• See Ivan A. Uemlianin's blog site article:  Compiling HTK 3.4 on Windows XP -  covers compilation with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition;

• Arlindo Vega has a webpage on compiling HTK with Visual Studio 6 (VC6), Visual Studio .NET 2003 (VC7) and Visual Studio 2005 (VC8)

when i am trying to install htk then after

./configure --prefix=/home/rahul/speech/htk/          typing this it is showing permission denied. i tried wid root also bt the same message it is showing.

plz say what i sud do nw.

First run your build script then grabe /tmp/htk/HLMTools/Makefile, on line 77 remove 8 spaces and hit tab, drop file in your build directory and remove and cat it in after configure problem solve ! see part of my build script

./configure    --prefix=$PKG/usr/ \
        --sysconfdir=/etc \
        --localstatedir=/var \
        --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
        --disable-static \
        --mandir=/usr/man \
        --build=$CHOST-mos-linux

# this is were you remove and add Makefile
rm /tmp/htk/HLMTools/Makefile || exit 1
cat $CWD/Makefile > /tmp/htk/HLMTools/Makefile || exit 1

make $JOBS
make all
make install

Make with gcc-4.5.3 fails but I build it with older version of gcc (have backwards compat libs since 01-01-2000! For those depleted software)

Hope my english is good enought for you to grab it

i am adding

PATH=/Julius/bin:/HTK/HTK-3.4.1/htk:$PATH
export PATH

this path to bash.bashrc file but i am not able to install neither htk nor julian

anyone please help me for this..

HTK is now ready to be built.

Type "make all" to build the HTK libraries
and tools.

Then "make install" to install them.

The tools will be installed in /home/ravi/bin/htk/bin

Build notes: Language Modelling tools will be
built. HDecode will not be built. You can build
it manually later by running 'make hdecode
install-hdecode'

**************************************************
ravi@ubuntu:~/bin/htk$ make all
(cd HTKTools && make all) \
      || case "" in *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac;
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ravi/bin/htk/HTKTools'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ravi/bin/htk/HTKTools'
(cd HLMTools && make all) \
      || case "" in *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac;
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ravi/bin/htk/HLMTools'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ravi/bin/htk/HLMTools'

Dear all,

I am trying to install HTK under ubuntu 10.04, and following the steps given above, i found a trouble. 

When trying to install the compatibilty for gcc 3.4 (yum install compat-gcc-34-c++ compat-gcc-34) i get the following: 

#nicolas@lepra:~/All/HTK/htk$ sudo yum install compat-gcc-34 compat-#gcc-34-c++

#[sudo] password for nicolas: 

#Configurando el proceso de instalación

#No existe disponible ningún paquete compat-gcc-34.

#No existe disponible ningún paquete compat-gcc-34-c++.

#Nada para hacer

What means that aparently it doesn't find the package... 

Please i need some help!!!! thanks a lot

I have tried to run the demo to test the HTK by VoxFroge under Cygwin but when I run the follwoign command:

$ cd HTKDemo

$ perl runDemo.pl configs/monPlainM1S1.dcf

I get the following error message:

"must be in directory HTKDemo to run this script"

while I am still in this directory:

"/HTK/HTK-samples-3.3/samples/HTKDemo" and when I use pwd command to get current directory, it gives the same path.

What could be the problem?

Thank you in advance;

Regards.

Hi,

I have frequently tried to install Cygwin on Windows 7 32 bit but each time I try, Cygwin fails to finalize the installation and it just stalls in 99%. At the end,, theres no Cygwin shell. Any idea what the problem might be?

Thank you!

Hello guys,

I have tried to run the demo to test the HTK by VoxFroge under Cygwin but when I run the follwoign command:

$ cd HTKDemo

$ ./runDemo configs/monplainM1S3

I get the following error message:

"must be in directory HTKDemo to run this script"

It is odd as when I run it, i am already in the directory HTKDemo!

Any idea what might be wrong?

The installation went totally fine and I did test it by running both "HVite" and "julian". even the gui interface appears by running "HSlab a_name.sig"

I appreciate your help

I have followed all th esteps but yet cant run HTK. when I type HVite, I get an error message saying: command not found. I feel perhaps there might be something wrong with the say I have added the Path. I just did what was said. Julian does work though. Any comments?

Thanks

My 'make all' (OpenSUSE 11.4) stopped with an error about spaces and tabs in a Makefile.

It was line 77 in HLMTools/Makefile - I edited this file to replace a bunch of spaces with a tab at the beginning of that line and now it works. I think you have to do this each time you do a configure since Makefile is autogenerated each time.

gcc 4.5 works no problem on this version of HTK.

Hi,

I downloaded Julius-4.1.5 for windows. But there is no Julian exe in the bin directory, however there are julius exes.

