In this detailed online technical article from Linux Journal, the authors show how to get started developing voice-activated interfaces using the Speech for Java Development Kit. Dilvan de Abreu Moreira and José Fernando Rodrigues write . . .

“The Speech for Java is a Java programming package, 100% object-oriented, that uses the speech recognition and synthesis technology known as ViaVoice, which was commercialized by IBM. This API makes it possible to build application interfaces that take advantage of speech.”

“The recognition and synthesis operations are not processed by the Java software. The kit is just a way to built speech-oriented interfaces. Applications “throw” speech processing to the software behind them, the IBM ViaVoice (commercial or free version).”

“In this way, just like any other interface programming models, the Speech for Java Development Kit (SDK) is also event-oriented. Now, however, these events are not fired by the mouse or the keyboard, they are created due to human speech via a microphone . . .”

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