About Voice Tools

Using the power and flexibility of our Voice Tools, you have full control of the voice interface interaction: From simple button and page navigation by voice to interactively selecting items from lists, to free dictation with full correction and playback capabilities, our Voice Tools deliver what you need to add the power of speech to your application. While retaining all standard Windows properties, text boxes can be designed for interactive voice dictation sessions, list boxes can verbally report their contents, and all types of buttons and tabs can be "clicked" by voice.

Voice Tools Includes

		Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech component software in ActiveX/COM OCX (controls) and DLL (objects) formats
		Sample applications written in Visual Basic and VBScript
		Microsoft Speech Recognition Engine (For Internal Development Only)
		Microsoft Text To Speech Engine (For Internal Development Only)

Licenses for Commercial Distribution For VTK distribution licenses, please fill out the runtime questionnaire found on the Wizzard website or call Wizzard Sales at 954-678-4155 with your usage scenario and a sales professional will be able to answer your questions. (Unlimited (VTK) Distribution License) Price.......................$500.00 Microsoft Runtimes: Applications developed with the SAPI Voice Tools require a runtime version of the Microsoft Speech Engine. The runtimes contain the speech engine and data files to be integrated with your application package. Contact Microsoft.

Note: The WizzScribe API Reference and sample client application source code provide information needed to understand the details of the server API and how to use it.

Detailed Voice Tools Description

For voice driven applications and web pages, the mouse and keyboard can be used in combination with your voice for a more productive user interface. There is no impact on ability to use the mouse or keyboard when adding speech to your application!

Even the most powerful and robust speech APIs on the market don't provide the application framework or support needed to create and maintain high quality voice interfaces. Our Voice Tools do! Voice Tools support SAPI 5.x, the new release of Microsoft's Speech Application Programming Interface used in MS OfficeXP and WindowsXP. As an added value and free of charge, all Voice Tools developers can download royalty free Speech Recognition and Text-To-Speech engines.

It includes everything you need to create great speech-enabled applications with Microsoft SAPI 5 on Windows 98, Me, NT, 2000 or XP. Rapidly integrate speech technology and deploy speech aware applications and web sites using your favorite development environment: Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual FoxPro, Delphi, JavaScript, VBScript and all other languages which support use of ActiveX/COM objects.

List of all visual controls

The Sapi Sonar control makes everything work. It allows navigation by voice within an application developed with Voice Tools. All controls send information to the Sonar Tool, which in turn communicates directly with the SAPI compatible ASR and TTS engine, sending and receiving information as needed. The SapiSonar control automatically voice enables most other Voice Tools controls, however, Sapi Sonar can also voice-enable pre-defined keyboard commands, regular buttons, option-buttons (also called radio buttons), checkboxes, menu items (file, edit, view, etc). Additionally, it has built-in navigational commands (to move between fields), commands for microphone manipulations, text selections and corrections. All features are enabled by default, but can be turned off at design time or run time.

Sapi Map control is used for a "What Can I Say" list. It provides a display of all commands currently available to the end user by voice. You may want to put this on the form if you want the end user to know all the different words or phrases they can speak at any specific point. The control is re-sizable and has scrolling capabilities which are automatically enabled when the list becomes larger. This is a key component in any speech enabled application!

The Sapi List control acts as a standard list box and allows the end user to select items by voice. Each item may consist of one or more words. Each SapiList may have thousands of items for use with such things as an address book or items in a database.

The Sapi Combo control acts as a standard combo box (also called drop-down list) and allows the end user to select items by voice. Each item might consist of one or more words. Each Sapi Combo may have thousands of items for use with such things as an address book or items in a database.

The Sapi Text control acts as a standard text box and allows the end user to dictate text by voice in addition to allowing traditional input through the keyboard. No special voice commands are required by the user. All grammar structures, capitalization, dates and number formatting, etc. are added automatically by the speech recognition engine with the exception of punctuation marks.

The Sapi Grammar control can help a developer create speech templates with dynamically created word lists that allow tremendous flexibility. They allow for multiple word input and create a feeling of natural language understanding and sophisticated intelligence for your application.
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The Sapi Voice control allows developers to provide synthesized voice feedback for the end user through the default SAPI TTS engine's speakers. This control allows you to verbally interact with the end user and allows for eyes free computing. Great for patient interaction, call center operators, and hands-on mechanical technicians.

The Sapi Engines control allows the end user to set a default speech recognition engine. At run time, the Sapi Engines control will show all the available SAPI compatible speech recognition engines detected on the end users computer. To make a specific engine the default engine the user can click the checkbox on the left of the name of the preferred engine. The engine will immediately become the default engine and will be placed on the top of the list. With speech engines now coming standard with WindowsXP, MS OfficeXP and AOL, the ability to select a specific speech engine is a critical component to reaching high speech recognition accuracy and achieving the productivity increases available through the use of speech recognition.

The Sapi Users control allows the end user to set a default user profile. Most SAPI compatible speech recognition engines allow thousands of user's voice files to be stored on the same computer. At run time, the Sapi Users control will show all available user profiles detected on the end users computer.

The Sapi Lexicons control allows the end user to set a default lexicon (most SAPI compatible speech recognition engines allow for more than one lexicon to be registered on the same computer). At run time, the Sapi Lexicons control will show all of the available lexicons detected on the end users computer. To make any lexicon the default lexicon single click the checkbox on the left of the lexicon name. The lexicon will immediately become the default lexicon and will be relocated to the top of the list.

The Sapi Speakers control allows the end user to set a default speaker within the default SAPI compatible Text-To-Speech engine. At run time, the SapiSpeakers control will show all available speakers detected on the end users computer. To make any speaker the default speaker, single click the checkbox to left to the name of the speaker. The speaker will then immediately become the default speaker and will then be relocated to the top of the list.