Innovative application-ready libraries and components for integrating speech and interactive technologies into software solutions.
Chant, founded in the United States, specializes in application-ready development components and libraries that enable developers and organizations to incorporate advanced speech recognition, synthesis, and voice-enabling technologies into desktop, web-enabled, and telephony applications. Its platform-agnostic libraries are compatible with major development environments such as Visual Studio, RAD Studio, Android Studio, and XCode, supporting a wide range of programming languages and frameworks. By leveraging Chant's expertise, IT professionals and developers can create highly interactive software experiences across Android, iOS, macOS, and Windows, benefitting from dedicated support and a developer-centric focus.
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Chant Audio Search is now included as part of Chant Developer Workbench.
Chant Audio Search is no longer available as a standalone product. It has been integrated into Chant Developer Workbench, a comprehensive suite of tools and class libraries for developing applications with speech and natural user interface capabilities. This change took effect in 2021.
Chant LexiconKit WinCE is no longer available for sale.
Chant LexiconKit WinCE was a Windows CE edition of Chant LexiconKit for mobile and embedded applications. It enabled developers to create, edit, and manage pronunciation lexicons for speech-enabled software, including support for PC2003, Windows Mobile 5, and Windows Mobile 6 devices. It was used with speech technologies such as text-to-speech and speech recognition engines, allowing applications to generate and manage pronunciation markup for words and phrases.
Chant ProfileKit WinCE has been discontinued and is no longer available for sale.
Chant ProfileKit WinCE was a Windows CE edition of Chant ProfileKit for mobile and embedded applications. It provided a programming interface for creating and managing user speech profiles used by speech recognition systems on Windows CE, including Windows Mobile platforms. The toolkit enabled developers to create, select, load, save, and maintain recognition profiles so applications could support multiple users and preserve speech recognition data between sessions. It was intended for integration with speech-enabled software targeting Windows CE devices.
Chant Talk&Listen is now included as part of Chant Developer Workbench.
Chant Talk&Listen, previously available as a standalone component for implementing speech synthesis and recognition with minimal code, is now bundled within Chant Developer Workbench. This integration provides developers with a comprehensive suite of tools for building applications that speak and listen across various platforms. As of April 2025, Chant Inc. has consolidated Talk&Listen into the Developer Workbench package, which includes additional libraries such as Audio Search, GrammarKit, KinesicsKit, LexiconKit, ProfileKit, SpeechKit, SpeechManager, VoiceMarkupKit, and VoiceXMLKit.
Chant VoiceMarkupKit WinCE has been discontinued and is no longer available for sale.
Chant VoiceMarkupKit WinCE was a Windows CE edition of Chant VoiceMarkupKit for mobile and embedded applications. It enabled developers to create, parse, validate, and manipulate VoiceXML (Voice Extensible Markup Language) documents programmatically for use in speech-enabled applications. The toolkit supported development for Windows CE, including Windows Mobile platforms, and provided an application programming interface (API) for working with VoiceXML content used by voice browsers and interactive voice response (IVR) systems.
