Click here to Skip to main content
15,896,348 members
Articles / Mobile Apps / iPhone

FliteEngine - Objective-C speech synthesizer

Rate me:
Please Sign up or sign in to vote.
0.00/5 (No votes)
21 Jan 2012BSD1 min read 22.6K   419   10  
FliteEngine - An Objective-C speech synthesizer.
/*************************************************************************/
/*                                                                       */
/*                  Language Technologies Institute                      */
/*                     Carnegie Mellon University                        */
/*                        Copyright (c) 1999                             */
/*                        All Rights Reserved.                           */
/*                                                                       */
/*  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to use and distribute  */
/*  this software and its documentation without restriction, including   */
/*  without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,  */
/*  distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of this work, and to      */
/*  permit persons to whom this work is furnished to do so, subject to   */
/*  the following conditions:                                            */
/*   1. The code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of    */
/*      conditions and the following disclaimer.                         */
/*   2. Any modifications must be clearly marked as such.                */
/*   3. Original authors' names are not deleted.                         */
/*   4. The authors' names are not used to endorse or promote products   */
/*      derived from this software without specific prior written        */
/*      permission.                                                      */
/*                                                                       */
/*  CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY AND THE CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS WORK         */
/*  DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING      */
/*  ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO EVENT   */
/*  SHALL CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY NOR THE CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE      */
/*  FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES    */
/*  WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN   */
/*  AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION,          */
/*  ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF       */
/*  THIS SOFTWARE.                                                       */
/*                                                                       */
/*************************************************************************/
/*             Author:  Alan W Black (awb@cs.cmu.edu)                    */
/*               Date:  December 1999                                    */
/*************************************************************************/
/*                                                                       */
/*  Letter to sound rule support                                         */
/*                                                                       */
/*************************************************************************/

#include "cst_features.h"
#include "cst_lts.h"
#include "cst_endian.h"

static cst_lts_phone apply_model(cst_lts_letter *vals,
				 cst_lts_addr start,
				 const cst_lts_model *model);

cst_lts_rules *new_lts_rules()
{
    cst_lts_rules *lt = cst_alloc(cst_lts_rules,1);
    lt->name = 0;
    lt->letter_index = 0;
    lt->models = 0;
    lt->phone_table = 0;
    lt->context_window_size = 0;
    lt->context_extra_feats = 0;
    lt->letter_table = 0;
    return lt;
}

cst_val *lts_apply_val(const cst_val *wlist,const char *feats,const cst_lts_rules *r)
{
    /* for symbol to symbol mapping */
    const cst_val *v;
    cst_val *p;
    char *word;
    int i,j;

    word = cst_alloc(char,val_length(wlist)+1);

    for (v=wlist,i=0; v; v=val_cdr(v),i++)
    {
	for (j=0; r->letter_table[j]; j++)
	    if (cst_streq(val_string(val_car(v)),r->letter_table[j]))
	    {
		word[i] = j;
		break;
	    }
    }

    p = lts_apply(word,feats,r);
    cst_free(word);

    return p;
}

cst_val *lts_apply(const char *word,const char *feats,const cst_lts_rules *r)
{
    int pos, index, i;
    cst_val *phones=0;
    cst_lts_letter *fval_buff;
    cst_lts_letter *full_buff;
    cst_lts_phone phone;
    char *left, *right, *p;
    char hash;
    char zeros[8];
    
    /* For feature vals for each letter */
    fval_buff = cst_alloc(cst_lts_letter,
			  (r->context_window_size*2)+
			   r->context_extra_feats);
    /* Buffer with added contexts */
    full_buff = cst_alloc(cst_lts_letter,
			  (r->context_window_size*2)+
			  strlen(word)+1); /* TBD assumes single POS feat */
    if (r->letter_table)
    {
	for (i=0; i<8; i++) zeros[i] = 2;
	cst_sprintf(full_buff,"%.*s%c%s%c%.*s",
		    r->context_window_size-1, zeros,
		    1,
		    word,
		    1,
		    r->context_window_size-1, zeros);
	hash = 1;
    }
    else
    {
	/* Assumes l_letter is a char and context < 8 */
	cst_sprintf(full_buff,"%.*s#%s#%.*s",
		    r->context_window_size-1, "00000000",
		    word,
		    r->context_window_size-1, "00000000");
	hash = '#';
    }