I configured environment vairables and can actually run julies. But I cant run Juilan.

What may the problem be? Thanks.

I tip ./configure and run ok. Later:

pablo@pablo-desktop:~/Escritorio/Proyecto/Hoap/HTK/htk4.3.1/htk$ make all
(cd HTKTools && make all) \
      || case "" in *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac;
make[1]: se ingresa al directorio `/home/pablo/Escritorio/Proyecto/Hoap/HTK/htk4.3.1/htk/HTKTools'
make[1]: No se hace nada para `all'.
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/home/pablo/Escritorio/Proyecto/Hoap/HTK/htk4.3.1/htk/HTKTools'
(cd HLMTools && make all) \
      || case "" in *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac;
make[1]: se ingresa al directorio `/home/pablo/Escritorio/Proyecto/Hoap/HTK/htk4.3.1/htk/HLMTools'
make[1]: No se hace nada para `all'.
make[1]: se sale del directorio `/home/pablo/Escritorio/Proyecto/Hoap/HTK/htk4.3.1/htk/HLMTools'

And i can't do anything. Help me plase!! Thank

im really a windows-man. i've done my best to edit path in bash.bashrc (i even tried to use vi) but i still cannot run julian. then i tried to edit it using the conventional way (using environment variable - path) in windows. at last, i can run julian!

i hope this way is okay, isnt it?

I tried to compile HTK using Ubuntu 10.04. The tutorial says that I only could do this using gcc 3.4. But there is no gcc 3.4 for Ubuntu 10.04, and in the HTK site, it is written that I could use gcc 4 with the newest version of HTK source code. The "configure" was ok, but not "make all". I seek for the problem and has found this website, http://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2009-12/23132.htm, in which uses the "sudo apt-get install libc6-dev g++ gccsudo" "apt-get install libx11-dev" to install some libraries. Now, everything works well!

Hi,

I was trying to download HTK from the link provided in the tutorial. But I was unable to visit that site. It says that the particular website is forbidden. 

Advice me on this.

Thank you.

BR.

KM

I tried several times to download HTK but that link doesn't work. How do I download it ? 

From the HTK mailing list (I have not tried this yet...):

Yes, on 64-bits the GCC compiler use -m64 to generate binary files for 64-bit architecture, also add -L options with the path for the libraries like X11.
That should solve your problems.

Regards,
Vitorio.

Le 2009-12-18 à 13:48, Elias Gerber a écrit :

> -m32 -a

I am running on Mac OS X 10.5.8, and I cannot execute the julian command, saying that it "cannot execute binary file."

I un-tar'ed julius-3.5.2-multipath-linuxbin in where my HTK is installed, and I have added paths for HTK and julius into the $PATH environment variable.  I have checked the permissions for all the files in the julius-3.5.2-multipath-linuxbin/bin directory and they all are "-rwxr-xr-x" so they all should be executable. But I can not execute any of the commands, except for the perl scripts (gram2sapixml.pl, mkdfa.pl, yomi2voca.pl)

Please help!

Thanks,
-bao

1. from Windows Explorer, use a Cygwin editor (such as Vim) to edit:

c:/cygwin/etc/bash.bashrc

and add the following lines:  

There is no bash.bashrc file in etc folder. What am supposed to do now? Did I do something wrong?

From this post: Installing HTK on Microsoft Windows(음성인식 software)

Prerequisites

• HTK has been verified to compile using Microsoft Visual Studio.
• For testing, you will require a Perl interpreter such as ActivePerl.
• You will need a tool such as 7-zip for unpacking the HTK source code archive.
  
• Register on this site by accepting the HTK End User Licence Agreement, then download the latest HTK source code.
• It is helpful if you have some familiarity with using the DOS command line interface, as you will need to interact with it in order to compile, install and run HTK.
• Ensure that your PATH contains C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin

Compilation

1. Unpack the HTK sources using 7-zip.
   
2. Open a DOS command window: Click Start, select Run type cmd at the prompt and click OK.
3. cd into the directory in which you unpacked the sources.
4. cd into the htk directory. Type:

   cd htk

5. Create a directory for the library and tools. Type:

   mkdir bin.win32

6. Run VCVARS32 (it should be in your path, see prerequisites above)
7. Build the HTK Library, which provides the common functionality used by the HTK Tools. Enter the following commands:
   

   cd HTKLib
   nmake /f htk_htklib_nt.mkf all
   cd ..
   

8. Build the HTK Tools
   

   cd HTKTools
   nmake /f htk_htktools_nt.mkf all
   cd ..
   cd HLMLib
   nmake /f htk_hlmlib_nt.mkf all
   cd ..
   cd HLMTools
   nmake /f htk_hlmtools_nt.mkf all
   cd ..
   

