marytts.unitselection.select.viterbi

Class ViterbiCandidate

java.lang.Object

marytts.unitselection.select.viterbi.ViterbiCandidate

All Implemented Interfaces:

Comparable<ViterbiCandidate>

public class ViterbiCandidate
extends Object
implements Comparable<ViterbiCandidate>

Represents a candidate for the Viterbi algorthm. Each candidate knows about its next candidate, i.e. they can form a queue.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
ViterbiCandidate(Target target, Unit unit, TargetCostFunction tcf)

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	compareTo(ViterbiCandidate o) Compare two candidates so that the one with the smaller target cost is considered smaller.
ViterbiPath	getBestPath() Gets the best path leading to this candidate
ViterbiCandidate	getNext() Gets the next candidate in the queue
Target	getTarget() Gets the target of this candidate
double	getTargetCost() Calculates and returns the target cost for this candidate
Unit	getUnit() Gets the index of this
void	setBestPath(ViterbiPath bestPath) Sets the currently best path leading to this candidate.
void	setNext(ViterbiCandidate next) Sets the next candidate in the queue
String	toString() Converts this object to a string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ViterbiCandidate

public ViterbiCandidate(Target target,
                Unit unit,
                TargetCostFunction tcf)

Method Detail

getTargetCost

public double getTargetCost()

Calculates and returns the target cost for this candidate

Returns:

the target cost

getNext

public ViterbiCandidate getNext()

Gets the next candidate in the queue

Returns:

the next candidate

setNext

public void setNext(ViterbiCandidate next)

Sets the next candidate in the queue

Parameters:

next - the next candidate

getTarget

public Target getTarget()

Gets the target of this candidate

Returns:

the target

getUnit

public Unit getUnit()

Gets the index of this

Returns:

the unit index

setBestPath

public void setBestPath(ViterbiPath bestPath)

Sets the currently best path leading to this candidate. Each path leads to exactly one candidate; in the candidate, we only remember the best path leading to it.

Parameters:

bestPath - bestPath

getBestPath

public ViterbiPath getBestPath()

Gets the best path leading to this candidate

Returns:

the best path, or null

toString

public String toString()

Converts this object to a string.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

the string form of this object

compareTo

public int compareTo(ViterbiCandidate o)

Compare two candidates so that the one with the smaller target cost is considered smaller.

Specified by:

compareTo in interface Comparable<ViterbiCandidate>