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FliteEngine - An Objective-C speech synthesizer.
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/*             Author:  Alan W Black (awb@cs.cmu.edu)                    */
/*               Date:  January 2001                                     */
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/*  Simple top level program                                             */
/*                                                                       */
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#include "flite.h"
//#include "flite_version.h"
#include "voxdefs.h"

void cst_alloc_debug_summary();

cst_voice *REGISTER_VOX(const char *voxdir);
cst_voice *UNREGISTER_VOX(cst_voice *vox);
/*
static void flite_version()
{
    printf("  version: %s-%s-%s %s\n",
	   FLITE_PROJECT_PREFIX,
	   FLITE_PROJECT_VERSION,
	   FLITE_PROJECT_STATE,
	   FLITE_PROJECT_DATE);
    printf("  CMU Copyright 1999-2005, all rights reserved\n");
}
*/

static void flite_usage()
{
    printf("flite: a small simple speech synthesizer\n");
    //flite_version();
    printf("usage: flite TEXT/FILE [WAVEFILE]\n"
           "  Converts text in TEXTFILE to a waveform in WAVEFILE\n"
           "  If text contains a space the it is treated as a literal\n"
           "  textstring and spoken, and not as a file name\n"
           "  if WAVEFILE is unspecified or \"play\" the result is\n"
           "  played on the current systems audio device.  If WAVEFILE\n"
           "  is \"none\" the waveform is discarded (good for benchmarking)\n"
           "  Other options must appear before these options\n"
           //"  --version   Output flite version number\n"
           "  --help      Output usage string\n"
           "  -o WAVEFILE Explicitly set output filename\n"
           "  -f TEXTFILE Explicitly set input filename\n"
           "  -t TEXT     Explicitly set input textstring\n"
           "  -p PHONES   Explicitly set input textstring and synthesize as phones\n"
           "  --set F=V   Set feature (guesses type)\n"
           "  -s F=V      Set feature (guesses type)\n"
           "  --seti F=V  Set int feature\n"
           "  --setf F=V  Set float feature\n"
           "  --sets F=V  Set string feature\n"
	   "  -b          Benchmark mode\n"
	   "  -l          Loop endlessly\n"
	   "  -pw         Print words\n"
	   "  -ps         Print segments\n"
	   "  -pr RelName  Print relation RelName\n"
           "  -v          Verbose mode\n");
    exit(0);
}

static cst_utterance *print_info(cst_utterance *u)
{
    cst_item *item;
    const char *relname;

    relname = utt_feat_string(u,"print_info_relation");
    for (item=relation_head(utt_relation(u,relname)); 
	 item; 
	 item=item_next(item))
    {
	printf("%s ",item_feat_string(item,"name"));
    }
    printf("\n");

    return u;
}

static void ef_set(cst_features *f,const char *fv,const char *type)
{
    /* set feature from fv (F=V), guesses type if not explicit type given */
    const char *val;
    char *feat;

    if ((val = strchr(fv,'=')) == 0)
    {
	fprintf(stderr,
		"flite: can't find '=' in featval \"%s\", ignoring it\n",
		fv);
    }
    else
    {
	feat = cst_strdup(fv);
	feat[strlen(fv)-strlen(val)] = '\0';
	val = val+1;
	if ((type && cst_streq("int",type)) ||
	    ((type == 0) && (cst_regex_match(cst_rx_int,val))))
	    feat_set_int(f,feat,atoi(val));
	else if ((type && cst_streq("float",type)) ||
		 ((type == 0) && (cst_regex_match(cst_rx_double,val))))
	    feat_set_float(f,feat,atof(val));
	else
	    feat_set_string(f,feat,val);
	/* I don't free feat, because feats think featnames are const */
	/* which is true except in this particular case          */
    }
}

int flite_main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    struct timeval tv;
    cst_voice *v;
    const char *filename;
    const char *outtype;
    int i;
    float durs;
    double time_start, time_end;
    int flite_verbose, flite_loop, flite_bench;
    int explicit_filename, explicit_text, explicit_phones;
#define ITER_MAX 3
    int bench_iter = 0;
    cst_features *extra_feats;

    filename = 0;
    outtype = "play";   /* default is to play */
    flite_verbose = FALSE;
    flite_loop = FALSE;
    flite_bench = FALSE;
    explicit_text = explicit_filename = explicit_phones = FALSE;
    extra_feats = new_features();

    flite_init();

