Also, HVite gives no results. 

I am on windows

>step 4 and 5 seem to be missing from the htk install..

are you using: Stable release (3.4.1)?

Thank you for the reply

I am indeed using 3.4.1

What I meant was missing is step 4 and 5  from the windows installation download guide for HTK (http://www.voxforge.org/home/dev/acousticmodels/windows/create/htkjulius/tutorial/download)

I could resolve the problem of missing VCVars32 by reinstalling visual studio,

However I did get another problem later when following the instalation guide on the htk website
(http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/docs/inst-win.shtml)
on step 8 when building the HTK tools and HLM tools I get the following error:

C:\Users\USER\voxforge\bin\HTK-3.4.1\htk\HTKtools> nmake /f htk_htktools_nt.mkf all

Microsoft <R> Program Maintenance Utility Verision 14.00.23506.0
Copyright <C> Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

link /nologo /subsystem:console /incrementl:no /OUT:.. \bin.win32\HMMI Rest.exe HMMI Rest.obj winmm.lib kerne132.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib comdlg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib uuid.lib ..\HTKLib\HTKLib.win32.lib
Link : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'winmm.lib'
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: "C:\Program Files <x86>\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin\link.EXE"' : return code '0x49d'
Stop.

likewise for the HLMTools. The HLMLib seems to be working fine.

>step 4 and 5 seem to be missing from the htk install..

fixed. 

HTK v3.3 Windows does not require compilation, and is enough for this tutorial.  Steps 4 and 5 are for Linux version where HTK must be compiled.

Newer version od HTK (v3.4.1) on Windows must be compiled - I have not tried these out.