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-You may want to install the Hidden Markov Model Toolkit (HTK) which is
-covered by a license which does not permit free distribution. However,
-you need HTK if you want to train your acoustic model. You can obtain
-HTK from here (but only after registering): http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/
-
-If you are creating solutions which will be used by more than one user, or
-simply don't have the time to train the system, you can use static base models.
-Static models are used as-is and are not modified by simon in any way.
-Because of this, it is important that the selected base model matches your
-voice as closely as possible.
-
-Even if you use a static model, you NEED to get an acoustic model from the web.
-You can download some prebuilt models at http://www.voxforge.org/
-
-BEGINNER GUIDE:
-If you are a beginner and you don't know exactly how a speech recognition works,
-but want just to enable this "cool feature", you may want to follow these steps
-(static model), in order to make simon operative (English).
-
-This is to help you to your first approach to this program, next you will
-be able to customize more and more!
-
- 0. Browse acoustic models from
- http://www.repository.voxforge1.org/downloads/Nightly_Builds/current/
- Download "HTK_AcousticModel-2010-12-16_16kHz_16bit_MFCC_O_D.tgz"
- 1. Uncompress the model where you want.
- 2. Run "ksimond" (not from root). You need to have the daemon simond running.
- 3. Configure "simond". (ksimond -> configuration -> simond). Add a username and a
- password which are going to be used by simon.
- 4. Run "simon". An assistant will appear. Click "Next" once to jump to "Scenarios"
- section of the assistant.
- 5. Get some scenario. You need at least one, download a scenario in English.
- 6. Configure base model. Choose "Static model" type. From the uncompressed acoustic
- model of step 1 choose:
- - "hmmdefs" file for HMM definition
- - "tiedlist" file for Tiedlist
- - "macros" file for Macros
- - "stats" file for Stats
- Click "Ok", then "Next".
- 7. "Server" and "Sound devices" sections configuration depends on what hardware
- and software you're going to use.
- You can safely just press "Next" to leave them unchanged.
- 8. Adjust the volume of your microphone (or any input device you're going to use)
- I suggest you to get the rumor at few percentage (3%-4%) and to get
- "Volume correct" while speaking (I boosted my microphone for that)
- 9. Optionally perform a training of speechable texts of your scenario to put your
- voice in training data for a better recognition.
-10. Speak!
-