pywrapfst

Fork of the official OpenFst python wrapper specially designed for the beer framework .

Requirements

In order to install pywrapfst the following tools are required:

Python 3.0 or greater
Cython
OpenFst installed with the far extension. When installing OpenFst, do NOT install the python extension !
numpy, it is only required to run the example

Though not required, we strongly recommend the use of the Anaconda python distribution as it grealty simplifies depedencies.

In pywrapfst root directory run:

$ python setup.py install

If OpenFst was installed in a non-standard location, set appropriately the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH as in the following example:

$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/path/to/my/library/directory python setup.py install

You can check if the installation was successful by running:

$ python -c "import pywrapfst; print('ok')"

Look at the provided example to see some basic usage.