Chant Expands Speech Options for Desktop, Web, and Mobile Applications.Updated Components Accelerate Voice Controlled Application Development LOS ANGELES Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- Chant Inc., the leading independent software vendor of speech technology tools, announced today general availability of SpeechKit 5, a new version of its component software that enables software programs and web pages to speak and respond to voice. Now developers have the ability to quickly and easily add speech recognition and speech synthesis speech synthesis Generation of speech by artificial means, usually by computer. Production of sound to simulate human speech is referred to as low-level synthesis. High-level synthesis deals with the conversion of written text or symbols into an abstract representation of (text-to-speech) capabilities to desktop, web, and mobile applications that can utilize the majority of available speech technologies. SpeechKit 5 provides a common application interface for Cepstral, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Microsoft, and Nuance speech technologies. "We were able to integrate text-to-speech in the Remote Access Bridge, a Java application A Java program that is run stand alone. The Java Virtual Machine in the client or server is interpreting the instructions. Contrast with Java applet. See servlet. at NC State University, with SpeechKit 5 in no time and run with more voices than we ever imagined," says Sina Bahram, President of Ad-Lib Technology, who also plans to take advantage of the new WinCE edition in Ad-Lib products. "In addition, we can easily build conversation based speech input/output .NET desktop and mobile applications with SpeechKit 5." New key features and capabilities provided by SpeechKit 5 include: * Native speech API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. support for Cepstral, Nuance RealSpeak Solo, and Nuance VoCon 3200 * WinCE Edition for Pocket PC 2003 and Windows Mobile The Windows platform from Microsoft for handheld devices, including PDAs, cellphones and Portable Media Centers. See Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone and Portable Media Center. 5 devices * Unified audio management for playback and recording independent of Speech APIs and event handling for USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. wireless headsets * Performance enhancements and streamlined queue management for synchronous and asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. requests US Pricing and Availability SpeechKit 5 can be ordered today. SpeechKit 5 Win32 Developer Edition new user pricing is $199. SpeechKit 5 WinCE Developer Edition new user pricing is $199. SpeechKit Win32 Deployment Edition pricing is $199. SpeechKit WinCE Deployment Edition pricing is $399. For more information about features and pricing, visit www.speechkit.com. About Chant Chant Inc. is a leading provider of software and services that help organizations gain competitive advantage with speech technology. Chant is the first company to provide engine-independent middleware for developing desktop, mobile, web-enabled, and telephony applications that use speech technology. For more information, please visit www.chant.net. Getting the world talking with technology. 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. |
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