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Chant Developer Workbench 2022

Tools and Components for Integrating Speech and Natural User Interface Technology

Chant Developer Workbench

When building applications, it's essential that you have the right toolsto get the job done.

Now you can develop applications that speak, listen, and interact with users using Developer Workbench from Chant. You can easily manage conversations, grammars, lexicons, movement, profiles, speech, and text-to-speech markup directly within application software you develop. Chant Developer Workbench is comprised of tools and class libraries for integrating speech and natural user interface technology.

The Chant Developer Workbench interactive toolset provides development and testing environment for working with:


Interactive Development Environment

Chant Developer Workbench provides a comprehensive development and testing environment for working with speech and natural user interface technology that features:

  • Multi-document, interactive, customisable environment;
  • Powerful editor with colour-coded formatting, intelliprompt, optional outlining, optional line numbers, undo-redo, word wrap, and find/replace;
  • Resource browsers for testing; and
  • Event tracing.

The tabbed-document interface provides for fast switching among multiple documents and browsers.

The editing environment is designed to accelerate speech technology grammar and markup development with built-in syntax checking and prompting.

The multi-docked windows layout is configurable to yield productivity for various development and testing scenarios.

Toolbars can be easily customized to display the facilities most often used.

Window layout and toolbar settings are persisted across executions.

Feature Summary

Chant Developer Workbench is comprised of essential tools and class libraries for developing software that speaks, listens, and interacts with users. It provides an IDE for developing and interactively testing speech and natural user interface technologies. You can manage conversations, grammars, movement, profiles, lexicons, speech, and text-to-speech markup directly within application software you develop and deploy.

Design Grammars with GrammarKit

A GrammarKit application can:

  • Compile and validate grammar syntax; and
  • Persist compiled grammar binary.

Within the Chant Developer Workbench IDE, you can:

  • Create and edit grammars in native grammar syntax;
  • Generate word pronunciation phonemes (requires LexiconKit);
  • Edit word pronunciation phonemes (requires LexiconKit);
  • Compile and debug grammars; and
  • Test grammars with live audio (requires SpeechKit).

Track Movement with KinesicsKit

A KinesicsKit application can:

  • Capture and map color, depth, and body data;
  • Record and playback audio files; and
  • Integrate movement tracking with speech technology.

Within the Chant Developer Workbench IDE, you can:

  • Render and analyse colour, depth, and body data; and
  • Validate sensor image streams.

Tailor Pronunciations with LexiconKit

A LexiconKit application can:

  • Create and delete lexicon word pronunciations on demand;
  • Edit lexicon word pronunciations for ensuring maximum recognition accuracy and speech synthesis quality; and

Within the Chant Developer Workbench IDE, you can:

  • Create and edit W3C lexicons (.pls);
  • Create and edit Cepstral lexicon file (.txt);
  • Generate word pronunciation phonemes;
  • Edit word pronunciation phonemes; and
  • Speak word pronunciation phonemes.

Administer Speaker Profiles with ProfileKit

A ProfileKit application can:

  • Create and delete speaker profiles on demand;
  • Launch recognizer built-in dialogs;
  • Customise speaker training.

Within the Chant Developer Workbench IDE, you can:

  • Create and delete speaker profiles;
  • Enumerate speaker profiles; and
  • Invoke recognizer built-in speaker training.

Recognise and Synthesize Speech with SpeechKit

A SpeechKit application can:

  • Control application functions by speaking rather than having to use a mouse or keyboard;
  • Prompt users for applicable data capture;
  • Capture data by speaking rather than typing;
  • Confirm data capture with spoken or audio acknowledgement;
  • Transcribe audio files to text; and
  • Synthesize speech to files.

Within the Chant Developer Workbench IDE, you can:

  • Enumerate speech engines for testing recognizer-, and synthesizer-specific features;
  • Trace recognition and synthesis events;
  • Support grammar activation and testing; and
  • Support TTS markup playback.

Fine-tune Speech Synthesis with VoiceMarkupKit

A VoiceMarkupKit application can:

  • Generate markup language in Acapela TTS Tag, CereProc CereVoice, MicrosoftSAPI 5 XML, and W3C SSML syntax; and
  • Dynamically switch among speech APIs and syntax formats.

Within the Chant Developer Workbench IDE, you can:

  • Create and edit documents with TTS markup;
  • Generate TTS markup;
  • Generate word pronunciation phonemes (requires LexiconKit);
  • Edit word pronunciation phonemes (requires LexiconKit); and
  • Playback text with TTS markup (requires SpeechKit).

Enrich Conversations with VoiceXMLKit

A VoiceXMLKit application can:

  • Validate VoiceVXML syntax; and
  • Interpret VoiceXML documents.

Within the Chant Developer Workbench IDE, you can:

  • Create and edit VoiceXML documents;
  • Test VoiceXML documents with microphone audio and keypad data; and
  • Trace runtime events.

 


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