com.sun.speech.freetts
Class Gender

java.lang.Object
  com.sun.speech.freetts.Gender

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Comparable

public class Gender

extends java.lang.Object

implements java.lang.Comparable

Provides an enumeration of Gender, following the JSAPI style. (http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/speech/forDevelopers/jsapi-doc/) These are intended for use to define properties about FreeTTS voices.

See Also:

Voice

Field Summary

static Gender	DONT_CARE Match against all other genders.
static Gender	FEMALE Female.
static Gender	MALE Male.
static Gender	NEUTRAL Neutral such as a robot or artificial.

Method Summary

int	compareTo(java.lang.Object o) Compare two genders.
java.lang.String	toString() Generates a human readable name describing the gender.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

MALE

public static final Gender MALE

Male.

FEMALE

public static final Gender FEMALE

Female.

NEUTRAL

public static final Gender NEUTRAL

Neutral such as a robot or artificial.

DONT_CARE

public static final Gender DONT_CARE

Match against all other genders.

Method Detail

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Generates a human readable name describing the gender.

Returns:

the name of the gender

compareTo

public int compareTo(java.lang.Object o)

Compare two genders. If either is DONT_CARE, then returns 0.

Specified by:

compareTo in interface java.lang.Comparable