Voice Enabling Apps a Lot Easier with Latest Chant Tools

Chant Developer Workbench 2024 simplifies speech technology integration with streamlined authentication and library packaging for configuration management

Los Angeles, California, June 25, 2024—Chant Inc., a leading independent vendor of speech and natural user interface technology tools and class libraries, announced today availability of a new version of its flagship toolset for developing software that speaks, listens, and interacts with users.

Chant Developer Workbench is comprised of essential tools and class libraries for integrating speech and NUI technology. It provides an IDE for developing and interactively testing speech and natural user interface technologies. Developers can manage conversations, grammars, movement, profiles, lexicons, speech, and text-to-speech markup directly within application software they develop and deploy using prebuilt class libraries.

"Keeping up with constantly updating compilers, SDKs, and platforms can be a daunting process," said John Earle, president and founder of Chant Inc. "With Developer Workbench 2024 class libraries, streamlined authentication and library packaging simplify things across various programming languages and platforms."

New key features and capabilities provided by Chant Developer Workbench 2024 include:

  • Updated support for Acapela, Cepstral, CereProc, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Microsoft Azure Speech, Microsoft SAPI5, Microsoft Windows Media (WinRT and UWP), System.Speech, Microsoft.Speech, and Microsoft Speech Platform speech technologies;
  • New Nuget packages for Microsoft Visual C++, C# and VB .NET including .NET 8.0 assemblies;
  • Updated Java JAR libraries for JDKs (LTS) 1.8, 11, 17, and 21;
  • Updated Visual Studio, RAD Studio, JDK (Eclipse, NetBeans, et. al.), Android Studio, and Xcode (Objective-C and Swift) sample projects for rapid application development;
  • Streamlined credentials processing for subscription-based authentication; and
  • Expanded Azure Synthesis services support for Open AI voices.

US Pricing and Availability

Chant Developer Workbench 2024 is available today. Pricing is $468 per developer that includes 1-Year maintenance, support, and updates for Chant Developer Workbench interactive tools environment, Audio Search, GrammarKit, KinesicsKit, LexiconKit, ProfileKit, SpeechKit, SpeechManager, Talk&Listen, VoiceMarkupKit and VoiceXMLKit. For more information about features and pricing, visit www.developerworkbench.com.

About Chant

Chant Inc. is a leading provider of software and services that help organizations gain competitive advantage with speech and natural user interface technology. Chant is the first company to provide engine-independent middleware for developing desktop, embedded, and telephony applications that use speech and NUI technology. For more information, please visit www.chant.net.

Chant, SpeechKit, and Getting the World Talking with Technology are trademarks or registered trademarks of Chant Inc. All other marks are owned by their respective companies.