marytts.language.en
Class DummyFreeTTSVoice

java.lang.Object
  com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice
      marytts.modules.DummyFreeTTSVoice
          marytts.language.en.DummyFreeTTSVoice

All Implemented Interfaces:

com.sun.speech.freetts.Dumpable, com.sun.speech.freetts.UtteranceProcessor

public class DummyFreeTTSVoice
extends DummyFreeTTSVoice

Defines a dummy voice allowing to use FreeTTS UtteranceProcessors from "outside". Differing from the FreeTTS philosophy, this "voice" does *not* actually call the UtteranceProcessors. It only serves as a collection of data, such as the lexicon, and some reference values.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class marytts.modules.DummyFreeTTSVoice

maryVoice, useBinaryIO

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

DummyFreeTTSVoice()
Creates a simple voice containing a reference to a marytts.modules.synthesis.Voice.

DummyFreeTTSVoice(Voice maryVoice, java.lang.String lexiconClassName)
Creates a simple voice containing a reference to a marytts.modules.synthesis.Voice.

Method Summary

void	initialise(Voice aMaryVoice, java.lang.String lexiconClassName) Creates a simple voice containing a reference to a marytts.modules.synthesis.Voice.
protected void	setupFeatureProcessors() Sets up the FeatureProcessors for this Voice.
java.lang.String	toString() Converts this object to a string

Methods inherited from class marytts.modules.DummyFreeTTSVoice

allocate, getAudioOutput, getMaryVoice, getPhoneFeature, getTokenizer, loader, setupFeatureSet

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

addFeatureProcessor, 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

DummyFreeTTSVoice

public DummyFreeTTSVoice()

Creates a simple voice containing a reference to a marytts.modules.synthesis.Voice. This default constructor must be followed by a meaningful call to initialise().

DummyFreeTTSVoice

public DummyFreeTTSVoice(Voice maryVoice,
                         java.lang.String lexiconClassName)

Creates a simple voice containing a reference to a marytts.modules.synthesis.Voice. This version sets up US English feature processors.

Parameters:

lexiconClassName - if not null, automatically load up the specified lexicon; otherwise, don't load any lexicon.

Throws:

java.lang.RuntimeException - if the class specified by lexiconClassName cannot be instantiated.

Method Detail

initialise

public void initialise(Voice aMaryVoice,
                       java.lang.String lexiconClassName)

Creates a simple voice containing a reference to a marytts.modules.synthesis.Voice.

Overrides:

initialise in class DummyFreeTTSVoice

Parameters:

lexiconClassName - if not null, automatically load up the specified lexicon; otherwise, don't load any lexicon.

Throws:

java.lang.RuntimeException - if the class specified by lexiconClassName cannot be instantiated.

setupFeatureProcessors

protected void setupFeatureProcessors()
                               throws java.io.IOException

Sets up the FeatureProcessors for this Voice.

Overrides:

setupFeatureProcessors in class DummyFreeTTSVoice

Throws:

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

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Converts this object to a string

Overrides:

toString in class DummyFreeTTSVoice

Returns:

a string representation of this object