Hello, I tried manually following the steps at http://www.voxforge.org/home/dev/acousticmodels/windows/create/htkjulius/how-to/

 and I kept getting this error

"

        Step 10 - Making Tied-State Triphones

==============================================================

making hmm13

  ERROR [+2662]  AssignStructure: cannot find tree for b state 2

 FATAL ERROR - Terminating program C:\cygwin\HTK\htk-3.3-windows-binary\htk\HHEd

.exe

making hmm14

  ERROR [+5010]  InitSource: Cannot open source file ./interim_files/tiedlist

  ERROR [+7010]  InitHMMSet: Can't open list file ./interim_files/tiedlist

  ERROR [+2321]  Initialise: MakeHMMSet failed

 FATAL ERROR - Terminating program C:\cygwin\HTK\htk-3.3-windows-binary\htk\HERe

st.exe

making hmm15

  ERROR [+5010]  InitSource: Cannot open source file ./interim_files/tiedlist

  ERROR [+7010]  InitHMMSet: Can't open list file ./interim_files/tiedlist

  ERROR [+2321]  Initialise: MakeHMMSet failed

 FATAL ERROR - Terminating program C:\cygwin\HTK\htk-3.3-windows-binary\htk\HERe

st.exe

cp: cannot stat `./interim_files/hmm15/hmmdefs': No such file or directory

cp: cannot stat `./interim_files/tiedlist': No such file or directory

"

I then started all over and downloaded the entire archive as provided, but found that some of the input files were different, so I still had to copy and paste (Like the 'prompts' file). I ran it again, and got the same result. If someone has this working, can you send me an archive of their auto folder to [email protected] or post it on here  so I can see where I went wrong? Thanks.

I eventually took the outdated zipped archive on the site (It has 27 prompt lines instead of 31) and just replaced the audio files with my audio, and ran it (I had to move/copy-and-paste a few files so that the compiling script would find it) and it compiled fine.  Yippee! Except, when I ran it, it didn't recognize anything correctly. The guide says I should at least get "fair accuracy" but I'd say something like "Dial Four" and it would repeat its apparently favorite statement... "Call steve".

When I use the "Quick start" Julius, it understands me pretty much perfectly, so I'm doubting it's the microphone. (Although, I have to hold the microphone really close to my mouth when I speak or otherwise it won't do anything. During recording with Audacity, I didn't hold it "super close" and it obviously captured something, though it seemed pretty soft. I'm pretty sure I have every playback and recording volume bar maxed out.)

--- (Edited on 9/10/2010 3:10 pm [GMT-0500] by swbluto) ---