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.