A new version of simon has been released. I will now download and install simon-0.2-beta-3-Linux.deb.
Posts Tagged ‘Intrepid Ibex’
simon-0.2-beta-3-Linux.deb
Monday, January 26th, 2009Adding the notification area to the panel
Sunday, January 11th, 2009The notification area on my Ubuntu 8.10 desktop was missing. I didn’t know how to fix this issue, so I made a fresh installation. Now I found out how to add the missing notification area. I just have to add it to the panel:
Add the missing notification area to the panel
So the problem was the missing notification area, not ksimond.
ksimond under Intrepid Ibex
Friday, January 9th, 2009A few days ago, I made a fresh installation of Ubuntu 8.10 on an exchangeable hard drive. The reason is that I couldn’t see the ksimond (or simond?) tray icon on the top right corner of the standard Ubuntu screen. I think that the reason is some kind of misconfiguration of my Ubuntu 8.10 desktop. But I don’t know how to fix this issue. So I decided to make a fresh installation.
A few minutes ago, I downloaded and installed simon-0.2-beta-1-Linux.deb. When I select the menu Applications > Universal Access > ksimond, I am able to see the ksimond tray icon on the top right of the Ubuntu 8.10 screen:
Configure – ksimond
There is an error message that the shared library libsimondsettings was not found. Now I start simon via the menu Applications > Universal Access > simon. Then I quit ksimond. I have to confirm that I am sure that I want to quit ksimond. Then I restart ksimond. But the message that the library libsimondsettings was not found, appears again.
I would like to configure a password and a username with ksimond. But at the moment, this is not possible. Under Win XP, it was possible. Why not under Ubuntu? I hope that will figure that out later.
How can I configure simond?
Monday, January 5th, 2009I just started simond (written with a ‘d’ at the end – it is not simon!) by selecting it from the menu Applications > Universal Access > simond. Then the terminal opened and displayed the following message:
simond(6335) SimondControl::startServer: Starting server listening on port 4444
Then I started simon (written without a ‘d’ at the end), and clicked the Connect button in the top left corner of the simon window.
Error message after pressing the Connect button
And the following text is beeing displayed in the terminal:
simond(6335) ClientSocket::ClientSocket: Created ClientSocket with Descriptor 9
simond(6335) ClientSocket::processRequest: Login requested
simond(6335) ClientSocket::slotSocketError: "The remote host closed the connection
"
simond(6335) SimondControl::connectionClosing: Connection dropped from "127.0.0.1"
simond(6335) ClientSocket::~ClientSocket: Deleting client
I would like to know how I can set the password for simond? I have configured a username/password with simon:
Username is ‘a’ – password is ‘a’
But how can I configure the corresponding username / password for simond? Under Win XP, I was able to achieve this task. But under Ubuntu, I am not yet successful.
sudo apt-get remove julius
Sunday, January 4th, 2009I just removed julius using the terminal:
ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get remove julius
Then I double-klicked on ‘simon-0.2-beta-1-Linux.deb‘, and tried to install the package. But the installation failed, again. The file usr/include/sent/machines.h couldn’t be overwritten because it is also a package in bjulius.dev. So I opened the Synaptic Package Manager. I am now removing ‘julius-voxforge‘ and ‘libjulius-dev‘ with Synaptic Package Manager. And now, I am trying to install the package ‘simon-0.2-beta-1-Linux.deb‘ again.
simon-0.2-beta-1-Linux.deb: Installation was successful
And let’s take a look into the Ubuntu menu Applications - Universal Access:
ksimond, simon, and simond in the menu Applications > Universal Access
What is the difference between ksimond, simon, and simond?
Installing simon-0.2-beta-1-Linux.deb
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008I just downloaded the file simon-0.2-beta-1-Linux.deb from SourceForge.net.
The package installer requires the installation of 30 packages
Now, it is time to press the Install Package button. Administrative rights are required to proceed. So I have to type in the password of my Ubuntu operating system. It takes a few moments to install the package files. But then, the installation is finished. How is it possible to start Simon? I am trying to use the terminal. But it doesn’t work out. A command with the name simon is not found. So I have to find a different way. What should I do now? Let’s download the platform independant source tarball simon-0.2-beta-1-Source.tar.bz2.
Extracted files from simon-0.2-beta-1-Source.tar.bz2
At the moment, I don’t know what to do. How can I start Simon? Well, I am using now the Search for Files... option to find out where I can find the Simon executable. But I was not successful. Let’s stop here. I will look for a solution later.
