com.sun.speech.freetts.cart
Class Intonator

java.lang.Object
  com.sun.speech.freetts.cart.Intonator

All Implemented Interfaces:

UtteranceProcessor

public class Intonator

extends java.lang.Object

implements UtteranceProcessor

Annotates the Relation.SYLLABLE relations of an utterance with "accent" and "endtone" features. Though not required, a typical use of this is to use the ToBI (tones and break indeces) scheme for transcribing intonation and accent in English, developed by Janet Pierrehumbert and Mary Beckman. This implementation is independent of the ToBI scheme: ToBI annotations are not used by this class, but are merely copied from the CART result to the "accent" and "endtone" features of the Relation.SYLLABLE relation.

Field Summary

protected CART	accentCart The accent CART used for this Intonation UtteranceProcessor.
protected CART	toneCart The tone CART used for this Intonation UtteranceProcessor.

Constructor Summary

Intonator(CART accentCart, CART toneCart)
Creates a new Intonation UtteranceProcessor with the given CARTs.

Method Summary

void	processUtterance(Utterance utterance) Annotates the Relation.SYLLABLE relations of an utterance with "accent" and "endtone" features.
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

accentCart

protected CART accentCart

The accent CART used for this Intonation UtteranceProcessor. It is passed into the constructor.

toneCart

protected CART toneCart

The tone CART used for this Intonation UtteranceProcessor. It is passed into the constructor.

Constructor Detail

Intonator

public Intonator(CART accentCart,
                 CART toneCart)

Creates a new Intonation UtteranceProcessor with the given CARTs.

Parameters:

accentCart - the CART for doing accents

toneCart - the CART for doing end tones

Method Detail

processUtterance

public void processUtterance(Utterance utterance)
                      throws ProcessException

Annotates the Relation.SYLLABLE relations of an utterance with "accent" and "endtone" features. Depends upon "NONE" being returned by either the accent or tone CART to indicate there isn't an intonation feature for a syllable.

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

toString

public java.lang.String toString()