import { TextAnalyzer, Sampler, AudioEffect } from './interfaces';
import { TTSSpeaker } from './core/TTSSpeaker';
/**
 * Configuration options for the Animalese Engine.
 */
export interface AnimalVoiceConfig {
    /** Text analyzer used to split and identify phonemes. */
    analyzer: TextAnalyzer;
    /** Provider that supplies the raw audio samples for each phoneme. */
    sampler: Sampler;
    /** Audio effect to apply, typically handles pitch and speed adjustments. */
    effect: AudioEffect;
    /** Time in seconds to delay or pause when encountering a space character. */
    spaceDelay?: number;
    /** Time in seconds to delay or pause when encountering a punctuation character. */
    punctuationDelay?: number;
    /** Array of characters considered as punctuations. */
    punctuations?: string[];
}
/**
 * The core engine that synthesizes text into animal-like speech sounds.
 */
export declare class AnimaleseEngine {
    private readonly config;
    constructor(config: AnimalVoiceConfig);
    /**
     * Creates a TTSSpeaker instance for the given text.
     * @param text The input text to synthesize.
     * @param asInt16 Whether to output Int16Array instead of Float32Array.
     * @returns A TTSSpeaker instance to handle loading resources and streaming synthesis.
     */
    synthesize(text: string, asInt16?: boolean): TTSSpeaker;
    /**
     * Loads the sampler (e.g. fetches and slices the audio sprite file).
     * Must be called and awaited before calling speaker.speak().
     */
    load(): Promise<void>;
}