Hi :

I want to use HTK for handwriting recognition. I used htkwrite function in matlab to convert my data to a htkfile. I used HInit and my prototype was like this:

~o

<VecSize> 1 <USER>

<BeginHMM>

<NumStates> 5

<State> 2

<Mean> 1

-2.5692

<Variance> 1

2.8557

<State> 3

<Mean> 1

0.90271

<Variance> 1

2.6101

<State> 4

<Mean> 1

-2.4921

<Variance> 1

2.4246

<TransP> 5

0 1 0 0 0

0 0.1 0.9 0 0

0 0 0.1 0.9 0

0 0 0 0.1 0.9

0 0 0 0 0

<EndHMM>

I got this error:

HMM Def Error: GetToken: Symbol expected at line 1/col 2/char 1

  ERROR [+7050]  HMError:

Can anyone tell me what the problem is?

hi shohre

what's your full command of HInit?

I think you must define ~h in 2th line!
this is a standard prototype oh HMM: 

~o <VecSize> 25 <MFCC_0_D_N_Z>
~h "proto"
<BeginHMM>
  <NumStates> 5
  <State> 2
    <Mean> 25
      0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0  
    <Variance> 25
      1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 
 <State> 3
    <Mean> 25
      0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0  
    <Variance> 25
      1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
 <State> 4
    <Mean> 25
      0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 
    <Variance> 25
      1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
 <TransP> 5
  0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
  0.0 0.6 0.4 0.0 0.0
  0.0 0.0 0.6 0.4 0.0
  0.0 0.0 0.0 0.7 0.3
  0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

<EndHMM>