Class CMUTimeVoice

All Implemented Interfaces:
Dumpable, UtteranceProcessor, de.dfki.lt.freetts.ConcatenativeVoice

public class CMUTimeVoice extends CMUClusterUnitVoice
Defines limited domain synthesis voice that specializes in telling the time. This is based on data created by the example time domain voice in FestVox.
  • Constructor Details

    • CMUTimeVoice

      public CMUTimeVoice(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

    • getPostLexicalAnalyzer

      protected UtteranceProcessor getPostLexicalAnalyzer() throws IOException
      The FestVox voice does not take advantage of any post lexical processing. As a result, it doesn't end up getting certain units that are expected by the typical post lexical processing. For example, if "the" is followed by a word that begins with a vowel, the typical post lexical processing will change its pronunciation from "dh ax" to "dh iy". We don't want this in this voice.
      Overrides:
      getPostLexicalAnalyzer in class CMUVoice
      Returns:
      the post lexical analyzer in use by this voice
      Throws:
      IOException - if an IO error occurs while getting processor
    • toString

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