Re: sphinx2-continuous, LMs, status

[robert b <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

--- Jonathan Young <http://www.attbi.com/~Jonathan_Young> wrote:
> Robert -
> 
> I do have several other life issues (a 1.5-year old with developing asthma)
> which are taking up more time that I would like, so I haven't been able to
> devote as much time to this project as I would like to be able to.  But
> here's the status report:
> 
> I still am planning on joining xvoice-sphinx and sending messages to the
> sphinx folks about running from a file under Win2000.

OK.  You'll need to be a sourceforge member to post on the forums.

> I still have not found any FE code (for any platform) which reads from a
> file except for the sphinx2-allphone code, which is broken for other reasons
> (requires context-independent phoneme models).  Can you clarify (again)
> how -adcin TRUE works?  I feel that this is probably an unproductive avenue
> of attack...

Let me look into this further -- I'll get back to you about this.

> That leaves remote debugging, for which there are two possibilities.  First,
> I have build a language model (lm3) which contains the words <s> and </s>,
> per my understanding.  I could download this to either you or Jessica's
> machine or to xvoice.sourceforge.net - it's otherwise "the same", so it's
> 95MB uncompressed or 25MB compressed.

If you are a sourceforge member, please tell me or Jessica your id and one of us will add you to
the xvoice-sphinx project.  Once we do that, you can upload files there to your heart's content.

> Second, I am attaching a patch file (output of diff) for you.  If you can
> apply this to the file lm_3g.c, you should be able to run with the LM I sent
> previously (lm1b).    Are you willing to try this?  Perhaps a small amount
> of both of our time will succeed where I do not currently have more time to
> apply...

I'll do this, but I may not get to it 'til later today or perhaps tomorrow.

> --- Jonathan
> 
> (And thanks for the nagging ;-)
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "robert b" <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
> To: "Jonathan Young" <http://www.attbi.com/~Jonathan_Young>
> Cc: "Jessica Perry Hekman" <http://www.arborius.net/~jphekman>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 2:27 PM
> Subject: sphinx2-continuous, LMs, status
> 
> > Jessica suggested that I contact you.
> >
> > Did you ever get sphinx2-demo or sphinx2-test or sphinx2-simple to work on
> > your Cygwin/Windows
> > machine?  If not, what can I do to help you to get this working?  I can
> > certainly post to the
> > CMUSphinx sourceforge forum if you'd like.
> >
> > Also, did you get a chance to rebuild the LM again?  (Unfortunately, I for
> > got the exact issue
> > involved with this.)
> >
> > If you got a new job which is eating up all your time or you just don't
> > have time to work on
> > Sphinx-related stuff, please tell us.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > P.S. I'm working on the timealign stuff and am making progress slowly.  I
> > think, however, that a
> > spiffy, new LM will get more bang-for-the-buck at this point.