Use built-in What Can I Say dialog to display what commands your application responds to and Where Can I Go dialog to display hypertext links that can be invoked by speaking the link text

Interactive Environment

Within Chant Developer Workbench interactive environment, you can:

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

Trace recognition and synthesis events

Support grammar activation and testing (requires GrammarKit)

Support TTS markup playback (requires VoiceMarkupKit)

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.

Develop software that speaks and listens.

Pricing: Chant SpeechKit 7 1 Developer License

Evals & Downloads: Read the Chant Developer Workbench help file, Read the SpeechKit License Agreement, 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

Component Type: .NET WinForms, .NET Class, Silverlight, .NET Compact Framework, 100% Managed Code, ActiveX OCX, ActiveX DLL, 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 .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft Visual Studio 97, Microsoft Visual Basic 2010, Microsoft Visual Basic 2008, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual Basic .NET, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 2010, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET, Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0, Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0, Microsoft Visual C# 2010, Microsoft Visual C# 2008, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, Microsoft Visual C# .NET 2003, Microsoft Visual C# .NET, Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0, Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0, Microsoft ActiveX Control Pad, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0, C++Builder 2006, C++Builder 6, C++Builder 5, Delphi 2007 for Win32, Delphi 2006 (10.0), Delphi 2005 (9.0), Delphi 8.0, Delphi 7.0, Delphi 6.0, Delphi 5.0, C#Builder, JBuilder 8, JBuilder 7, JBuilder 6, JBuilder 5, Sybase PowerBuilder 9.0, Sybase PowerBuilder 8.0, Sybase PowerBuilder 7.0, Visual Café 4.0, Visual Café 3.0, NetBeans IDE 3.x, Sun Java Workshop, Sun Forte V2.0 for Java, Sun ONE Studio 4 (Formerly FORTE for Java), Sun ONE Studio 5 (Formerly FORTE Compiler Collection), .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: Business Components

Keywords: Chant SpeechKit, SpeechKit

Chant

Speech Voice Talk Text-To-Speech Speech-To-Text SAPI SMAPI

Part numbers: PC-510465-390584 510465-390584

Mfr. Part No: 79520202070