com.sun.speech.freetts.lexicon
Interface LetterToSound

All Known Implementing Classes:

LetterToSoundImpl

public interface LetterToSound

Provides the phone list for words using letter-to-sound rules. The phone list is implementation dependent.

Method Summary

java.lang.String[]

getPhones(java.lang.String word, java.lang.String partOfSpeech) Calculate the phone list for a given word.

Method Detail

getPhones

public java.lang.String[] getPhones(java.lang.String word,
                                    java.lang.String partOfSpeech)

Calculate the phone list for a given word. If a phone list cannot be determined, null is returned. The phone list is implementation dependent. The format of the partOfSpeech is also implementation. If the partOfSpeech does not matter, pass in null.

Parameters:

word - the word to get the phone list for

partOfSpeech - the part of speech or null

Returns:

the list of phones for word or null