    for (i=1; i<argc; i++)
    {
	if (cst_streq(argv[i],"--version"))
	{
	    //flite_version();
	    return 1;
	}
	else if (cst_streq(argv[i],"-h") ||
		 cst_streq(argv[i],"--help") ||
		 cst_streq(argv[i],"-?"))
	    flite_usage();
	else if (cst_streq(argv[i],"-v"))
	    flite_verbose = TRUE;
	else if (cst_streq(argv[i],"-l"))
	    flite_loop = TRUE;
	else if (cst_streq(argv[i],"-b"))
	{
	    flite_bench = TRUE;
	    break; /* ignore other arguments */
	}
	else if ((cst_streq(argv[i],"-o")) && (i+1 < argc))
	{
	    outtype = argv[i+1];
	    i++;
	}
	else if (cst_streq(argv[i],"-f") && (i+1 < argc))
	{
	    filename = argv[i+1];
	    explicit_filename = TRUE;
	    i++;
	}
	else if (cst_streq(argv[i],"-pw"))
	{
	    feat_set_string(extra_feats,"print_info_relation","Word");
	    feat_set(extra_feats,"post_synth_hook_func",
		     uttfunc_val(&print_info));
	}
	else if (cst_streq(argv[i],"-ps"))
	{
	    feat_set_string(extra_feats,"print_info_relation","Segment");
	    feat_set(extra_feats,"post_synth_hook_func",
		     uttfunc_val(&print_info));
	}
	else if (cst_streq(argv[i],"-pr") && (i+1 < argc))
	{
	    feat_set_string(extra_feats,"print_info_relation",argv[i+1]);
	    feat_set(extra_feats,"post_synth_hook_func",
		     uttfunc_val(&print_info));
	    i++;
	}
	else if ((cst_streq(argv[i],"-set") || cst_streq(argv[i],"-s"))
		 && (i+1 < argc))
	{
	    ef_set(extra_feats,argv[i+1],0);
	    i++;
	}
	else if (cst_streq(argv[i],"--seti") && (i+1 < argc))
	{
	    ef_set(extra_feats,argv[i+1],"int");
	    i++;
	}
	else if (cst_streq(argv[i],"--setf") && (i+1 < argc))
	{
	    ef_set(extra_feats,argv[i+1],"float");
	    i++;
	}
	else if (cst_streq(argv[i],"--sets") && (i+1 < argc))
	{
	    ef_set(extra_feats,argv[i+1],"string");
	    i++;
	}
	else if (cst_streq(argv[i],"-p") && (i+1 < argc))
	{
	    filename = argv[i+1];
	    explicit_phones = TRUE;
	    i++;
	}
	else if (cst_streq(argv[i],"-t") && (i+1 < argc))
	{
	    filename = argv[i+1];
	    explicit_text = TRUE;
	    i++;
	}
	else if (filename)
	    outtype = argv[i];
	else
	    filename = argv[i];
    }

    if (filename == NULL) filename = "-";  /* stdin */
    v = REGISTER_VOX(NULL);
    feat_copy_into(extra_feats,v->features);
    durs = 0.0;

    if (flite_bench)
    {
	outtype = "none";
	filename = "A whole joy was reaping, but they've gone south, you should fetch azure mike.";
	explicit_text = TRUE;
    }

loop:
    gettimeofday(&tv,NULL);
    time_start = (double)(tv.tv_sec)+(((double)tv.tv_usec)/1000000.0);

    if (explicit_phones)
	durs = flite_phones_to_speech(filename,v,outtype);
    else if ((strchr(filename,' ') && !explicit_filename) || explicit_text)
	durs = flite_text_to_speech(filename,v,outtype);
	// commented out for iPhone:
    //else
	//durs = flite_file_to_speech(filename,v,outtype);

    gettimeofday(&tv,NULL);
    time_end = ((double)(tv.tv_sec))+((double)tv.tv_usec/1000000.0);

    if (flite_verbose || (flite_bench && bench_iter == ITER_MAX))
	printf("times faster than real-time: %f\n(%f seconds of speech synthesized in %f)\n",
	       durs/(float)(time_end-time_start),
	       durs,
	       (float)(time_end-time_start));

    if (flite_loop || (flite_bench && bench_iter++ < ITER_MAX))
	    goto loop;

    delete_features(extra_feats);
    UNREGISTER_VOX(v);

    return 0;
}

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Jozef Božek is currently a software engineer at bring-it-together s.r.o. in area of large scale infomation systems and mobile applications development.
He has been developing in C++ nearly full time since 2000, in Java since 2004 and in Objective-C since 2009. He is programming using Java EE SDK, iOS SDK, COM/DCOM, MFC, ATL, STL and so on Smile | :)

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