Hi, Adam,

Thanks for your kind information. It seems that
SPRACHcore is not a right tool for me to use, but I
will give it a try for Cigwin.

Thanks very much!

Best,
Frank

--- Adam Janin <janin@...> wrote:

> To the best of my knowledge, we haven't run
> SPRACHcore on Windows
> since Win98. SPRACHcore tools were developed on
> Solaris, and work fine
> on Linux. I believe most of the tools run on Mac OS
> X as well.
>
> Under Windows, your best bet is certainly Cygwin or
> maybe Mingw (Unix
> compatibility libraries for Windows).
>
> Note that SPRACHcore is large and complex, and not
> for the
> faint-hearted. It is also no longer the
> state-of-the-art in speech
> recognition (though it's still rather good at
> everything other than
> "decoding").
>
> Most of the tools have man pages in the
> distribution. The best way to
> see how the tools work together is to look at the
> simplebn script.
> It's a full recognizer, from audio capture to text
> output.
>
> The definitive reference for the hybrid system is
> probably the book
> "Connectionist Speech Recognition: A Hybrid
> Approach" by Bourlard and
> Morgan. For papers on both hybrid and tandem, check
> out the ICSI
> publications page (towards the bottom):
>
>
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/pubs/browse.pl?groupid=000001
>
>
> Good luck,
>
> Adam Janin
> janin@...
>
>
>
> francisspeech <francisspeech@...> writes:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am a new user of SPRACHcore tools, and have a
> few questions to ask:
> >
> > (1) How should I install SPRACHcore under windows
> XP? It seems that
> > there are a lot of packages for the whole tool. Do
> I need to install
> > them one by one? I downloaded the latest version
> > (SPRACHcore-2004-08-26), and read the "README"
> file but couldn't
> > figure out how to do it.
> >
> > (2) By reading through this forum, it seems that
> some packages have
> > been updated to newer versions as compared to the
> one provided from
> > the SPRACHcore download. Can I just replace those
> packages to use the
> > new features?
> >
> > (3) Is there a tutorial documentation about
> connectionist ASR approach
> > using SPRACHcore tools?
> >
> > (4) Regarding using Quicknet3 for "hybrid" ASR or
> "tandem" ASR, are
> > there any documentation or tutorials available?
> >
> > (5) For all of the ICSI speech tools, by any
> chance, is there a
> > distribution of binaries for windows XP?
> >
> > I would really appreciate your kind suggestions
> and helps.
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Frank
>
>
>
>
>


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