Speech Options

You can talk with this web site if you like. Please review the system requirements below. You will see the following options for tailoring how you want to talk with the site:

Text-to-Speech Options

• AutoSpeak - Automatically speaks all text on the page when the page loads.
• Change Voice - Change the speaking voice if more than one is available on your system.
• Mute On - Select to mute audio.
• Mute Off - Select to hear audio.

Speech Recognition Options

• AutoListen - Navigate the site by speaking the hypertext links.
• Change Recognizer - Change the speech recognizer if more than one is available on your system.
• Microphone On - Select to enable the microphone and start recognizing.
• Microphone Off - Select to disable the microphone and stop recognizing.

Contact Chant support if you need assistance.

System Requirements

This web site uses SpeechKit 6 components so you can talk with the web pages.

To take advantage of these features, you need the following:

• Intel processor or equivalent,
• Windows 7/Vista/XP,
• Sound card (Full-duplex sound card from the PC 99 list recommended),
• Microsoft SAPI 4, SAPI 5, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Professional Edition, IBM ViaVoice, or Nuance VoCon 3200,
• Microsoft SAPI 4, SAPI 5 compliant synthesizers, Acapela, Cepstral, or Nuance RealSpeak Solo and Vocalizer voices,
• Microphone for speech recognition, and
• Microsoft Internet Explorer.

If you do not have a speech recognizer and/or synthesizer installed on your system, you can download the latest Microsoft SAPI5.1 speech technology below.

SAPI 5

For XP systems, you may need to install Microsoft SAPI 5.1, recognizers, and synthesizers.

Download SAPI five one (50MB)