org.axsl.speech
Class SpeechUtility

java.lang.Object
  org.axsl.speech.SpeechUtility

public final class SpeechUtility
extends java.lang.Object

Class containing speech-related utility methods.

References to CSS2 are to the Cascading Style Sheet standard, version 2.0, found at:

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/

References to XSL-FO refer to the eXtensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects standard, version 1.0, found at:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xsl-20011015/

Field Summary

static java.lang.String[]	EMPTY_STRING_ARRAY An array of Strings with zero elements, useful especially as a return value.
static java.lang.String	INPUT_INVALID String value for invalid input.

Method Summary

static java.lang.String[]	cssVoiceFamily(java.lang.String input) Converts a CSS2-style String input for voice-family into a value expected by SpeechServer.selectVoiceCss(String[]).
static java.lang.String[]	foVoiceFamily(java.lang.String input) Same as cssVoiceFamily(String), except input is an XSL-FO-style String.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

INPUT_INVALID

public static final java.lang.String INPUT_INVALID

String value for invalid input.

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Constant Field Values

EMPTY_STRING_ARRAY

public static final java.lang.String[] EMPTY_STRING_ARRAY

An array of Strings with zero elements, useful especially as a return value.

Method Detail

cssVoiceFamily

public static java.lang.String[] cssVoiceFamily(java.lang.String input)

Converts a CSS2-style String input for voice-family into a value expected by SpeechServer.selectVoiceCss(String[]).

Parameters:

input - The CSS2-style voice-family String to be converted. This is a comma-delimited String containing one or more potential voice-family items to be selected. Consult the CSS2 standard for details.

Returns:

A String array with the parsed voice-family items in it. This method never returns "null", but may return an array with zero elements for invalid input.

See Also:

SpeechServer.selectVoiceCss(String[])

foVoiceFamily

public static java.lang.String[] foVoiceFamily(java.lang.String input)

Same as cssVoiceFamily(String), except input is an XSL-FO-style String.

Parameters:

input - The XSL-FO voice-family String to be converted. This is a comma-delimited String containing one or more potential voice-family items to be selected. Consult the XSL-FO standard for details.

Returns:

A String array with the parsed voice-family items in it. This method never returns "null", but may return an array with zero elements for invalid input.

See Also:

cssVoiceFamily(String)