com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us
Class CMUArcticVoice

java.lang.Object
  com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice
      com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.CMUVoice
          com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.CMUClusterUnitVoice
              com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.CMUArcticVoice

All Implemented Interfaces:

de.dfki.lt.freetts.ConcatenativeVoice, Dumpable, UtteranceProcessor

public class CMUArcticVoice

extends CMUClusterUnitVoice

Experimental class that selects units for the CMU ARCTIC voices.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.CMUClusterUnitVoice

database

Fields inherited from class com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice

DATABASE_NAME, DEFAULT_AUDIO_PLAYER, DEFAULT_AUDIO_PLAYER_DEFAULT, FEATURE_JOIN_TYPE, FEATURE_SILENCE, PROP_PREFIX

Constructor Summary

CMUArcticVoice(java.lang.String name, Gender gender, Age age, java.lang.String description, java.util.Locale locale, java.lang.String domain, java.lang.String organization, CMULexicon lexicon, java.net.URL database)
Creates a simple cluster unit voice for the ARCTIC voices

Method Summary

UtteranceProcessor

getUnitSelector() Returns the unit selector to be used by this voice.

Methods inherited from class com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.CMUClusterUnitVoice

getDatabase, getPitchmarkGenerator, getUnitConcatenator, setupFeatureSet, toString

Methods inherited from class com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.CMUVoice

getAudioOutput, getPhoneFeature, getPostLexicalAnalyzer, getTokenizer, loader, setupFeatureProcessors, setupUtteranceProcessors

Methods inherited from class com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice

addFeatureProcessor, allocate, createOutputThread, deallocate, dump, dumpProcessors, endBatch, error, getAge, getAudioPlayer, getDefaultAudioPlayer, getDescription, getDomain, getDurationStretch, getFeatureProcessor, getFeatures, getGender, getLexicon, getLocale, getName, getOrganization, getOutputQueue, getPitch, getPitchRange, getPitchShift, getRate, getResource, getRunTitle, getStyle, getUtteranceProcessors, getVolume, getWaveDumpFile, isDetailedMetrics, isDumpRelations, isDumpUtterance, isLoaded, isMetrics, isVerbose, load, log, processNode, processUtterance, setAge, setAudioPlayer, setDescription, setDetailedMetrics, setDomain, setDumpRelations, setDumpUtterance, setDurationStretch, setGender, setLexicon, setLoaded, setLocale, setMetrics, setName, setOrganization, setOutputQueue, setPitch, setPitchRange, setPitchShift, setRate, setRunTitle, setStyle, setVerbose, setVolume, setWaveDumpFile, speak, speak, speak, speak, startBatch, warn

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

CMUArcticVoice

public CMUArcticVoice(java.lang.String name,
                      Gender gender,
                      Age age,
                      java.lang.String description,
                      java.util.Locale locale,
                      java.lang.String domain,
                      java.lang.String organization,
                      CMULexicon lexicon,
                      java.net.URL database)

Creates a simple cluster unit voice for the ARCTIC voices

Parameters:

name - the name of the voice

gender - the gender of the voice

age - the age of the voice

description - a human-readable string providing a description that can be displayed for the users.

locale - the locale of the voice

domain - the domain of this voice. For example,

organization - the organization which created the voice "general", "time", or "weather".

lexicon - the lexicon to load

database - the url to the database containing unit data for this voice.

Method Detail

getUnitSelector

public UtteranceProcessor getUnitSelector()
                                   throws java.io.IOException

Returns the unit selector to be used by this voice. Derived voices typically override this to customize behaviors. This voice uses a cluster unit selector as the unit selector.

Specified by:

getUnitSelector in interface de.dfki.lt.freetts.ConcatenativeVoice

Overrides:

getUnitSelector in class CMUClusterUnitVoice

Returns:

the post lexical processor

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if an IO error occurs while getting processor