I am trying to create acoustic model using auto script but I am getting very strange error in step 2.

It says something like error in HDMan, cat: ./interim_files/monophones1, no such file or directory

and then in the next line something like 

 cat:logs/Step2_HDMan.log no such file or directory

It looks like there is some problem with cat command but I

can`t figure out what and how it is connected to HDMan. And why

there is no monophones1 file when HDMan is supposed to create

it. I have 10 words (non english) in my dictionary and I added 

them all to voxforge lexicon at the begining of file. 

--- (Edited on 2/19/2008 11:42 am [GMT-0600] by Visitor) ---

Hi Jozo,

I really need to see the exact errors to be able to help you out. 

I am assuming you are running the "HTK_Compile_Model.sh" script from the how-to.  The relevant code from this script is as follows:

print_heading "Step 2 - Pronunciation Dictionnary"
	make_wlist_label_file
	make_lexicon
    HDMan -A -D -T 1 -m -w ./interim_files/wlist -e ./input_files -n ./interim_files/monophones1 -i -l logs/Step2_HDMan_log ./interim_files/dict ../../lexicon/voxforge_lexicon > logs/Step2_HDMan.log
	make_monophones0
	echo -e '***Please review the following HDMan output***:\n'
	cat logs/Step2_HDMan_log

Therefore the reason why the cat command is failing is that it can't find the file it is supposed to display to the console.  This is likely caused by problems in the execution of HDMan.

> I have 10 words (non english) in my dictionary and I added them all to

>voxforge lexicon at the begining of file.

HDMan assumes that the dictionary is sorted ... so adding new words to the *beginning* could be the cause of the problem.

In addition, the HTK_Compile_Model.sh script assume English.  You could probably modify it to compile for non-English languages, but then you need to look at creating an HTK tree.hed script for that language.

You might have better luck following the VoxForge Tutorial and creating monophone models (Step 8 in the tutorial), or triphone models (Step 9).  

To be able to complete Step 10 and create tied-state acoustic models you need a tree.hed script for your language.  For more information on how to create a tree.hed file for a new language, see the following links:

• Step 10 - Making Tied-State Triphones (from the Tutorial, where you create your Acoustic Model manually)
• nsh's overview of how to create clustered triphone "questions" for Sphinx and HTK for new languages
• Ticket #153 - htk error on step 10, and a related thread in the forums
  
• my post on this Thread on "Error when compiling model" where I discuss Creating clustered triphone "questions"

Ken 

--- (Edited on 2/19/2008 2:29 pm [GMT-0500] by kmaclean) ---

HDMan command creates wlist (./interim_files/wlist) normally.

>HDMan assumes that the dictionary is sorted ... so adding new >words to the *beginning* could be the cause of the problem. In >addition, the HTK_Compile_Model.sh script assume English.

Does this really have any difference? Because, we use english phonemes to "describe" words. Other thing, we moved our new words from file, leaving default dictionary, and it doesn't work either.

When i made manualy monophones1 file(empty),  HDMan commadn deletes it. The Step2_HDMan_log is created, but its empty.

--- (Edited on 2/20/2008 6:07 am [GMT-0600] by Visitor) ---

>HDMan command creates wlist (./interim_files/wlist) normally.

HDMan does not create the wlist file, it uses it to create the dict and monophones1 files.

Try following Step 2 of the Tutorial and see if that helps.  The tutorial basically does everything the script does, but manually, and with explanations.

Ken 

--- (Edited on 2/20/2008 8:47 pm [GMT-0500] by kmaclean) ---

Here is the error:

-e      init
=====================================

-e      Step 1 - Task Grammar
=====================================

-e already completed manually


-e      Step 2 - Pronunciation Dictionnary
=====================================
sorting:./interim_files/wlist to:./interim_files/wlist1
Found voxforge_lexicon
./HTK_Compile_Model.sh: 225: HDMan: not found
cat: ./interim_files/monophones1: No such file or directory
-e ***Please review the following HDMan output***:

cat: logs/Step2_HDMan_log: No such file or directory
 

--- (Edited on 2/21/2008 4:40 am [GMT-0600] by Visitor) ---