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

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

All Implemented Interfaces:

Dumpable, UtteranceProcessor

Direct Known Subclasses:

CMUClusterUnitVoice, CMUDiphoneVoice, MbrolaVoice

public abstract class CMUVoice

extends Voice

Provides generic support for a CMU Voice

Field Summary

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

CMUVoice(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)
Creates a simple voice

Method Summary

protected UtteranceProcessor	getAudioOutput() Returns the AudioOutput processor to be used by this voice Derived voices typically override this to customize behaviors.
java.lang.String	getPhoneFeature(java.lang.String phone, java.lang.String featureName) Given a phoneme and a feature name, return the feature
protected UtteranceProcessor	getPitchmarkGenerator() Returns the pitch mark generator to be used by this voice Derived voices typically override this to customize behaviors.
protected UtteranceProcessor	getPostLexicalAnalyzer() Returns the post lexical processor to be used by this voice.
Tokenizer	getTokenizer() Gets a tokenizer for this voice
protected UtteranceProcessor	getUnitConcatenator() Returns the unit concatenator to be used by this voice Derived voices typically override this to customize behaviors.
protected UtteranceProcessor	getUnitSelector() Returns the unit selector to be used by this voice Derived voices typically override this to customize behaviors.
protected void	loader() Called by Voice during loading, derived voices should override this to provide customized loading.
protected void	setupFeatureProcessors() Sets up the FeatureProcessors for this Voice.
protected void	setupFeatureSet() Sets up the FeatureSet for this Voice.
protected void	setupUtteranceProcessors() Sets up the utterance processors for this voice.
java.lang.String	toString() Converts this object to its String representation

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

CMUVoice

public CMUVoice(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)

Creates a simple voice

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

Method Detail

loader

protected void loader()
               throws java.io.IOException

Called by Voice during loading, derived voices should override this to provide customized loading.

Specified by:

loader in class Voice

Throws:

java.io.IOException

setupFeatureSet

protected void setupFeatureSet()
                        throws java.io.IOException

Sets up the FeatureSet for this Voice.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if an I/O error occurs

setupUtteranceProcessors

protected void setupUtteranceProcessors()
                                 throws java.io.IOException

Sets up the utterance processors for this voice. Subclasses should define this method to setup the utterance processors for the voice.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - throws an IOException if an error occurs

getPostLexicalAnalyzer

protected UtteranceProcessor getPostLexicalAnalyzer()
                                             throws java.io.IOException

Returns the post lexical processor to be used by this voice. Derived voices typically override this to customize behaviors.

Returns:

the post lexical analyzer in use by this voice

Throws:

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

getUnitSelector

protected UtteranceProcessor getUnitSelector()
                                      throws java.io.IOException

Returns the unit selector to be used by this voice Derived voices typically override this to customize behaviors.

Returns:

the unit selector in use by this voice

Throws:

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

getPitchmarkGenerator

protected UtteranceProcessor getPitchmarkGenerator()
                                            throws java.io.IOException

Returns the pitch mark generator to be used by this voice Derived voices typically override this to customize behaviors.

Returns:

the pitch mark generator to be used by this voice

Throws:

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

getUnitConcatenator

protected UtteranceProcessor getUnitConcatenator()
                                          throws java.io.IOException

Returns the unit concatenator to be used by this voice Derived voices typically override this to customize behaviors.

Returns:

the Unit concatenator

Throws:

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

setupFeatureProcessors

protected void setupFeatureProcessors()
                               throws java.io.IOException

Sets up the FeatureProcessors for this Voice.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if an I/O error occurs

getPhoneFeature

public java.lang.String getPhoneFeature(java.lang.String phone,
                                        java.lang.String featureName)

Given a phoneme and a feature name, return the feature

Overrides:

getPhoneFeature in class Voice

Parameters:

phone - the phoneme of interest

featureName - the name of the feature of interest

Returns:

the feature with the given name

getAudioOutput

protected UtteranceProcessor getAudioOutput()
                                     throws java.io.IOException

Returns the AudioOutput processor to be used by this voice Derived voices typically override this to customize behaviors.

Specified by:

getAudioOutput in class Voice

Returns:

the audio output processor

Throws:

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

getTokenizer

public Tokenizer getTokenizer()

Gets a tokenizer for this voice

Specified by:

getTokenizer in class Voice

Returns:

the tokenizer

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Converts this object to its String representation

Overrides:

toString in class Voice

Returns:

the string representation of this object