Julius Daemon under Intrepid Ibex
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008I just started juliusd. Those were the corresponding lines in the terminal:
ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:~/simon/speech2text/trunk/src$ cd /home/ubuntu/simon/speech2text/juliusd/
ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:~/simon/speech2text/juliusd$ ./juliusd
Afterwards, the juliusd window with the name “Julius Daemon” opened.
KDE4 cannot be installed on my computer
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008Obviously, KDE4 cannot be installed on my computer.
Do I need KDE4 to be able to build Simon? There is a file with the name FindKDE4.cmake. And this filename implies that KDE4 could be obligatory. Is that assumption true or false? I am using GNOME/Ubuntu. Should I use KDE/Kubuntu? Well, I will try to find an answer.
Trying to build Simon
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008I just changed into the directory trunk by entering the command cd /home/ubuntu/simon/speech2text/trunk. Then I typed ./build.sh. Obviously, it didn’t work out.
ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:~/simon/speech2text/trunk$ ./build.sh
CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-2.6/Modules/FindKDE4.cmake:72 (MESSAGE):
ERROR: cmake/modules/FindKDE4Internal.cmake not found in
/home/ubuntu/.kde/share/apps;/usr/share/kde4/apps
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMakeLists.txt:2 (find_package)
– Configuring done
CMake Error: Unable to open cache file for save. /home/ubuntu/simon/speech2text/trunk/build/CMakeCache.txt
CMake Error: : System Error: Permission denied
ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:~/simon/speech2text/trunk$
Something went wrong. But what?
Edit: Probably it worked with the following line:
root@ubuntu-desktop:/home/ubuntu/simon/speech2text/trunk# ./build.sh
So it was necessary to be root = super user.
Building juliusd
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008I just switched into the juliusd folder by typing into the terminal cd /home/ubuntu/simon/speech2text/juliusd/. Afterwards, I typed “./build“.
The executable file “juliusd” is now ready.
Let’s take a look into the juliusd folder.
I hope that it will work.
Typing “HVite -V” into the terminal
Monday, November 17th, 2008I just typed into the terminal HVite -V. The result was that some HTK version information was being displayed.
Everything seems to be OK with my HTK installation.
I found this tip in this how-to:
“Type in “HVite -V” in a Command Console Window;
if your system lists all the options available to the hvite command, then HTK is installed properly.”
Installing Julius with the terminal under Ubuntu
Sunday, November 16th, 2008I just installed Julius. This was shown in (or typed into) the terminal:
ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:~$ julius
The program 'julius' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install julius
bash: julius: command not found
ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install julius
[sudo] password for ubuntu:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libavutil1d libpostproc1d libx264-57
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
julius-voxforge
The following NEW packages will be installed:
julius
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 833kB of archives.
After this operation, 1909kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse julius 4.0.2-0ubuntu1 [833kB]
Fetched 833kB in 1s (451kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package julius.
(Reading database ... 162249 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking julius (from .../julius_4.0.2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up julius (4.0.2-0ubuntu1) ...
ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:~$
I hope that it will work. I didn’t know that it is possible to install Julius under Ubuntu using apt-get install.
I just took a look into the Synaptic Package Manager. And I found out that they offer three Julius-related packages.
The green marked package is the one that I just installed. It is getting more and more comfortable.
You may want to take a look into the details of the package julius-voxforge in Intrepid.
Trying to install Simon under Intrepid Ibex
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008Now I am trying to install Simon under Intrepid Ibex. This is the current line in the terminal:
root@ubuntu-desktop:/home/ubuntu/simon# svn co http://speech2text.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/speech2text
A new folder with the name speech2text has been created.
Because I want to change the ownership of the directory speech2text from root to ubuntu, I just made an instruction via the terminal. Here is the line:
root@ubuntu-desktop:/home/ubuntu/simon# sudo chown ubuntu /home/ubuntu/simon/speech2text
Obviously, it worked. I had to search the Internet to find the command chown.
This is the actual line in my terminal:
ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:~$ cd /home/ubuntu/simon/speech2text/juliusd
And this is the next line which is being displayed:
ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:~/simon/speech2text/juliusd$ ./build.sh
This looks good:
The executable file "juliusd" is now ready.
Issue "./juliusd" to start it.
ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:~/simon/speech2text/juliusd$
