com.sun.speech.freetts
Class Segmenter

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

UtteranceProcessor

public class Segmenter

extends java.lang.Object

implements UtteranceProcessor

Annotates an utterance with Relation.SYLLABLE, Relation.SYLLABLE_STRUCTURE, and Relation.SEGMENT. To determine stress, the isStressed method relies upon a phone ending in the number "1". Subclasses should override isStressed and deStress if stresses are determined in other ways.

See Also:

Relation.SEGMENT, Relation.SYLLABLE, Relation.SYLLABLE_STRUCTURE

Constructor Summary

Segmenter()

Method Summary

protected java.lang.String	deStress(java.lang.String phone) Converts stressed phoneme to regular phoneme.
protected boolean	isStressed(java.lang.String phone) Determines if the given phonemene is stressed.
void	processUtterance(Utterance utterance) Annotates an utterance with Relation.SYLLABLE, Relation.SYLLABLE_STRUCTURE, and Relation.SEGMENT.
java.lang.String	toString() Returns the simple name of this class.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Segmenter

public Segmenter()

Method Detail

processUtterance

public void processUtterance(Utterance utterance)
                      throws ProcessException

Annotates an utterance with Relation.SYLLABLE, Relation.SYLLABLE_STRUCTURE, and Relation.SEGMENT.

Specified by:

processUtterance in interface UtteranceProcessor

Parameters:

utterance - the utterance to process/tokenize

Throws:

ProcessException - if an IOException is thrown during the processing of the utterance

See Also:

Relation.SEGMENT, Relation.SYLLABLE, Relation.SYLLABLE_STRUCTURE

isStressed

protected boolean isStressed(java.lang.String phone)

Determines if the given phonemene is stressed. To determine stress, this method relies upon a phone ending in the number "1". Subclasses should override this method if stresses are determined in other ways.

Parameters:

phone - the phone to check

Returns:

true if the phone is stressed, otherwise false

deStress

protected java.lang.String deStress(java.lang.String phone)

Converts stressed phoneme to regular phoneme. This method merely removes the last character of the phone. Subclasses should override this if another method is to be used.

Parameters:

phone - the phone to convert

Returns:

de-stressed phone

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Returns the simple name of this class.

Returns:

the simple name of this class