What is SpeakRight?

SpeakRight is an open-source Java framework for writing speech recognition applications in VoiceXML.Unlike most proprietary speech-app tools, SpeakRight is code-based. Developers write their application in Java using SpeakRight classes and their own extensions. Java IDEs such as Eclipse provide great debugging, and fast Java-aware editing and refactoring.

The basic class is the flow object which has a similar role to controls in GUI frameworks. A flow object manages presentation (prompts, grammars, and retry logic), and control flow. In MVC terms, a flow object is both the view and the controller. Flow objects can be customized (by setting properties), or extended using sub-classing. SpeakRight provides built-in objects for standard data types (time, date, alphanum), and for standard flow algorithms (forms, menus, list traversal, confirmation). Your application can combine and customize these built-in flows, or create your own.