CDW 2025 Keeping up with the Apples, Googles, and Microsofts

April 8, 2025

Chant Developer Workbench 2025 updated with the latest compilers, runtimes, and SDKs

Like famous celebrity families, keeping up to date with all the tech vendors can be a daunting challenge.

With Speech technology integration, Chant Developer Workbench 2025 aims to keep you up to date so you can voice enable cross platform and native applications with the latest programming environments, SDKs, and platforms.

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.

Review the summary of details in Knowledge Base article F032501.

The Chant Developer Workbench IDE on Windows that enables development and testing of speech recognition and speech synthesis features for cloud, desktop, and mobile platforms is a .NET 8 (LTS) app that requires either the .NET 8 runtime or SDK installed.

Product licenses are available at the Chant store and resellers ComponentSource, MicroWay, and QBS. Federal, state, and local government GSA licensing is available at ComponentSource.

Download and try the latest releases. Let us know your thoughts, if you need assistance, or have questions. We can provide turnkey apps if you no longer want to build them yourself.