Chant Developer Workbench 2021 (8.0.0.0)

Gain development productivity and runtime efficiency

• Learn by Example - See how easy it is to develop software that speaks, listens and detects movement with example apps. Simply compile and run sample apps using your favorite IDE and programming language.
• Direct Speech Recognition Requests - You can now recognize speech directly bypassing vocabulary management and queue processing. StartRecognition method enables continuous speech recognition if no vocabularies are enabled and the Transcribe method directly passes requests to a recognizer and no longer adds requests to a queue.
• Speech Recognition Context Management - You can now manage speech recognition context directly with vocabulary management methods. Simply enable and disable vocabularies (i.e. command, grammar, dictation) before starting the speech recognizer.
• Direct Speech Synthesis Requests - You can now synthesize text to speech directly bypassing queue processing. Speak methods directly pass requests to synthesizer and no longer add requests to a queue (i.e., real-time or batch).
• Speech Recognizer Browser - You can now design and test speech recognition apps using the Speech Recognizer Browser. Simply select a speech recognizer, define vocabularies to use for testing speech recognition, and analyze output and event results.
• Speech Synthesizer Browser - You can now design and test speech synthesis apps using the Speech Synthesis Browser. Simply select a speech synthesizer, enter text to synthesize and analyze output and event results.

Optimize application builds with specific SDKs

• Version-specific API Support - You can now deploy apps with version-specific API support. Simply include a version-specific Chant API library with applications when deploying.
• Acapela SDK for Speech Synthesis - Simply instantiate an Acapela TTS API object to edit phonemes, synthesize text and generate Acapela TTS Tags.
• Cepstral SDK for Speech Synthesis - Simply instantiate a Cepstral API object to generate phonemes, synthesize text and generate SSML.
• CereProc SDK for Speech Synthesis - Simply instantiate a CereProc API object to synthesize text and generate SSML.
• Microsoft SDKs for Speech Recognition, Speech Synthesis and Natural User Interface - Simply instantiate a Microsoft API object to manage grammars, detect movement, manage lexicons, manage profiles, recognize speech, synthesize text, generate SSML and develop and test VoiceXML.
• Microsoft Windows Media for Speech Recognition and Speech Synthesis - Simply instantiate a Windows Media API object to manage grammars, recognize speech and synthesize text.