/**
* Converts an array of phone symbol strings into a single phone string. If stress is marked on
* input phone symbols ("1" appended), a crude syllabification is done on the phone string.
*/
public String phoneArray2phoneString(AllophoneSet allophoneSet, String[] voicePhones) {
StringBuilder phoneBuf = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < voicePhones.length; i++) {
phoneBuf.append(voicePhones[i]);
}
Syllabifier syllabifier = allophoneSet.getSyllabifier();
return syllabifier.syllabify(phoneBuf.toString());
}
/**
* Phone chain is syllabified. After that, no white spaces are included, stress is on syllable of
* first stress bearing vowal, or assigned rule-based if there is no stress predicted by the tree.
*
* @param phones input phone chain, unsyllabified, stress marking attached to vowals
* @return phone chain, with syllable sepeators "-" and stress symbols "'"
*/
public String syllabify(String phones) {
if (syllabifier != null) return syllabifier.syllabify(phones);
return null;
}