Third Party Products: Speech Tools

Today there are many types of speech recognition engines, development tools, and various applications that are developed for and use the Microsoft Speech API. This page highlights some third party products that support the Microsoft Speech API version 5.0/5.1.

Note: These products are not for use with Microsoft Speech Server.

ChantChant

Chant is a leading provider of software and services that help companies deploy systems that speak and listen. Develop applications that speak and respond to voice with Chant® SpeechKit™, a comprehensive speech technology toolkit for voice-enabling your desktop, telephony, and Internet applications. SpeechKit components work with all your favorite programming languages and even on the Web. So, whether you're coding in C/C++, Delphi, HTML (JavaScript or VBScript), Java, or Visual Basic, you can be talking with technology.

GetVocal.comGetVocal.com

GetVocal.com, a division of Digital Voice Technologies, offers a suite of voice application development tools and voice web infrastructure solutions that focus on the new open standards of VoiceXML.
We offer a GetVocal SDK which is a powerful VoiceXML software developer kit that allows developers to quickly build and run VoiceXML applications on their Computer with ASR/TTS provided by the Microsoft SpeechSDK.

O&A ProductionsO&A Productions

O&A Productions develops ActiveX and VCL components for rapid application development of speech applications. DTalk VCL and ActiveX controls are SAPI-compliant speech controls for ActiveX and VCL development environments. Components include text-to-speech and speech recognition with extensive property pages and editors to simplify all phases of speech technology development.

SpeechStudio Inc.SpeechStudio Inc.

SpeechStudio Inc. supplies tools to enhance the integration, refinement and testing of speech recognition on SAPI 5. SpeechStudio Suite speeds the development of voice user interfaces. It includes SpeechStudio for development, SpeechPlayer (a free run-time application for distribution), and SpeechRunner for sophisticated testing. SpeechStudio Suite works with Microsoft Visual C++ and Visual Basic applications.
SpeechStudio Lexicon Builder for Office XP helps value-added resellers extend the built-in vocabulary of Office XP with the specialized words, phrases, and pronunciations their customers need to be successful with voice recognition.
With SpeechStudio, any software development team can design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain an excellent and cost-effective voice user interface. As development environments such as Microsoft Visual Studio simplified personal computer software development, so does SpeechStudio simplify the addition of speech to Windows and Office applications.

Wizzard SoftwareWizzard Software

Wizzard Software's ActiveX Voice Tools 7.0 is a speech development toolset that can be applied to new or existing applications. It was designed to give you the ability to add speech recognition and text-to-speech capabilities, using the Speech API standard for Windows (SAPI 5.x), to most software and web applications. Our Voice Tools product line won the Visual Basic Programmer's Journal award as the top speech recognition development tools in 1999 and 2000.
Our award winning Voice Tools have been created as a result of six years of hard core speech recognition programming experience, many successful application deployments and are the tools our internal programmers use to create sophisticated speech applications for hospitals, law enforcement entities, financial institutions and many others.
To learn more about our offering, and download a free evaluation version of our Voice Tools 7.0 Click here.

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