Chant Developer Workbench 2015 released

Chant Developer Workbench is comprised of essential tools and class libraries for developing software that speaks, listens, and interacts with users. It provides an IDE for developing and interactively testing speech and natural user interface technologies. You can manage conversations, grammars, movement, profiles, lexicons, speech, and text-to-speech markup directly within the application software you develop and deploy.

Updates in 2015

• Kinect for Xbox One Sensor - Track movement with Kinect for Xbox One sensors. Simply install the sensor with the Kinect Adapter for Windows, install the Kinect for Windows SDK 2.0, and code with the KinesicsKit 3 class library for rendering color, depth, and body data in Windows applications.
• Localized UI - Select from 17 language choices for the Chant Developer Workbench IDE UI. Simply select the language choice under International Settings and restart the Chant Developer Workbench IDE.
• Sample Projects - Develop applications with the latest IDEs: Visual Studio 2015, RAD Studio XE8, Appmethod, and JDK (Eclipse, NetBeans, et. al.). Explore the new sample projects and IDE support for rapid application development.
• Dragon NaturallySpeaking - Develop speech recognition applications using Dragon NaturallySpeaking V13. Simply select the Dragon engine or API and enable command and dictation vocabularies as needed.
• Batch Queues - Develop high-volume transcription and synthesis applications. Simply use the SpeechToText and TextToSpeech methods to process speech with the multi-tasking batch queue manager.
• Developer Workbench IDE - Easily design, edit and test grammars, markup, and voiceXML. Take advantage of modern UI, advanced syntax editors, and resource browsers.
• Develop applications that speak with Acapela Telecom Server and Mobile, Cepstral Telephony 6, CereProc CereVoice and Nuance Vocalizer Expressive. Simply set the API properties to initialize the runtime before synthesizing.

About Chant

Chant is a provider of software and services that help organizations gain competitive advantage using speech technology. They are focused on providing solutions that enable you to do more with your computer by talking with it. Chant was one of the first companies to provide engine-independent components for developing desktop, Web-enabled and telephony applications that use speech technology.