Hello,

I want to train julius for 20 words only. 
1) How much training is sufficient, if I want to generate speaker independent model?
2) How can I train julius for noisy environment?
3) How to specify filler words in grammer file?
4) Is there any way to reject unknown words?
5) How can I generate N-gram file?
6) How can I use -mapunk option available in release 4.1.2 of julius?
7) Which julius options help me to improve accuracy?
8) How can I generate GMM definition file required for -gmm option?

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Hi sagar,

>I want to train julius for 20 words only.

>1) How much training is sufficient, if I want to generate speaker

>independent model?

Depends on many things... for example: the type of application you are planning to create, user accents/dialects, how different are words to be recognized (if they are similar, then more speech required)...

The current Sphinx3 acoustic model uses 140 hours of speech.

You should be able to get away with much less if you are only looking at 20 words - I would *guess* 5-10 hours from at least 100-200 different speakers. 

>2) How can I train julius for noisy environment?

Train acoustic models with speech from the same noisy environment that your target application will operate in:

see these posts for more info:

• What are Best Practices for Collecting Speech for a Free GPL Speech Corpus?

• More on Collecting Speech Audio for Free GPL Speech Corpus

• Comments on: "A good acoustic model needs to be trained with speech recorded in the environment it is targeted to recognize"

>3) How to specify filler words in grammer file?

Train your acoustic model with non-speech sounds, and include such non-speech sounds in your pronunciation dictionary and grammar.

>4) Is there any way to reject unknown words?

see my second post in this thread: Re: One word grammar, always recognized?

>5) How can I generate N-gram file?

• HTK - look at the HTK book;
  
• SRILM - The SRI Language Modeling Toolkit
• CMU-Cambridge Statistical Language Modeling Toolkit.

6) How can I use -mapunk option available in release 4.1.2 of julius?

don't know... best to ask on the Julius forum...

7) Which julius options help me to improve accuracy?

Read through the Julius config file - lots of hints there...

Then trial and error.  Very important to have test files so you can automate your tests, and know when performance improves.

I have used these parameters (from Julian jconf - should be similar in Julius 4.*):

######################################################################
#### Language Model
######################################################################
##
## word insertion penalty
##
-penalty1 5.0        # first pass
-penalty2 20.0        # second pass

##
## For insertion of context-free short-term inter-word pauses between words
##  (multi-path version only)
##
-iwsp            # append a skippable sp model at all word ends
-iwsppenalty -70.0    # transition penalty for the appenede sp models

8) How can I generate GMM definition file required for -gmm option?

best to ask on the Julius forum... likely an HTK tool that creates this.

Ken

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Hi!

I am planing to perform specific project, a model that will recognize just one speaker.

Basically the software will be trained by me and I will be the only person using it.

In such case what kind of training is needed?

Thanks in advance, Alex

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