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Forced-Alignment

GSoC'16 RedHen Labs

This Forced-Alignment Project is designed to run on Case HPC. Please refer to the wiki page for detailed instructions.

##Dependencies The following softwares are required for executing this project. And present in Case HPC.

  • Kaldi
  • SRILM
  • IRSTLM
  • ATLAS
  • SOX
  • PYTHON
  • EDINBURGH SPEECH TOOLS
  • ffmpeg

###Installation of Dependencies

  • Kaldi:

    • git clone https://github.com/kaldi-asr/kaldi.git
    • make -j <num_free_CPUs>
    • cd ../src
    • ./configure.
      Add .../kaldi-trunk/src/*bin,
      .../kaldi-trunk/tools/openfst-1.3.4/src/bin and
      .../kaldi-trunk/tools/irstlm/bin and
      .../kaldi-trunk/tools/srilm/bin to $PATH in ~/.bashrc file.
      The above installation procedure can also be found in http://jrmeyer.github.io/kaldi/2016/01/26/Installing-Kaldi.html

  • SRILM:

    • There is no proper guide for installation on HPC. So, I used 'scp' command to transfer the tar file from my local machine to remote machine.
    • Download the setup from the official site. www.speech.sri.com/projects/srilm/download.html
    • Run from your local machine: scp path/to/file/ username@hpc1:/path/to/file/
    • Untar it using tar -xvcf file.tar.gz

  • IRSTLM:

    • wget <url for download>
    • untar it using tar -xvcf file.tar.gz

  • ATLAS:

    • This dependency is available as a supportive model along with kaldi.

  • SOX:

    • Request your admin to install it using yum install sox.

  • Python:

    • First check whether it is installed using module avail python
    • If not, then install it using module load python.

  • Edinburgh Speech tools:

    • wget http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/speech_tools/
    • Untar it and follow the INSTALL file.

  • ffmpeg:

    • First check for the dependency using module spider ffmpeg.
    • If not, then install it using module load ffmpeg.