SpeechStudio Releases Speech Tools for Visual Basic
Speech
Recognition for Visual Basic Applications
Portland, OR,
Oct. 30, 2001: SpeechStudio Inc.
today began shipping SpeechStudio Suite for Visual Basic 2.0, its complete
software development solution for adding speech recognition interfaces to
Microsoft Windows applications. SpeechStudio Suite is a revolutionary new
application that easily enables developers to add speech recognition to new or
existing application programs using industry-standard Microsoft Visual Studio.
“I have found SpeechStudio easy to use, highly
effective for my application, flexible, and well integrated with Visual Basic,”
said Steve Kaye, senior developer at Pitney Bowes. “The documentation is quite
good and technical support has been excellent.”
SpeechStudio includes everything a software
developer needs to add speech recognition to a new or existing Microsoft Windows
application, along with two in-depth tutorials: a voice-enabled version of the
Scribble drawing program and full start-to-finish example of a voice-activated
calculator.
SpeechStudio Suite includes one year of technical support and
five development tools:
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SpeechStudio XML Grammar Editor.
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SpeechRunner, a complete testing solution for voice-enabled
applications.
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SpeechPlayer, a freely redistributable runtime system for
Microsoft SAPI 5.
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SpeechCollector, a voice-sample collector and prompt recorder.
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Lexicon Builder Pro, a vocabulary builder.
A free 30-day trial of SpeechStudio Suite is
available directly from SpeechStudio’s web site,
http://www.speechstudio.com/visual_basic.
According to Dr. Stephen F. Zeigler, CEO of
SpeechStudio Inc., now is the right time to consider speech enabling
applications. “Speech will add value to most applications today, but next year
speech will be the key enabling technology for high-power applications on
handheld PCs and PDAs. Products that get a jump on speech will have a decided
advantage when the next generation platforms are released.”
Early access customer Karthik K. Rishi, of
Encodex Technologies Inc., said, “Time to learn and become productive is very
minimal. I was particularly impressed with the ease with which we were able to
generate the grammar file and the output SpeechStudio resource file.”
Voice-enabled applications can be deployed on
any system with Microsoft SAPI 5, Microsoft's royalty free speech-recognition
and text-to-speech software. SAPI 5 ships with Office XP and Windows XP, and is
included with SpeechStudio Suite.
About SpeechStudio Inc.
SpeechStudio Inc. designs, develops and provides software to simplify and
speed the integration, refinement, and testing of speech recognition for PC and
embedded applications. SpeechStudio software helps our customers to achieve
high-quality, reliable, intelligent voice interaction as a strategic asset.
SpeechStudio customers add value to their products and maximize their voice
capability while minimizing their investments in specific recognition
strategies. SpeechStudio Inc. was founded by an experienced team that helped
build two other successful software tool companies. The company is privately
financed, and based in Portland, Oregon.
The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be the
trademarks of their respective owners.
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