Chant Developer Workbench

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

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Within the Chant Developer Workbench interactive environment, users can:

• Manage grammars with GrammarKit:
• Create and edit grammars in native grammar syntax
• Generate word pronunciation phonemes
• Compile and debug grammars
• Test grammars with live and recorded audio, and text simulation (requires SpeechKit)
• Manage lexicons with LexiconKit:
• Create and edit lexicon using XML
• Generate word pronunciation phonemes
• Edit word pronunciation phonemes
• Import and export lexicon word pronunciations
• Add and remove dictation shortcuts
• Manage speaker profiles with ProfileKit:
• Create and delete speaker profiles
• Enumerate speaker profiles for selection and command line testing
• Invoke speaker training
• Import and export speaker profiles
• Manage speech engines with SpeechKit:
• Enumerate audio devices and speech engines for selection and command line testing of audio-, recogniser-, and synthesiser-specific features
• Trace audio, recognition, and synthesis events
• Support grammar activation and testing (requires GrammarKit)
• Support TTS markup playback (requires VoiceMarkupKit)
• Manage TTS markup with VoiceMarkupKit:
• Create and edit documents with TTS markup
• Generate TTS markup
• Generate word pronunciation phonemes
• Edit word pronunciation phonemes (requires LexiconKit)
• Playback text with TTS markup (requires SpeechKit)

Chant Developer Workbench includes 32-bit, 64-bit, and mobile interactive environments and GrammarKit, LexiconKit, ProfileKit, SpeechKit, and VoiceMarkupKit component libraries.