Class G2PRuleReader

java.lang.Object
  G2PRuleReader

public class G2PRuleReader

extends java.lang.Object

A G2PRuleReader reads in an XML representation of a tree that contains grapheme-2-phoneme translation rules. This class handles all graphemes in the XML file (unlike G2PRuleReadProcessor).

Constructor Summary

G2PRuleReader()

Method Summary

java.util.HashMap	makeNodes(java.io.BufferedReader b) Read in XML file and create a decision tree for each grapheme.
java.lang.String	translateString(java.util.HashMap nodesHash, java.lang.String str) Translate a string (!)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

G2PRuleReader

public G2PRuleReader()

Method Detail

makeNodes

public java.util.HashMap makeNodes(java.io.BufferedReader b)
                            throws java.io.IOException

Read in XML file and create a decision tree for each grapheme.

Parameters:

b - BufferedReader that reads the XML file.

Returns:

HashMap of (grapheme,decisionTree) pairs.

Throws:

java.io.IOException

translateString

public java.lang.String translateString(java.util.HashMap nodesHash,
                                        java.lang.String str)

Translate a string (!) of graphemes into a string of phonemes. Phonemes are seperated by white space.

Parameters:

nodesHash - a hash map with (grapheme,tree) pairs.

str - the grapheme string to be translated.

Returns:

the resulting phoneme string.