com.sun.speech.freetts.en
Class ContourGenerator

java.lang.Object
  com.sun.speech.freetts.en.ContourGenerator

All Implemented Interfaces:

UtteranceProcessor

public class ContourGenerator

extends java.lang.Object

implements UtteranceProcessor

Calculates the F0 curve for an utterance based on the Black and Hunt article "Generating F0 Contours from ToBI Labels Using Linear Regression," ICSLP96, vol. 3, pp 1385-1388, Philadelphia, PA. 1996.

Constructor Summary

ContourGenerator(java.net.URL url, float modelMean, float modelStddev)
Creates a ContourGenerator utterance processor.

Method Summary

protected void	parseAndAdd(java.util.List list, java.lang.String line) Parses the line into an F0ModelTerm.
void	processUtterance(Utterance utterance) Generates the F0 contour for the utterance.
java.lang.String	toString() Returns the string representation of the object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ContourGenerator

public ContourGenerator(java.net.URL url,
                        float modelMean,
                        float modelStddev)
                 throws java.io.IOException

Creates a ContourGenerator utterance processor.

Parameters:

url - source of the data

modelMean - the average frequency

modelStddev - the std deviation of the frequency

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if an error occurs while loading data

Method Detail

processUtterance

public void processUtterance(Utterance utterance)
                      throws ProcessException

Generates the F0 contour for the utterance.

Specified by:

processUtterance in interface UtteranceProcessor

Parameters:

utterance - the utterance to process

Throws:

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

parseAndAdd

protected void parseAndAdd(java.util.List list,
                           java.lang.String line)

Parses the line into an F0ModelTerm.

Parameters:

list - resulting F0ModelTerm is added to this list

line - the string to parse

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Returns the string representation of the object.

Returns:

the string representation of the object