edu.stanford.hci.r3.actions.types
Class TextToSpeechAction

java.lang.Object
  edu.stanford.hci.r3.actions.types.TextToSpeechAction

All Implemented Interfaces:

R3Action

public class TextToSpeechAction
extends java.lang.Object
implements R3Action

Speaks some text, if the receiving machine has FreeTTS installed (or some other JSAPI engine).

This software is distributed under the BSD License.

Constructor Summary

TextToSpeechAction()

TextToSpeechAction(java.lang.String wordsToSay)

Method Summary

void	close() Clean up resources.
static TextToSpeechAction	getInstance()
void	initialize()
void	invoke() Remote invocations should use this method.
void	speak()
void	speak(java.lang.String wordsToSpeak)

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface edu.stanford.hci.r3.actions.R3Action

toString

Constructor Detail

TextToSpeechAction

public TextToSpeechAction()

TextToSpeechAction

public TextToSpeechAction(java.lang.String wordsToSay)

Method Detail

getInstance

public static TextToSpeechAction getInstance()

Returns:

close

public void close()

Clean up resources.

initialize

public void initialize()

invoke

public void invoke()

Remote invocations should use this method. Local invocations may also use this, but it might be more efficient to keep a TextToSpeechAction around, initialize it, and then call speak(String) repeatedly.

Specified by:

invoke in interface R3Action

See Also:

R3Action.invoke()

speak

public void speak()

speak

public void speak(java.lang.String wordsToSpeak)

Parameters:

wordsToSpeak -