HTK (a tool for speech recognition ) installation on Ubuntu 10.0.4

[Ric Moore]

On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 21:44 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:

> > It appears he's trying to build from a tarball,
> 
> Yes, obviously - I didn't quote the make command …
> 
> > To do that, he will need all the dev files that the script needs.
> > I'm surprised that ./configure didn't catch the missing lib files
> > and report that lack. Ric
> 
> Well, some projects come without a ./configure and only have a Makefile. 
> Often there is at least a README file which explains which libraries are 
> needed but that doesn't help either because usually it doesn't mention 
> the -dev package names but only the name of the libraries. While the 
> names are similar, it may be difficult to find the correct package 
> anyway.
> 

There's a pile of text-to-speech programs listed but I'm not seeing much
speech recognition. Sphinx is listed, as a speech recognition system.
Transcriber is also listed to handle speech .wav files, but doesn't
mention that it will handle live speech input. 

Good luck!! I'm sure what you are trying to do will be of benefit to
others. Ric

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