Label.cpp

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00001 /*
00002         This file is part of ALIZE which is an open-source tool for 
00003         speaker recognition.
00004 
00005     ALIZE is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
00006     it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as 
00007     published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of 
00008     the License, or any later version.
00009 
00010     ALIZE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
00011     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
00012     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
00013     GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
00014 
00015     You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public 
00016     License along with ALIZE.
00017     If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
00018         
00019         ALIZE is a development project initiated by the ELISA consortium
00020         [alize.univ-avignon.fr/] and funded by the French Research 
00021         Ministry in the framework of the TECHNOLANGUE program 
00022         [www.technolangue.net]
00023 
00024         The ALIZE project team wants to highlight the limits of voice
00025         authentication in a forensic context.
00026         The "Person  Authentification by Voice: A Need of Caution" paper 
00027         proposes a good overview of this point (cf. "Person  
00028         Authentification by Voice: A Need of Caution", Bonastre J.F., 
00029         Bimbot F., Boe L.J., Campbell J.P., Douglas D.A., Magrin-
00030         chagnolleau I., Eurospeech 2003, Genova].
00031         The conclusion of the paper of the paper is proposed bellow:
00032         [Currently, it is not possible to completely determine whether the 
00033         similarity between two recordings is due to the speaker or to other 
00034         factors, especially when: (a) the speaker does not cooperate, (b) there 
00035         is no control over recording equipment, (c) recording conditions are not 
00036         known, (d) one does not know whether the voice was disguised and, to a 
00037         lesser extent, (e) the linguistic content of the message is not 
00038         controlled. Caution and judgment must be exercised when applying speaker 
00039         recognition techniques, whether human or automatic, to account for these 
00040         uncontrolled factors. Under more constrained or calibrated situations, 
00041         or as an aid for investigative purposes, judicious application of these 
00042         techniques may be suitable, provided they are not considered as infallible.
00043         At the present time, there is no scientific process that enables one to 
00044         uniquely characterize a person=92s voice or to identify with absolute 
00045         certainty an individual from his or her voice.]
00046         Contact Jean-Francois Bonastre for more information about the licence or
00047         the use of ALIZE
00048 
00049         Copyright (C) 2003-2010
00050         Laboratoire d'informatique d'Avignon [lia.univ-avignon.fr]
00051         ALIZE admin [alize@univ-avignon.fr]
00052         Jean-Francois Bonastre [jean-francois.bonastre@univ-avignon.fr]
00053 */
00054 
00055 #if !defined(ALIZE_Label_cpp)
00056 #define ALIZE_Label_cpp
00057 
00058 #include <new>
00059 #include "Label.h"
00060 #include "alizeString.h"
00061 #include "Exception.h"
00062 
00063 using namespace alize;
00064 
00065 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00066 Label::Label(const String& s)
00067 :Object(), _string(s) {}
00068 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00069 Label& Label::create(const String& l)
00070 {
00071   Label* p = new (std::nothrow) Label(l);
00072   assertMemoryIsAllocated(p, __FILE__, __LINE__);
00073   return *p;
00074 }
00075 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00076 Label::Label(const Label& c)
00077 :Object(), _string(c._string), _srcName(c._srcName) {}
00078 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00079 Label& Label::duplicate() const
00080 {
00081   return clone();
00082 }
00083 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00084 Label& Label::clone() const // private
00085 {
00086   Label* p = new (std::nothrow) Label(*this);
00087   assertMemoryIsAllocated(p, __FILE__, __LINE__);
00088   return *p;
00089 }
00090 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00091 const Label& Label::operator=(const Label& c)
00092 {
00093   if (this != &c)
00094   {
00095     _string   = c._string;
00096     _srcName = c._srcName;
00097   }
00098   return *this;
00099 }
00100 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00101 bool Label::operator==(const Label& c) const
00102 { return (_string == c._string && _srcName == c._srcName); }  
00103 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00104 bool Label::operator!=(const Label& c) const { return !(*this == c); }
00105 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00106 void Label::reset()
00107 {
00108   _string.reset();
00109   _srcName.reset();
00110 }
00111 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00112 void Label::setString(const String& s) { _string = s; }
00113 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00114 const String& Label::getString() const { return _string; }
00115 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00116 void Label::setSourceName(const String& s) { _srcName = s; }
00117 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00118 const String& Label::getSourceName() const { return _srcName; }
00119 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00120 String Label::getClassName() const { return "Label"; }
00121 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00122 String Label::toString() const
00123 {
00124   return Object::toString() + "\n  string   = \'" + _string
00125                                         + "'\n  sourceName = '" + _srcName;
00126 }
00127 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00128 Label::~Label() {}
00129 //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
00130 
00131 #endif // !defined(ALIZE_Label_cpp)