Installation Instructions

  1. After downloading the zip file for this bean package, unzip it, using the jar command or any unzip utility. This will automatically create a new directory with the bean package name and extract files into it.
  2. To use these beans in a visual builder tool, do the followings:
    1. Make sure the visual builder tool supports JDK V1.2 or later.
    2. Download the ViaVoice SDK, Java Technology Edition V1.0 and ViaVoice Runtimes required from http://www.software.ibm.com/speech/dev/sdk_java.html and install them.
    3. Import ibmjs.jar in the lib directory of where the ViaVoice SDK was installed, into the visual builder tool (Please refer to the User's Guide for your visual builder tool for instructions on how to import jar files).
    4. Import Voice.jar in the lib directory of the unzipped folder, into the visual builder tool.
    5. Find a file called speech.properties in the lib directory of the installed Java 1.2 run-time environment, and copy it to the lib directory in the visual builder tool's directory (e.g. into IBMVJava/Ide/Program/Lib for VisualAge for Java, or JBuilder/lib for JBuilder, or VisualCafePDE/Java/lib for VisualCafe).
    6. Add ibmjs.jar to the external CLASSPATH setting in the visual builder tool.
    7. Note: Remember to NOT compute CLASSPATH in Visual Age. That will include extra things which causes the application to throw an obscure error. Make sure that in the CLASSPATH of the application, only the external ibmjs.jar is set.
  3. To use these beans without a visual builder tool, do the followings:
    1. Make sure JDK V1.2 or later is supported.
    2. Download the ViaVoice SDK, Java Technology Edition V1.0 and ViaVoice Runtimes required from http://www.software.ibm.com/speech/dev/sdk_java.html and install them.
    3. Add Voice.jar in the lib directory to your CLASSPATH setting.
  4. To run the demo application provided with this package, follow the instructions in the Readme.html file in the demo directory. It is not necessary to update your CLASSPATH setting in order to run the demo. The demo program will do this automatically.

Note: This bean package includes separate jar files for design and run-time functions. Import the design-time jar file (Voice.jar) into your visual builder tool, and use the run-time jar file (Voice_Runtime.jar) for optimal run-time performance.