BAS API

Usage

You need to import nzilbb.bas.BAS; and then instantiate a BAS object:

BAS bas = new BAS();

Once that’s done, you can invoke the function you need, and check/retrieve the results, e.g.:

BASResponse response = bas.MAUSBasic("eng-NZ", new File("my.wav"), new File("my.txt"));
if (response.getWarnings() != null) System.out.println(response.getWarnings());
if (response.getSuccess())
{
   response.saveDownload(new File("my.TextGrid"))
}

API

Below are the basic functions. For convenience functions and other options, check the JavaDoc

• MAUSBasic(String LANGUAGE, File SIGNAL, File TEXT):
  Invokes the MAUSBasic service, which combines G2P and MAUS for forced alignment given a WAV file and a plain text orthrogaphic transcript.
• G2P(String lng, String txt, String outsym, String featset, String oform, boolean syl, boolean stress):
  Invokes the G2P service for converting orthography into phonemic transcription.
• MAUS(String LANGUAGE, File SIGNAL, File BPF, String OUTFORMAT, String OUTSYMBOL):
  Invoke the general MAUS service, with mostly default options, for forced alignment given a WAV file and a phonemic transcription.
• Pho2Syl(String lng, File i, String tier, Boolean wsync, String oform, Integer rate):
  Invoke the Pho2Syl service to syllabify a phonemic transcription.
• TTS(String INPUT_TEXT):
  Convenience method to invoke the MaryTTS German Text-to-speech service with plain text input, with a WAV file as output, using the default voice.
• TextAlign(InputStream i, String cost, InputStream costfile, Boolean displc, String atype):
  Invoke the TextAlign service for aligning two representations of text, e.g. letters in orthographic transcript with phonemes in a phonemic transcription.