Technically KDE 4.3.95 works too but IMHO it is nicer to check for major version.

If a someone uses KDE 4.3.5 and sees a message that at least KDE 4.3.90 is required he might search for updates to KDE 4.3.x instead of looking for KDE 4.4. This way the message is more clear. If at the point of release, KDE 4.4 is still not wildly available, we will have to work around it anyways (disable some functionality if KDE 4.4 is not found) but I really doubt that…

Greetings,
Peter

Thanks.

Greetings,
Peter

Basically, with the new architecture you organize your vocabulary, grammar, commands, etc. in scenario packages. During compilation you serialize those scenarios to the input files for the HTK / Julius tools.

Those buttons in sam provide the same serialization features and are basically “export to HTK/Julius” buttons. They are not meant to be used as “export” features but rather as a way to intervene at a lower level. sam caters to the power user who wants to tweak their model and wants absolute control over it. By providing the option to change the model files directly _after_ simon does its magic, the process becomes much more transparent and power users really do have full control over their models while the average user still profits from the aforementioned “magic” that will automatically try to make the best out of the provided user input.

Moreover, this way the simon files don’t have to take HTK bugs / limitations into account (those issues are dealt with during synchronization) and simond has more control over what to give to HTK. Thanks to the new architecture, simon now deals much better with often accuring errors and acually fixes a lot of problems on the fly.

Greetings,
Peter

For performance reasons, you need to match the indentation / structure of the XML if you want to fiddle with it. or simon will not parse it correctly.

Thanks!

0 [] sil
1 [] sil
2 [DESIGNER] d ix z ay n er
2 [DESIGNS] d ix z ay n z

And my 200 words German speech model contains exactly these two words (this demonstrates that english pronunciation is possible with Ralf's German dictionary when it comes to foreign words like designer).

It seems that model.dict is the intersection of my previous German active vocabulary with 200 German words and the imported English dictionary from Voxforge.

So something went wrong. I don’t know why the intersection happened. But I think that I should completely delete the following folders:

/home/am3msi/.kde/share/apps/simon
/home/am3msi/.kde/share/apps/simond

After I have done that, I can import the English Voxforge acoustic model again. Or I could try to restore my 200 words German speech model. Or I could start from scratch with my German speech model. I don’t know what I will do next.

It is really good to see that it is possible to use the Voxforge English acoustic model with simon.

Greetings,
Peter

Greetings,
Peter

Sorry ’bout that, I pushed the fix to the master repository.

As you did see the entry in the voxforge forum you know that there seems to be an issue with the adaption process but you are very welcome to try it…

Sam is working again in this revision (I fixed it today).

The current version also god a desperately needed “Clear” button in the vocabulary menu so you can remove all words from your active / shadow vocabulary with one click (and two confirmation dialogs of course).

All in all you will see mostly fixes for the next two weeks (one major feature pending).

Greetings,
Peter