HowTo

Steps:

Try it.
- Our demos: PocketPC-based (NFL, travel, and tennis) and Java-based (NFL and secure travel). (setup instructions here.)
Buy it.
- Order the ANSR Developer Package from Sprex. This includes developer's tools to design, build, and deploy applications, a client program with sample code, and a server program which runs the ANSR service, along with licenses to run enough servers to handle 5 simultaneous voice-based ANSR conversations.
- Meet our License Terms by signing the license agreement, and providing a billing method (e.g., a credit card number) for security.
- You may use either your own purchase order or our PDF Purchase Order Generator, to create a formal purchase order; save a copy and email or fax it to us to submit your order.
- We'll give you a password and URL to download your own copy, after receipt of your signed license agreement, purchase order and payment information.
- ANSR comes as a Microsoft Installer file, a Windows CE .dll and support files, and/or a Linux "RPM package", which can be installed or uninstalled easily (see our list of supported platforms).

Install it.

```
% rpm -i ansr-<version>.<arch>.rpm
```
Add this line to /etc/inittab & run 'telinit q' to start it:
- ```
 spr0:5:respawn:/usr/local/bin/sprecd -D -s -l -z 16000 
```

Study it.
- ANSR has on-line manuals (man pages) which you can read using 'man ansr', 'man sprecc', 'man sprecd', and 'man gxc'.
- Additional documentation can be found in /usr/share/doc/ansr-[version]
Run it.
- Sprex programs, without any arguments, print help info. So run "sprecd", "sprecc", or "gxc" with no arguments, and read about them.
- Normal operation means sprecd accepts 16-bit linear PCM at 16kHz over a socket on the port specified in /etc/services. To do this while watching sprecd describe its activities, use:
  - ```
   sprecd -s -l -z 16000 
```
- To run sprecd using your own grammar lattice, lat, and dictionary, dct
  - ```
   sprecd -s -l -z 16000 -d dct -n lat 
```
- To run sprecd as a daemon process, hidden in the background, use:
  - ```
   sprecd -D -s -l -z 16000 
```
- To write a grammar and create a dictionary to use with sprecd, use gxc. See the gxc docs in /usr/share/doc/ansr-*
Get help if you need it.
- Contact us if you have problems or questions.
- Better yet, look at our FAQ's: for developers, for speech technology, and for users.