How do I go on importing JSAPI classes into my code?

[ankiit]

I am using ubuntu 12.04.

I am planning to work on Java speech recognition (Start-up Project). While I was trying to import classes like javax.speech.*, javax.speech.recognition.* the system gave me an error saying that the classes are not found.

I have tried freeTTS, but having a hard-time importing the classes. Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks

[Tolls]

Have you got the jar file that contains those classes on your class path?

[ankiit]

Please correct me if I am wrong, do i need to add the path of jar file to the path which contains reference to bin directory under environment variables.

i have added the jsapi.jar to the class path referring to jdk's bin dir.

[Tolls]

No, you add it to the specific classpath used for compiling or executing (ie javac or java).
If you are using an IDE then you add it to the build path or equivalent, which is IDE dependent and will be in the docs for it.
It all depends how you are doing this.

[ankiit]

so does this mean that i copy that jar file and place it in a directory containing javac? Please excuse for my novice questions.

[Tolls]

Classpath.
You want to use the -classpath switch, not the CLASSPATH environment variable.
That's if you;re using the command line.
If you're using an IDE (not recommended if you're only just starting out) then you'll need to read up on how the classpath (or build path) works for that IDE.