package net.fortytwo.ripple.audio;
import com.sun.speech.freetts.Voice;
import com.sun.speech.freetts.VoiceManager;
/**
* Simple program to demonstrate the use of the FreeTTS speech
* synthesizer. This simple program shows how to use FreeTTS
* without requiring the Java Speech API (JSAPI).
*
* @author Joshua Shinavier (http://fortytwo.net)
*/
public class Test {
/**
* Example of how to list all the known voices.
*/
public static void listAllVoices() {
System.out.println();
System.out.println("All voices available:");
VoiceManager voiceManager = VoiceManager.getInstance();
Voice[] voices = voiceManager.getVoices();
for (int i = 0; i < voices.length; i++) {
System.out.println(" " + voices[i].getName()
+ " (" + voices[i].getDomain() + " domain)");
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
listAllVoices();
String voiceName = (args.length > 0)
? args[0]
: "kevin16";
System.out.println();
System.out.println("Using voice: " + voiceName);
/* The VoiceManager manages all the voices for FreeTTS.
*/
VoiceManager voiceManager = VoiceManager.getInstance();
Voice helloVoice = voiceManager.getVoice(voiceName);
if (helloVoice == null) {
System.err.println(
"Cannot find a voice named "
+ voiceName + ". Please specify a different voice.");
System.exit(1);
}
/* Allocates the resources for the voice.
*/
helloVoice.allocate();
/* Synthesize speech.
*/
// helloVoice.speak("Thank you for giving me a voice. "
// + "I'm so glad to say hello to this world.");
helloVoice.speak("How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?");
helloVoice.speak("The RDF Schema vocabulary (RDFS)");
/* Clean up and leave.
*/
helloVoice.deallocate();
System.exit(0);
}
}