 
    VoxForge
Hi,
having some accuracy problems, im still learning how to get everything to come together.
im using this sample audio file http://www.canirun.co.uk/bob.wav
the output im getting is: it's art at larchmont slash reader
expected output: get started with google dot com slash reader
my config (using lattice demo):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
   Sphinx-4 Configuration file
-->
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<!--  biship  configuration file                              -->
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<config>        
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <!-- frequently tuned properties                              -->
    <!-- ******************************************************** --> 
    <property name="absoluteBeamWidth"  value="500"/>
    <property name="relativeBeamWidth"  value="1E-80"/>
    <property name="absoluteWordBeamWidth" value="20"/>
    <property name="relativeWordBeamWidth" value="1E-60"/>
    <property name="wordInsertionProbability" value="0.7"/>
    <property name="languageWeight" value="10.5"/>
    <property name="silenceInsertionProbability" value=".1"/>
    <property name="frontend" value="epFrontEnd"/>
    <property name="recognizer" value="recognizer"/>
    <property name="showCreations" value="false"/>
    
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <!-- word recognizer configuration                            -->
    <!-- ******************************************************** --> 
    
    <component name="recognizer" 
                          type="edu.cmu.sphinx.recognizer.Recognizer">
        <property name="decoder" value="decoder"/>
        <propertylist name="monitors">
            <item>accuracyTracker </item>
            <item>speedTracker </item>
            <item>memoryTracker </item>
            <item>recognizerMonitor </item>
        </propertylist>
    </component>
    
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <!-- The Decoder   configuration                              -->
    <!-- ******************************************************** --> 
    
    <component name="decoder" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.decoder.Decoder">
        <property name="searchManager" value="wordPruningSearchManager"/>
        <property name="featureBlockSize" value="50"/>
    </component>
    
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <!-- The Search Manager                                       -->
    <!-- ******************************************************** --> 
    
    <component name="wordPruningSearchManager" 
    type="edu.cmu.sphinx.decoder.search.WordPruningBreadthFirstSearchManager">
        <property name="logMath" value="logMath"/>
        <property name="linguist" value="lexTreeLinguist"/>
        <property name="pruner" value="trivialPruner"/>
        <property name="scorer" value="threadedScorer"/>
        <property name="activeListManager" value="activeListManager"/>
        <property name="growSkipInterval" value="0"/>
        <property name="checkStateOrder" value="false"/>
        <property name="buildWordLattice" value="true"/>
        <property name="acousticLookaheadFrames" value="1.7"/>
        <property name="relativeBeamWidth" value="${relativeBeamWidth}"/>
    </component>
    
    
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <!-- The Active Lists                                         -->
    <!-- ******************************************************** --> 
    
    <component name="activeListManager" 
             type="edu.cmu.sphinx.decoder.search.SimpleActiveListManager">
        <propertylist name="activeListFactories">
        <item>standardActiveListFactory</item>
        <item>wordActiveListFactory</item>
        <item>wordActiveListFactory</item>
        <item>standardActiveListFactory</item>
        <item>standardActiveListFactory</item>
        <item>standardActiveListFactory</item>
    </propertylist>
    </component>
    
    <component name="standardActiveListFactory" 
             type="edu.cmu.sphinx.decoder.search.PartitionActiveListFactory">
        <property name="logMath" value="logMath"/>
        <property name="absoluteBeamWidth" value="${absoluteBeamWidth}"/>
        <property name="relativeBeamWidth" value="${relativeBeamWidth}"/>
    </component>
    
    <component name="wordActiveListFactory" 
             type="edu.cmu.sphinx.decoder.search.PartitionActiveListFactory">
        <property name="logMath" value="logMath"/>
        <property name="absoluteBeamWidth" value="${absoluteWordBeamWidth}"/>
        <property name="relativeBeamWidth" value="${relativeWordBeamWidth}"/>
    </component>
    
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <!-- The Pruner                                               -->
    <!-- ******************************************************** --> 
    <component name="trivialPruner" 
                type="edu.cmu.sphinx.decoder.pruner.SimplePruner"/>
    
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <!-- TheScorer                                                -->
    <!-- ******************************************************** --> 
    <component name="threadedScorer" 
                type="edu.cmu.sphinx.decoder.scorer.ThreadedAcousticScorer">
        <property name="frontend" value="${frontend}"/>
    </component>
    
