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Java Speech Development Kit: A Tutorial

Jan 15, 2002  By Dilvan de Moreira and José Fernando Júnior
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The authors show how to get started developing voice-activated interfaces using the Speech for Java Development Kit.
The API

The API that is being studied is composed by three packages that form the voice Speech for Java SDK:

  • package javax.speech: has the basic interfaces and implementations for the Engine interface. It also implements the Central class providing access to all the other functions for creating the most important entities of the technology, the synthesizers and recognizers. It is the basis for the remaining packages, remembering that the recognizer and synthesizer interfaces extend the Engine interface. This package also has resources for managing the audio received by the Engine and, as a last feature, its SpeechEvent class is inherited by all the other events of the API.

  • package javax.speech.synthesis: has all the classes and interfaces used for the synthesis process. It also provides the Voice class that determines how the synthesis will take place.

  • package javax.speech.recognition: the largest of the packages, it implements the recognizing and grammar classes, given their close relation. Also, there are the result classes that are very important in this architecture.

The packages are presented in a jar file named ibmjs.jar and the compilation is possible only after adding its full filesystem pathname to the CLASSPATH system variable, as follows:

                   CLASSPATH = %CLASSPATH% ; .../ibmjs.jar

After that and the proper installation of the IBM ViaVoice software, it is necessary to execute the following command:

                      java com.ibm.speech.util.Install
References

You can download the free IBM ViaVoice SDK Java at www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/speech.

You can download the free IBM ViaVoice SDK for Linux at www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/dev/sdk_linux.html.

Java Speech Interface from Sun is available at java.sun.com/products/java-media/speech/.

See java.icmc.usp.br for more information.

The authors acknowledge the support for this work from the The Research Foundation of the São Paulo State-FAPESP .

José Rodrigues Júnior is a graduate student at the ICMC-USP University of São Paulo. Dr. Dilvan Moreira is a lecturer at the ICMC-USP.

email: dilvan@icmc.sc.usp.br

email: dilvan@icmc.sc.usp.br

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Submitted by Gobinath (not verified) on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 19:59.

hi there
this is a very nice article. i really liked it and i planned to implement this in my project but unfortunately all the references links are dead.

kindly help me out . u can reach me at gobicse@gmail.com....

any help will be of great help..

thanks

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Submitted by Gobinath (not verified) on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 19:58.

hi there
this is a very nice article. i really liked it and i planned to implement this in my project but unfortunately all the references links are dead.

kindly help me out . u can reach me at gobicse@gmail.com....

any help will be of great help..

thanks

This is really useful. I

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Submitted by siva (not verified) on Wed, 12/09/2009 - 04:20.

This is really useful. I successfully completed my project voice controlled wheel chair with the help of this concept... It works well....

Re: Java Speech Development Kit: A Tutorial

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Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 10/25/2004 - 02:00.

Is there lib to use text to speak in portuguese language ?

Re: Java Speech Development Kit: A Tutorial

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Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 04/29/2003 - 02:00.

i have read your tutorial about the Java Speech Development Kit, it is truely very interesting, i would realy love to develop a programe of my own on this context. please help me im a graduate from the University of Botswana in Computer Science in Botswana, i realy ineterested in speech program but i dont know where to start and what i need. more especialy that i dont have any of the classies that i can use for statup training plz give me an advice.

my Email is matikitim2@yahoo.cu.com

thank you in advace

Moathodi Excellent Matikiti

Re: Java Speech Development Kit: A Tutorial

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Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 09/09/2004 - 02:00.

I am in the same situation as Moathodi, were I would like to develope a program on this subject. I would really appreciate it if you could aid me in kicking it of as I am not sure were to start.

My email is adil_rehman@hotmail.com

Many Thanks

Adil

Speech recognition engines

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Submitted by Mario (not verified) on Tue, 03/07/2006 - 23:53.

I have done a lot of research on the speech development architecture of java..but i am more interested in some package that might make the development of a speech to text application faster. Thanx...hope i get a reply...my emaill is mario_ramotar@yahoo.com

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