Develop Software that Speaks and Listens

Feature Summary

Chant Developer Workbench is comprised of essential tools and components for developing software that speaks and listens. As an interactive toolset, it provides a development and testing environment for working with the component libraries and the speech technology objects they manage. You can manage grammars, profiles, lexicons, recognizers, synthesizers, and text-to-speech markup interactively and directly within application software you develop and deploy.

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Within the Chant Developer Workbench interactive environment, you can:

Manage grammars with GrammarKit:
- Create and edit grammars in native grammar syntax
- Generate word pronunciation phonemes
- Compile and debug grammars
- Test grammars with live and recorded audio, and text simulation (requires SpeechKit)
Manage lexicons with LexiconKit:
- Create and edit lexicon using XML
- Generate word pronunciation phonemes
- Edit word pronunciation phonemes
- Import and export lexicon word pronunciations
- Add and remove dictation shortcuts
Manage speaker profiles with ProfileKit:
- Create and delete speaker profiles
- Enumerate speaker profiles for selection and command line testing
- Invoke speaker training
- Import and export speaker profiles
Manage speech engines with SpeechKit:
- Enumerate audio devices and speech engines for selection and command line testing of audio-, recognizer-, and synthesizer-specific features
- Trace audio, recognition, and synthesis events
- Support grammar activation and testing (requires GrammarKit)
- Support TTS markup playback (requires VoiceMarkupKit)
Manage TTS markup with VoiceMarkupKit:
- Create and edit documents with TTS markup
- Generate TTS markup
- Generate word pronunciation phonemes
- Edit word pronunciation phonemes (requires LexiconKit)
- Playback text with TTS markup (requires SpeechKit)