I'm getting the following back when I run Julian from the quickstart:

[localhost]$ ./julian -C julian.jconf 

include config: julian.jconf

###### check configurations

###### build up system

Reading in HMM definition...(ascii)...Warning: initial state has more than one arc

Warning: more than one arc to end state

Warning: HMM "sp" has unsupported arc.

SERIOUS WARNING: Transition arc has been modified as below

SERIOUS WARNING: This may cause unintended recognition result

 0.000000e+00 0.000000e+00 1.000000e+00

 0.000000e+00 1.000000e+00 0.000000e+00

 0.000000e+00 0.000000e+00 0.000000e+00

limit check passed

   defined HMMs:  4382

  logical names:  6075 in HMMList

    base phones:    44 used in logical

done

Making pseudo bi/mono-phone for IW-triphone...1026 added as logical...done

Reading in dictionary...

23 words...done

ERROR: head sil word "<s>" not exist in voca

Terminated

Not sure what's up but sample.voca has % NS_B

<s>        sil

% NS_E

</s>        sil

and sample.dict has

0 [<s>] sil

1 [</s>] sil 

do I need to edit something by hand in the other grammar/ files?

thanks, josh 

--- (Edited on 4/5/2008 12:00 am [GMT-0500] by joshuajnoble) ---