Advancements in Developing Apps that Speak and Listen with Chant Tools

Chant Developer Workbench 2025 advances speech technology integration for cloud, mobile, and desktop apps with latest technologies, techniques, and approaches

Los Angeles, California, April 8, 2025—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.

"Advances are blurring the lines between human and machine interaction," said John Earle, president and founder of Chant Inc. "With Developer Workbench 2025 latest updates, machine interaction is much more human-like with the latest technologies, techniques, and approaches in cloud, mobile, and desktop apps."

Chant Developer Workbench 2025 includes AudioSearch 6, GrammarKit 11, KinesicsKit 9, LexiconKit 11, ProfileKit 11, SpeechKit 14, SpeechManager 5, Talk&Listen 6, VoiceMarkupKit 11, and VoiceXMLKit 8 with new key features and capabilities:

  • Streamlined tools, libraries, and samples installation experiences for Windows and Macintosh systems;
  • Updated Nuget packages for Microsoft Visual C++, C# and VB .NET including .NET 9.0 assemblies;
  • 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;
  • Updated Visual Studio, RAD Studio, JDK (Eclipse, NetBeans, et. al.), Android Studio, and Xcode (Objective-C and Swift) sample projects for rapid application development;
  • Added Azure Speech Services credentials support for expanded platform deployments; and
  • Enhanced thread handling for synchronized ordered event processing in C++Builder and Delphi.

US Pricing and Availability

Chant Developer Workbench 2025 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.