    /* Do the prediction backwards so we don't need to reverse the answer */
    for (pos = r->context_window_size + strlen(word) - 1;
	 full_buff[pos] != hash;
	 pos--)
    {
	/* Fill the features buffer for the predictor */
	cst_sprintf(fval_buff,"%.*s%.*s%s",
		    r->context_window_size,
		    full_buff+pos-r->context_window_size,
		    r->context_window_size,
		    full_buff+pos+1,
		    feats);
	if ((!r->letter_table
	     && ((full_buff[pos] < 'a') || (full_buff[pos] > 'z'))))
	{   
#ifdef EXCESSIVELY_CHATTY
	    cst_errmsg("lts:skipping unknown char \"%c\"\n",
		       full_buff[pos]);
#endif
	    continue;
	}
	if (r->letter_table)
	    index = full_buff[pos] - 3;
	else
	    index = (full_buff[pos]-'a')%26;
	phone = apply_model(fval_buff,
			    r->letter_index[index],
			    r->models);
	/* delete epsilons and split dual-phones */
	if (cst_streq("epsilon",r->phone_table[phone]))
	    continue;
	else if ((p=strchr(r->phone_table[phone],'-')) != NULL)
	{
	    left = cst_substr(r->phone_table[phone],0,
			      strlen(r->phone_table[phone])-strlen(p));
	    right = cst_substr(r->phone_table[phone],
			       (strlen(r->phone_table[phone])-strlen(p))+1,
			       (strlen(p)-1));
	    phones = cons_val(string_val(left),
			      cons_val(string_val(right),phones));
	    cst_free(left);
	    cst_free(right);
	}
	else
	    phones = cons_val(string_val(r->phone_table[phone]),phones);
    }

    cst_free(full_buff);
    cst_free(fval_buff);
    
    return phones;
}

static void cst_lts_get_state(cst_lts_rule *state,
			      const cst_lts_model *model,
			      unsigned short n,
			      int rule_size)
{   /* As some OS's require a more elaborate access than a simple lookup */
    memmove(state,&model[n*rule_size],rule_size);
}

static cst_lts_phone apply_model(cst_lts_letter *vals,cst_lts_addr start, 
				 const cst_lts_model *model)
{
    /* because some machines (ipaq/mips) can't deal with addrs not on     */
    /* word boundaries we use a static and copy the rule values each time */
    /* so we know its properly aligned                                    */
    /* Hmm this still might be wrong on some machines that align the      */
    /* structure cst_lts_rules differently                                */
    cst_lts_rule state;
    unsigned short nstate;
    static const int sizeof_cst_lts_rule = 6;

    cst_lts_get_state(&state,model,start,sizeof_cst_lts_rule);
    for ( ;
	 state.feat != CST_LTS_EOR;
	)
    {
/*	printf("%s %c %c %d\n",vals,vals[state.feat],state.val,
	(vals[state.feat] == state.val) ? 1 : 0); */
	if (vals[state.feat] == state.val)
	    nstate = state.qtrue;
	else
	    nstate = state.qfalse;
	/* This should really happen at compilation time */
	if (CST_BIG_ENDIAN)
	    nstate = SWAPSHORT(nstate);

	cst_lts_get_state(&state,model,nstate,sizeof_cst_lts_rule);
    }

    return (cst_lts_phone)state.val;
}

By viewing downloads associated with this article you agree to the Terms of Service and the article's licence.

If a file you wish to view isn't highlighted, and is a text file (not binary), please let us know and we'll add colourisation support for it.

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The BSD License


Written By
CEO bring-it-together s.r.o.
Slovakia Slovakia
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 | :)

Comments and Discussions