Installation

The HTK tools have now been built and are in the bin.win32 directory. You should add this directory to your PATH, so that you can run them easily from the command line in future.

I have Ubuntu 9.04. I couldnt make HTK works on /home/username/bin/htk so I used the ./configure without arguments and so it will be installed on /usr/local/bin instead. After this it works well

I finally got the "make all" command to (seemingly) work.  Now, when I run "make install" I get the following error:

jay@######:~/bin/htk$ make install
(cd HTKTools && make all) \
      || case "" in *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac;
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jay/bin/htk/HTKTools'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jay/bin/htk/HTKTools'
(cd HTKTools && make install) \
    || case "" in *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac;
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jay/bin/htk/HTKTools'
if [ ! -d /jay/bin/htk/bin ] ; then mkdir /jay/bin/htk/bin ; fi
mkdir: cannot create directory `/jay/bin/htk/bin': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [mkinstalldir] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jay/bin/htk/HTKTools'
make: *** [install-htktools] Error 1

I can't find any help for this anywhere, so I'd appreciate any you can offer.  TIA.

-Jay

P.S. I'm running Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex on a 32-bit system.

Okiedokie people, Here are some solutions to a number of problems that I saw people having (myself included):

Alternate Ubuntu Directions for Step 5 above (from a mostly clean Hardy install):
1) You'll need gcc 3.4 (as mentioned)
2) Use synaptic or apt to get: 
 - cpp-3.4 
 - gcc-3.4 
 - gcc-3.4-base
3) Try to run configure.
4) If you see an error like "configure:1799: error: C compiler cannot create executables" then it's probably because you're missing some link libraries. Use synaptic/apt to get:
 - libc6-dev
4) Try to "make all" 
5) If you see an error like "HGraf.c:73:77: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or director", then you need:
 - libx11-dev
6) Now "make all" should succeed.

Hope that helps!
~PST

Some references:
- http://groups.google.com/group/emm-ruby/browse_thread/thread/d1b5dafeb6296d3d?pli=1
- http://anaaman.blogspot.com/2006/01/crt1o-no-such-file-no-such-file-or.html
- http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-49497.html

Hi,

when I want update my path environment variable it gives me error and testing HTK/julius dosen't gives me the expected results.
when I open Cygwin it gives me this:

  bash: $'\r': comand not found
  bash: $'\r': comand not found
  ': not a valid identifier
  bash: $'\r': comand not found

what should I do?

best regards,
Hamid.

I am trying to follow the instructions listed above for installing HTK.   I am using a 32-bit system.  I get as far as running

$./configure --prefix=/home/yourusername/bin/htk-3.4

But when I try to run make all, I get about 800 errors. At the top of the list of errors, my terminal says,

"HGraf.c:73:77: error: X11/Xlib.h: No such file or directory
HGraf.c:74:23: error: X11/Xutil.h: No such file or directory
HGraf.c:75:21: error: X11/Xos.h: No such file or directory
HGraf.c:77:27: error: X11/keysymdef.h: No such file or directory"

and then it has several lines of stuff looking like,

"HGraf.c:87: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘*’ token"

 Does anyone know what's going on here/how I can fix this?

By the way, I coculd not find a module to make my version of GCC compatible with 3.4.  Instead, I simply downloaded GCC 3.4 and edited the Makefile so that it would run GCC 3.4 instead of my new version of GCC.

Thanks!

Hello, 

I am trying to compile HTK-3.4 on Ubuntu 7.10 but I get this error:

 make all

...

/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libX11.a when searching for -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libX11.a when searching for -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [HSLab] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/serg/bin/htk/HTKTools'
make: *** [htktools] Error 1

Any idea what might be wrong?

Thanks in advance,

--Sergey 

Some compile problems with Julius 4.0 on Cygwin have been fixed in Julius 4.0.1. 

I compile julian from source (julius-3.5.2.tar.gz, and then extracts it), because I need julian, not julius, by typing the command as follows:

$./configure --prefix=/home/riset/bin/julius-3.5.2  --enable-julian

The compile didn't work well because there are errors as follows:

$ ./configure --prefix=/home/riset/bin/julius-3.5.2 --enable-julian >a.txt
./configure: line 1033: cmp: command not found
./configure: line 714: cmp: command not found
configure: warning: no iconv, gram2sapixml.pl may not work
./configure: line 1331: cmp: command not found
./configure: line 1203: cmp: command not found
./configure: line 2009: cmp: command not found
configure: warning: not found
configure: warning: libsndfile enables AIFF AU SND NIST format for Julius.
It's available at http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/
./configure: line 3094: cmp: command not found

I don't understand the command "cmp" in "configure" file, because the file is already available. Can you help me? I haven't been able to run julian yet since 3 weeks ago.  Thank you.

~amza