Adding speech recognition support to UML tools

In this paper we present an approach to develop speech interfaces to UML tools. We also show that UML is a favorable target to speech recognition and that speech recognition is applicable and mature enough to be used to enhance usage of UML tools. To support our claims, we present a spoken language created for editing UML models, a prototype of a speech control system integrated with Rational Rose, and the results of the early user tests on the system and the language.