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <!-- The linguist  configuration                              -->
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    
    <component name="lexTreeLinguist" 
                type="edu.cmu.sphinx.linguist.lextree.LexTreeLinguist">
        <property name="logMath" value="logMath"/>
        <property name="acousticModel" value="wsj"/>
        <property name="languageModel" value="trigramModel"/>
        <property name="dictionary" value="dictionary"/>
        <property name="addFillerWords" value="false"/>
        <property name="fillerInsertionProbability" value="1E-10"/>
        <property name="generateUnitStates" value="false"/>
        <property name="wantUnigramSmear" value="true"/>
        <property name="unigramSmearWeight" value="1"/>
        <property name="wordInsertionProbability" 
                value="${wordInsertionProbability}"/>
        <property name="silenceInsertionProbability" 
                value="${silenceInsertionProbability}"/>
        <property name="languageWeight" value="${languageWeight}"/>
        <property name="unitManager" value="unitManager"/>
    </component>    
    
    
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <!-- The Dictionary configuration                            -->
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <component name="dictionary" 
        type="edu.cmu.sphinx.linguist.dictionary.FastDictionary">
        <property name="dictionaryPath"
                  value="/Users/Stewart/Desktop/voxforge-en-0.4/voxforge-en-0.4/etc/cmudict.0.7a"/>
        <property name="fillerPath" 
              value="/Users/Stewart/Desktop/voxforge-en-0.4/voxforge-en-0.4/etc/voxforge_en_sphinx.filler"/>
        <property name="addSilEndingPronunciation" value="false"/>
        <property name="wordReplacement" value="<sil>"/>
        <property name="unitManager" value="unitManager"/>
    </component>
    
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <!-- The Language Model configuration                         -->
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <component name="trigramModel" 
          type="edu.cmu.sphinx.linguist.language.ngram.large.LargeTrigramModel">
        <property name="unigramWeight" value=".5"/>
        <property name="maxDepth" value="3"/>
        <property name="logMath" value="logMath"/>
        <property name="dictionary" value="dictionary"/>
        <property name="location"
         value="/Users/Stewart/Desktop/voxforge-en-0.4/voxforge-en-0.4/etc/lm_giga_64k_nvp_3gram.lm.DMP"/>
    </component>
    
    
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <!-- The acoustic model configuration                         -->
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <component name="wsj"
               type="edu.cmu.sphinx.linguist.acoustic.tiedstate.TiedStateAcousticModel">
        <property name="loader" value="wsjLoader"/>
        <property name="unitManager" value="unitManager"/>
    </component>
    <component name="wsjLoader" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.linguist.acoustic.tiedstate.Sphinx3Loader">
        <property name="logMath" value="logMath"/>
        <property name="unitManager" value="unitManager"/>
        <property name="location" value="/Users/Stewart/Desktop/voxforge-en-0.4/voxforge-en-0.4/model_parameters/voxforge_en_sphinx.cd_cont_5000"/>
    </component>
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <!-- The unit manager configuration                           -->
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <component name="unitManager" 
        type="edu.cmu.sphinx.linguist.acoustic.UnitManager"/>
    
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <!-- The frontend configuration                               -->
    <!-- ******************************************************** -->
    
    <component name="epFrontEnd" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.FrontEnd">
        <propertylist name="pipeline">
            <item>audioFileDataSource </item>
            <item>dataBlocker </item>
            <item>speechClassifier </item>
            <item>speechMarker </item>
            <item>nonSpeechDataFilter </item>
            <item>preemphasizer </item>
            <item>windower </item>
            <item>fft </item>
            <item>melFilterBank </item>
            <item>dct </item>
            <item>liveCMN </item>
            <item>featureExtraction </item>
            <item>featureTransform</item>
        </propertylist>
    </component>
    
    <component name="melFilterBank" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.frequencywarp.MelFrequencyFilterBank">
        <property name="numberFilters" value="40"/>
        <property name="minimumFrequency" value="130"/>
        <property name="maximumFrequency" value="6800"/>
    </component>
    
