Develop Cepstral-enabled Applications Faster

Integrate Cepstral voices faster with Chant tools and components. Have your applications talking with Cepstral voices in a matter of minutes. It’s that easy.

Or, if you prefer, have Chant provide you the code to drop into your applications and have them talking with little or no effort on your part at all.

Chant application-ready components simplify using Cepstral voices with either the Microsoft SAPI 5 SDK or Cepstral SDK.

The benefit of using the native Cepstral Swift API when synthesizing is that it eliminates additional SAPI 5 processing and allows your applications to take full advantage of Cepstral features not supported in SAPI. Your applications can also take advantage of Chant features not implemented in either SDK such as:

• Control synthesis requests with built-in queue manger.
• Synthesize from a variety text data input formats and generate audio data in a variety of output formats.
• Generate W3C SSML (Speech Synthesis Markup Language) for enhancing speech synthesis.
• Generate and edit word pronunciations for enhancing synthesis clarity.
• Select and adjust synthesizer and audio options and property settings dynamically.
• Integrate with almost any application type, architecture, programming language, and development environment used for Windows and WinCE platforms.

Tailor Cepstral Pronunciations for Maximum Clarity with LexiconKit

Now you can easily tailor word pronunciations to deploy with your application and directly from within your applications using LexiconKit 2 from Chant. Your applications can:

• Edit locally installed Cepstral lexicons.
• Create and delete lexicon word pronunciations on demand.
• Export and import lexicon word pronunciations for achieving maximum speech synthesis quality.

With LexiconKit in the Chant Developer Workbench interactive environment, you can:

• Edit locally Cepstral installed lexicons.
• Create and delete lexicon word pronunciations on demand.
• Export and import lexicon word pronunciations for ensuring maximum speech synthesis quality.

» Learn more about LexiconKit

Integrate Cepstral Voices Faster with SpeechKit

You can easily manage Cepstral voices within your applications using SpeechKit 5 from Chant. Your applications can:

• 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.

With SpeechKit in the Chant Developer Workbench interactive environment, you can:

• Enumerate audio devices and voice for selection and command line testing of audio- and synthesizer-specific features.
• Trace audio and synthesis events.
• Support SSML playback (requires VoiceMarkupKit).

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Fine-tune Cepstral Speech Synthesis with VoiceMarkupKit

Now you can easily markup text-to-speech within your applications using VoiceMarkupKit 2 from Chant. Your applications can:

• Generate markup language in W3C SSML syntax.
• Generate pronunciation phonemes for Cepstral voices.
• Dynamically switch among speech APIs and syntax formats.

With VoiceMarkupKit in the Chant Developer Workbench interactive environment, you can:

• Create and edit documents with SSML.
• Generate SSML.
• Generate word pronunciation phonemes.
• Edit word pronunciation phonemes (requires LexiconKit).
• Playback text with SSML (requires SpeechKit).

» Learn more about VoiceMarkupKit