Hi,

I think I found the AM:
http://www.repository.voxforge1.org/downloads/de/Trunk/AcousticModels/

BUT where is the dict in Julius format, something like:
ZURICH          [ZURICH]        z uh r ix k

Thanks!

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>where is the dict in Julius format

It is here: Lexicon.tgz 25-Sep-2010 05:52 5.1M (Ralf's German dictionary 0.2.1)

You can also take a look at the sphinx acoustic model, in the etc folder for a german pronunciation dictionary in Sphinx format

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Hm...
The archive does not contain any *.grammar or *.voca files.

How do you tell Julius to use these files?

regards,
Pepe

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>How do you tell Julius to use these files?

see the VoxForge Tutorial: Running Julian Live

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Hi Ken,

> see the VoxForge Tutorial: Running Julian Live

ok. I did that. However, the configuration file wants

sample.dfa
sample.dict
hmm15/hmmdefs
tiedlist

files. The tarball (Lexicon.tgz) consists of the following files:

Lexicon
Lexicon/dewik.rawpronSortedForms.current
Lexicon/voxDE20090209.xml
Lexicon/dewik.rawpron
Lexicon/voxDE20071211.pr0n
Lexicon/voxDE20080615.xml
Lexicon/voxDE20090209.pr0n
Lexicon/voxDE-lexicon.xml
Lexicon/dewik.rawpronSortedForms
Lexicon/dewik.output
Lexicon/german-dictionary.xml

So, either I'm too stupid (which might be the case - than I'm sorry) 
to relate the files of the tarball to the appropriate configuration parameter,
or there must be a step in-between to create the hhmmdefs - or whatever
is required.


Any help is apprciated. Thanks in advance,
Pepe

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> However, the configuration file wants...

The first post in this thread has a link to:

  voxforge_de_simon-2010-04-21.tgz 12-May-2010 15:37 12M  

where you will find: 

• hmm15/hmmdefs
• tiedlist

You will have to make your own grammars(sample.dfa and sample.dict).

The VoxForge tutorial will give you an idea (see step1).  

The link to the lexicon (which is a pronunciation dictionary) gives you the pronunciations you need to create your own grammars in german.

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ah... ok. I though it replaces it.

Thanks. I think I know how to go on from here. :-)

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Ok, most of the words I define in the voca file are reognized. :-)

However, there are some - very common - words which do not work, e.g.:

/Lexicon # egrep -e '^Wer\>' *pr0n
voxDE20071211.pr0n:Wer    v e: r

julian complains:

Error: voca_load_htkdict: line 13: triphone "v-e:+r" not found
Error: voca_load_htkdict: line 13: triphone "e:-r+*" or biphone "e:-r" not found
Error: voca_load_htkdict: the line content was: 9       [Wer]   v e: r

Any hints?

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>Error: voca_load_htkdict: the line content was: 9       [Wer]   v e: r

include at least 3 to 5 recordings of words with the word Wer, retrain your acoustic model to include these additional recordings.

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