    <component name="featureTransform" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.feature.FeatureTransform">
      <property name="loader" value="wsjLoader"/>
    </component>
    <component name="audioFileDataSource" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.util.AudioFileDataSource"/>
    <component name="microphone" 
                type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.util.Microphone">
        <property name="closeBetweenUtterances" value="false"/>
    </component>
    <component name="dataBlocker" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.DataBlocker"/>
    <component name="speechClassifier"
                type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.endpoint.SpeechClassifier">
        <property name="threshold" value="13"/>
    </component>
    
    <component name="nonSpeechDataFilter" 
                type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.endpoint.NonSpeechDataFilter"/>
    
    <component name="speechMarker" 
                type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.endpoint.SpeechMarker">
        <property name="speechTrailer" value="50"/>
    </component>
    
    <component name="preemphasizer"
        type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.filter.Preemphasizer"/>
    
    <component name="windower" 
    type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.window.RaisedCosineWindower"/>
    
    <component name="fft" 
        type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.transform.DiscreteFourierTransform"/>
    
    <!--<component name="melFilterBank" 
        type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.frequencywarp.MelFrequencyFilterBank"/>-->
    
    <component name="dct" 
            type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.transform.DiscreteCosineTransform"/>
    
    <component name="liveCMN" 
                type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.feature.LiveCMN"/>
    
    <component name="featureExtraction" 
        type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.feature.DeltasFeatureExtractor"/>
    
    <!-- ******************************************************* -->
    <!--  monitors                                               -->
    <!-- ******************************************************* -->
    
    <component name="accuracyTracker" 
                type="edu.cmu.sphinx.instrumentation.BestPathAccuracyTracker">
        <property name="recognizer" value="${recognizer}"/>
        <property name="showRawResults" value="true"/>
        <property name="showAlignedResults" value="true"/>
    </component>
    
    <component name="memoryTracker" 
                type="edu.cmu.sphinx.instrumentation.MemoryTracker">
        <property name="recognizer" value="${recognizer}"/>
    <property name="showDetails" value="false"/>
    <property name="showSummary" value="false"/>
    </component>
    
    <component name="speedTracker" 
                type="edu.cmu.sphinx.instrumentation.SpeedTracker">
        <property name="recognizer" value="${recognizer}"/>
        <property name="frontend" value="${frontend}"/>
    <property name="showDetails" value="false"/>
    </component>
    
    <component name="recognizerMonitor" 
                type="edu.cmu.sphinx.instrumentation.RecognizerMonitor">
        <property name="recognizer" value="${recognizer}"/>
        <propertylist name="allocatedMonitors">
            <item>configMonitor </item>
        </propertylist>
    </component>
    
    <component name="configMonitor" 
                type="edu.cmu.sphinx.instrumentation.ConfigMonitor">
        <property name="showConfig" value="false"/>
    </component>
    
    
    <!-- ******************************************************* -->
    <!--  Miscellaneous components                               -->
    <!-- ******************************************************* -->
    
    <component name="logMath" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.util.LogMath">
        <property name="logBase" value="1.0001"/>
        <property name="useAddTable" value="true"/>
    </component>
</config>
--- (Edited on 11/10/2011 6:49 am [GMT-0600] by ) ---
ok im starting to get it, i've changed the config to:
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
    <!-- frequently tuned properties                              -->
    <!-- ******************************************************** --> 
    <property name="absoluteBeamWidth"  value="500"/>
    <property name="relativeBeamWidth"  value="1E-80"/>
    <property name="absoluteWordBeamWidth" value="20"/>
    <property name="relativeWordBeamWidth" value="1E-60"/>
    <property name="wordInsertionProbability" value="0.2"/>
    <property name="languageWeight" value="4"/>
    <property name="silenceInsertionProbability" value=".1"/>
    <property name="frontend" value="epFrontEnd"/>
    <property name="recognizer" value="recognizer"/>
    <property name="showCreations" value="false"/>
and i now get: get started at gogel ah tromp slash reader 
do i simply add:
GOOGLE.COM G OW G AH L D AA T K AA M
to the dictionary (to get it to recignise google.com)? I tryed it but it doesn't seem to work...do i also have to include it in the arpa language model as well (google.com)?
thanks.
--- (Edited on 11/10/2011 6:59 pm [GMT-0600] by ) ---
 > do i also have to include it in the arpa language model as well (google.com)? Yes I also recommend you to read a tutorial which explains all the problems like you are asking about
--- (Edited on 11/16/2011 03:47 [GMT+0300] by nsh) ---