marytts.unitselection.concat

Interface UnitConcatenator

All Known Implementing Classes:

BaseUnitConcatenator, FdpsolaUnitConcatenator, HnmUnitConcatenator, OverlapUnitConcatenator

public interface UnitConcatenator

Concatenates the units of an utterance and returns an audio stream

Author:

Marc Schröder, Anna Hunecke

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
AudioInputStream	getAudio(List<SelectedUnit> units) Build the audio stream from the units
AudioFormat	getAudioFormat() Provide the audio format which will be produced by this unit concatenator.
void	load(UnitDatabase database) Initialise the unit concatenator from the database.

Method Detail

load

void load(UnitDatabase database)

Initialise the unit concatenator from the database.

Parameters:

database - database

getAudio

AudioInputStream getAudio(List<SelectedUnit> units)
                          throws IOException

Build the audio stream from the units

Parameters:

units - the units

Returns:

the resulting audio stream

Throws:

IOException - IOException

getAudioFormat

AudioFormat getAudioFormat()

Provide the audio format which will be produced by this unit concatenator.

Returns:

the audio format