rita.support
Class RiTokenToWords

java.lang.Object
  rita.support.RiTokenToWords

All Implemented Interfaces:

com.sun.speech.freetts.UtteranceProcessor

public class RiTokenToWords
extends java.lang.Object
implements com.sun.speech.freetts.UtteranceProcessor

Converts the tokens (in English words) in an Utterance into a list of words which are placed back into the Utterance. Usually, the tokens that gets expanded are numbers like "23" (to "twenty" "three").

* It translates the following code from flite:
lang/usenglish/us_text.c

Constructor Summary

RiTokenToWords(com.sun.speech.freetts.cart.CART usNumbersCART, com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.PronounceableFSM prefixFSM, com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.PronounceableFSM suffixFSM)
Constructs a default USTokenWordProcessor.

Method Summary

com.sun.speech.freetts.Item	getTokenItem() Returns the currently processing token Item.
boolean	isPronounceable(java.lang.String word) Returns true if the given word is pronounceable.
static boolean	kingLike(com.sun.speech.freetts.Item tokenItem) Returns true if the given token item contains a token that is in a king-like context, e.g., "King" or "Louis".
void	processUtterance(com.sun.speech.freetts.Utterance utterance) Processes the utterance
static boolean	sectionLike(com.sun.speech.freetts.Item tokenItem) Returns true if the given token item contains a token that is in a section-like context, e.g., "chapter" or "act".
java.lang.String	toString() Converts this object to its String representation

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

RiTokenToWords

public RiTokenToWords(com.sun.speech.freetts.cart.CART usNumbersCART,
                      com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.PronounceableFSM prefixFSM,
                      com.sun.speech.freetts.en.us.PronounceableFSM suffixFSM)

Constructs a default USTokenWordProcessor. It uses the USEnglish regular expression set (USEngRegExp) by default.

Parameters:

usNumbersCART - the cart to use to classify numbers

Method Detail

getTokenItem

public com.sun.speech.freetts.Item getTokenItem()

Returns the currently processing token Item.

Returns:

the current token Item; null if no item

processUtterance

public void processUtterance(com.sun.speech.freetts.Utterance utterance)
                      throws com.sun.speech.freetts.ProcessException

Processes the utterance

Specified by:

processUtterance in interface com.sun.speech.freetts.UtteranceProcessor

Parameters:

utterance - the utterance contain the tokens

Throws:

com.sun.speech.freetts.ProcessException - if an IOException is thrown during the processing of the utterance

kingLike

public static boolean kingLike(com.sun.speech.freetts.Item tokenItem)

Returns true if the given token item contains a token that is in a king-like context, e.g., "King" or "Louis".

Parameters:

tokenItem - the token item to check

Returns:

true or false

sectionLike

public static boolean sectionLike(com.sun.speech.freetts.Item tokenItem)

Returns true if the given token item contains a token that is in a section-like context, e.g., "chapter" or "act".

Parameters:

tokenItem - the token item to check

Returns:

true or false

isPronounceable

public boolean isPronounceable(java.lang.String word)

Returns true if the given word is pronounceable. This method is originally called us_aswd() in Flite 1.1.

Parameters:

word - the word to test

Returns:

true if the word is pronounceable, false otherwise

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Converts this object to its String representation

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

the string representation of this object