de.dfki.lt.freetts.en.us
Class MbrolaVoice

java.lang.Object
  com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice
      com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.CMUVoice
          de.dfki.lt.freetts.en.us.MbrolaVoice

All Implemented Interfaces:

Dumpable, UtteranceProcessor

public class MbrolaVoice

extends CMUVoice

Defines an unlimited-domain diphone synthesis based voice using the MBROLA synthesis.

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

MbrolaVoice(java.lang.String databaseDirectory, java.lang.String database, float rate, float pitch, float range, 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 an MbrolaVoice.

Method Summary

protected UtteranceProcessor	getAudioOutput() Returns the audio output used by this voice.
java.lang.String	getDatabase() Returns the absolute file name of the Voice database this MbrolaVoice uses.
java.lang.String	getMbrolaBase() Returns the absolute name of the MBROLA directory.
java.lang.String	getMbrolaBinary() Returns the absolute file name of the MBROLA binary.
protected java.lang.String[]	getMbrolaCommand() Returns the command line that invokes the MBROLA executable.
java.lang.String	getRenameList() Returns the absolute file name of the MBROLA phonetic symbols rename table.
protected java.net.URL	getResource(java.lang.String resource) Get a resource for this voice.
protected UtteranceProcessor	getUnitConcatenator() Returns the unit concatenator to be used by this voice.
protected UtteranceProcessor	getUnitSelector() Returns the unit selector to be used by this voice.
java.lang.String	toString() Converts this object to a string

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

getPhoneFeature, getPitchmarkGenerator, getPostLexicalAnalyzer, getTokenizer, loader, setupFeatureProcessors, setupFeatureSet, 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, 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

MbrolaVoice

public MbrolaVoice(java.lang.String databaseDirectory,
                   java.lang.String database,
                   float rate,
                   float pitch,
                   float range,
                   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 an MbrolaVoice.

Parameters:

databaseDirectory - the directory within the MBROLA directory where the voice database of this voice is located

database - the name of the voice database of this voice

rate - the rate of the voice

pitch - the pitch of the voice

range - the range of the voice

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

lexicon - the lexicon to use

Method Detail

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.

Overrides:

getUnitSelector in class CMUVoice

Returns:

the unit selector

Throws:

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

getMbrolaCommand

protected java.lang.String[] getMbrolaCommand()

Returns the command line that invokes the MBROLA executable. The command will be in the form of:

 {mbrolaExecutable} -e -R {mbrolaRenameList} {mbrolaVoiceDB} 
 - -.raw 

getMbrolaBase

public java.lang.String getMbrolaBase()

Returns the absolute name of the MBROLA directory.

Returns:

the absolute name of the MBROLA directory

getMbrolaBinary

public java.lang.String getMbrolaBinary()

Returns the absolute file name of the MBROLA binary.

Returns:

the absolute file name of the MBROLA binary

getRenameList

public java.lang.String getRenameList()

Returns the absolute file name of the MBROLA phonetic symbols rename table.

Returns:

the absolute file name of the rename table

getDatabase

public java.lang.String getDatabase()

Returns the absolute file name of the Voice database this MbrolaVoice uses.

Returns:

the absolute file name of the Voice database

getUnitConcatenator

protected UtteranceProcessor getUnitConcatenator()
                                          throws java.io.IOException

Returns the unit concatenator to be used by this voice. This method constructs the command line with which the MBROLA binary will be called, and initialises the MbrolaCaller accordingly.

Overrides:

getUnitConcatenator in class CMUVoice

Returns:

the unit conatenator

Throws:

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

getAudioOutput

protected UtteranceProcessor getAudioOutput()
                                     throws java.io.IOException

Returns the audio output used by this voice.

Overrides:

getAudioOutput in class CMUVoice

Returns:

the audio output used by this voice

Throws:

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

getResource

protected java.net.URL getResource(java.lang.String resource)

Get a resource for this voice. Resources for this voice are located in the package com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.

Overrides:

getResource in class Voice

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Converts this object to a string

Overrides:

toString in class CMUVoice

Returns:

a string representation of this object