Interestingly, a lot of hits on our NuGram web site come from people looking for the words ABNF tutorial on one of the major search engines. And although we provide great tools for working with ABNF grammars, we don’t provide any introductory text on the ABNF syntax. That’s a shame!
To remedy this situation, I just put on Slideshare a presentation extracted from our training material that covers the basic concepts of ABNF grammars.
An ABNF Primer
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Remember that ABNF is the native syntax for many speech recognition (ASR) engines. And if your ASR doesn’t support it, let NuGram IDE handle the conversion to XML for you!

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