Tailor Pronunciations for Maximum Clarity

Feature Summary

The goal of lexicon management is to adjust to the end user manner of speaking for enhanced speech recognition accuracy and speech synthesis quality. With LexiconKit you can:

  • Edit locally installed lexicons.
  • Create and delete lexicon word pronunciations on demand.
  • Export and import lexicon word pronunciations for ensuring maximum recognition accuracy and speech synthesis quality.
  • Add and remove dictation shortcuts.

Chant LexiconKit is comprised of application ready software components that handle the complexities of managing and persisting word pronunciations. This allows your application to enhance the quality of speech recognition and speech synthesis and offer administrative features for maintaining word pronunciations.

Recognizers and synthesizers have their own formats for word pronunciations. LexiconKit supports the following recognizer and synthesizers and their lexicons formats:

Recognizer or SynthesizerSpeech API
Cepstral (all languages)Swift API
Microsoft SAPI 4 (all languages)SAPI 4
Microsoft SAPI 5 (all languages)SAPI 5
Microsoft Speech Platform (all languages)MSP
Nuance Vocalizer Auotmotive (all languages)Vocalizer Auotmotive
Nuance Vocalizer Mobile (all languages)Vocalizer Mobile
Nuance Vocalizer Network (all languages)Vocalizer Network
Nuance VoCon 3200 V2 (all languages)VoCon 3200 V2
Nuance VoCon 3200 V3 (all languages)VoCon 3200 V3
Nuance VoCon 3200 V4 (all languages)VoCon 3200 V4

Within Chant Developer Workbench interactive environment, you can:

  • Create and edit lexicon using XML
  • Create and edit Vocalizer and VoCon user dictionary text file (.dct)
  • Generate word pronunciation phonemes
  • Edit word pronunciation phonemes
  • Import and export lexicon word pronunciations to binary (.dat) or self-extracting file (.exe)
  • Compile and persist Vocalizer and VoCon user dictionary to binary file (.dcb, .dcc)

Lexicon Editing

Lexicon Editing: Edit word pronunciations faster using XML with built-in intelliprompt that suggest valid syntax.

Pronunciation Editing

Pronunciation Editing: Use the phoneme selection dialog to list the phonemes by speech engine and select them for editing pronunciations.

Pronunciation Generation

Pronunciation Generation: Use the Add Words dialog to generate word pronunciation entries with default pronunciations.

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