LexiconKit

Adjust to the Manner of Speaking

Manage lexicons for optimal recognition and synthesis with LexiconKit

No matter how you slice it, a tomato is just a tomato. However, your end users—customers and clients—may be partial to their kind of tomato. Your applications need to accommodate and adjust to their manner of speaking when recognising and synthesizing.

A lexicon is a collection of word pronunciations that a speech recognition engine (i.e., recognizer) uses to improve recognition accuracy and a speech synthesis engine (i.e., synthesizer) uses to enhance the quality of its pronunciation.

Lexicons play an important role in the accuracy of speech recognition. A speech recognition engine (i.e., recognizer) uses lexicons in the process of recognising speech. Lexicons consist of the words that a recognizer understands and returns as recognised speech. Since it's impractical for a recognizer to maintain every possible word and context in its spoken language, you enhance the accuracy of speech recognition by extending its lexicon.

Lexicons play an important role in the quality of text-to-speech playback. A text-to-speech engine (i.e., synthesizer) uses lexicons to obtain pronunciation information associated with words to generate the appropriate speech sounds for the word. For example, with a lexicon you may ensure "record" is pronounced correctly when used as a noun and when used as a verb.

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What is Lexicon Management?

Lexicon management enables you to:

tailor pronunciations to specific end user preferences.
extend recognizer and synthezizer lexicons, and
create, delete, edit, import, and export lexicons as part of your deployed applications.

Application benefits include:

improved speech recognition accuracy and
enhanced speech synthesis clarity.

What is LexiconKit?

Chant LexiconKit handles the complexities of creating and editing lexicons for deployment with applications and generating and speaking pronunciations.

LexiconKit provides you a simple way to create, edit, and speak word pronunciations in lexicons. Applications can generate and speak pronunciations as part of its runtime operation to enable real-time customisation and tailoring of speech recognition and speech synthesis environments.

It simplifies the process of managing word pronunciations for Acapeka TTS, Cepstral Swift API, and Microsoft lexicon formats to use with your favorite speech recognizers and synthesizers.

LexiconKit includes C++, C++Builder, Delphi, Java, and .NET Framework class library formats to support all your programming languages and sample projects for popular IDEs—such as the latest Visual Studio from Microsoft and RAD Studio from Embarcadero.

The class libraries can be integrated with 32-bit and 64-bit applications for Windows platforms.

Lexicon Management Architecture

LexiconKit provides a simple way to create and edit lexicon word pronunciations. Applications can generate pronunciations to enable real-time customization and tailoring of speech recognition and speech synthesis.

LexiconKit manages the resources and interacts directly with the applicable speech application program interface (API). The LexiconKit class supports the following speech APIs for lexicon management:

Acapela TTS,
Cepstral Swift,
Microsoft SAPI 5,
Microsoft Speech Platform, and
Microsoft WindowsMedia.

LexiconKit encapsulates all of the technologies necessary to make the process of generating word pronunciations simple and efficient.

LexiconKit simplifies the process of generating and speaking pronunciations by handling the low-level activities directly with the speech recognition and synthesis engines.

Instantiate LexiconKit to generate and speak the default word pronunciation within the application and destroy LexiconKit to release its resources when lexicon management is no longer needed.

Feature Summary

The goal of lexicon management is to adjust to the end user manner of speaking for enhanced speech recognition accuracy and speech synthesis quality. With LexiconKit you can:

Create word pronunciations on demand;
Edit lexicon word pronunciations for ensuring maximum recognition accuracy and speech synthesis quality;
Edit lexicon word pronunciations for ensuring maximum recognition accuracy and speech synthesis quality; and
Speak lexicon word pronunciations to fine-tune definitions.

Chant LexiconKit handles the complexities of managing and persisting word pronunciations. This allows your application to enhance the quality of speech recognition and speech synthesis and offer administrative features for maintaining word pronunciations.

Recognizers and synthesizers have unique formats for word pronunciations, lexicon formats, and approaches for runtime inclusion. LexiconKit supports the following recognizer and synthesizers and their lexicons formats.

Speech API	Alphabets	File Format
Acapela TTS	ipa, acatts	.dic
Cepstral Swift API	swift	.txt
Microsoft (SAPI5, Speech Platform, WindowsMedia)	ipa, sapi, ups	W3C .pls

Within Chant Developer Workbench, 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.

PLS Lexicon Editing: Edit word pronunciations faster using XML with built-in intelliprompt that suggest valid syntax and with built-in phoneme generation and editing tool windows.

Cepstral Pronunciation Editing: Create and edit Cepstral default pronunciations faster by using the auto generation feature. Simply type the word, space, and 0 to generate the default pronunciation for editing.

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