Package com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us

Class CMUClusterUnitVoice

java.lang.Object
com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice
com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.CMUVoice
com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.CMUClusterUnitVoice
All Implemented Interfaces:
Dumpable, UtteranceProcessor, de.dfki.lt.freetts.ConcatenativeVoice
Direct Known Subclasses:
CMUArcticVoice, CMUTimeVoice
public class CMUClusterUnitVoice extends CMUVoice implements de.dfki.lt.freetts.ConcatenativeVoice
Defines voice that does cluster unit selection.

  • Field Details

    • database

      protected URL database

  • Constructor Details

    • CMUClusterUnitVoice

      public CMUClusterUnitVoice(String name, Gender gender, Age age, String description, Locale locale, String domain, String organization, CMULexicon lexicon, URL database)
      Creates a simple cluster unit 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
      database - the url to the database containing unit data for this voice.

  • Method Details

    • getDatabase

      public URL getDatabase()
      Gets the url to the database that defines the unit data for this voice.
      Specified by:
      getDatabase in interface de.dfki.lt.freetts.ConcatenativeVoice
      Returns:
      a url to the database

    • setupFeatureSet

      protected void setupFeatureSet() throws IOException
      Sets up the FeatureSet for this Voice.
      Overrides:
      setupFeatureSet in class CMUVoice
      Throws:
      IOException - if an I/O error occurs

    • getUnitSelector

      public UtteranceProcessor getUnitSelector() throws 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 CMUVoice
      Returns:
      the post lexical processor
      Throws:
      IOException - if an IO error occurs while getting processor

    • getPitchmarkGenerator

      public UtteranceProcessor getPitchmarkGenerator() throws IOException
      Returns the pitch mark generator to be used by this voice. Derived voices typically override this to customize behaviors. There is no default unit selector
      Specified by:
      getPitchmarkGenerator in interface de.dfki.lt.freetts.ConcatenativeVoice
      Overrides:
      getPitchmarkGenerator in class CMUVoice
      Returns:
      the post lexical processor
      Throws:
      IOException - if an IO error occurs while getting processor

    • getUnitConcatenator

      public UtteranceProcessor getUnitConcatenator() throws IOException
      Returns the unit concatenator to be used by this voice. Derived voices typically override this to customize behaviors. There is no default unit selector
      Specified by:
      getUnitConcatenator in interface de.dfki.lt.freetts.ConcatenativeVoice
      Overrides:
      getUnitConcatenator in class CMUVoice
      Returns:
      the post lexical processor
      Throws:
      IOException - if an IO error occurs while getting processor

    • toString

      public String toString()
      Converts this object to a string
      Overrides:
      toString in class CMUVoice
      Returns:
      a string representation of this object