devs.speechpackage
Class SpeechSynthesizer

java.lang.Object
  java.lang.Thread
      biocell.BioThread
          devs.speechpackage.SpeechSynthesizer

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Runnable

public class SpeechSynthesizer
extends BioThread

Author:

Martin Lukac

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from class java.lang.Thread

java.lang.Thread.State, java.lang.Thread.UncaughtExceptionHandler

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class java.lang.Thread

MAX_PRIORITY, MIN_PRIORITY, NORM_PRIORITY

Constructor Summary

SpeechSynthesizer()
default constructor simply check the ressources available from the speech.properties file

Method Summary

void	addsynthListener(javax.speech.synthesis.SpeakableAdapter sA) add a synthesizer listener, which is useful to check the status of the speech, and some time constants
javax.speech.synthesis.Synthesizer	getEngine()
javax.speech.EngineList	getEngineList()
java.util.List	getSynth()
javax.speech.synthesis.SynthesizerModeDesc	getSynthDesc()
void	run()
void	setEngine(java.lang.String engineName) set a speech synthesizer according to its name

Methods inherited from class biocell.BioThread

getCurrentmood, getMoodParam, getstate, setMood, stepEnergy

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Thread

activeCount, checkAccess, countStackFrames, currentThread, destroy, dumpStack, enumerate, getAllStackTraces, getContextClassLoader, getDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, getId, getName, getPriority, getStackTrace, getState, getThreadGroup, getUncaughtExceptionHandler, holdsLock, interrupt, interrupted, isAlive, isDaemon, isInterrupted, join, join, join, resume, setContextClassLoader, setDaemon, setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler, setName, setPriority, setUncaughtExceptionHandler, sleep, sleep, start, stop, stop, suspend, toString, yield

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

SpeechSynthesizer

public SpeechSynthesizer()

default constructor simply check the ressources available from the speech.properties file

Method Detail

getEngine

public javax.speech.synthesis.Synthesizer getEngine()

Returns:

- main sytnehsizer

getSynthDesc

public javax.speech.synthesis.SynthesizerModeDesc getSynthDesc()

Returns:

main Sytnhesizer Description

getEngineList

public javax.speech.EngineList getEngineList()

Returns:

EngineList - list of registered engines

setEngine

public void setEngine(java.lang.String engineName)

set a speech synthesizer according to its name

Parameters:

engineName - - the name of an engine

run

public void run()

Specified by:

run in interface java.lang.Runnable

Overrides:

run in class java.lang.Thread

getSynth

public java.util.List getSynth()

Returns:

- the list of all synthesizers

addsynthListener

public void addsynthListener(javax.speech.synthesis.SpeakableAdapter sA)

add a synthesizer listener, which is useful to check the status of the speech, and some time constants