>I am however overwhelmed by these long and confusing tutorials.

The tutorials are to create your own acoustic model.  You can use a current one from the nightly builds.

>Is there any easy way to teach Julius a single english word for starters?

Best to use more than a single word.

All you need is to create and compile your own grammar file, which create a .dict and .dfa file, then update your julius config to point to your new grammar files.

BTW: There is a Python module for speech recognition that uses CMU Sphinx - might be easier for you to use...

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I found that using a program called "pavucontrol" allows you to set up your mic levels.

I put the julius sample that I downloaded from VoxForge (thanks VoxForge) on my desktop which I use a handheld mike.

You do have to observe and study the program and the Sample.jconfig file.

I made some changes to my Sample.jconfig to suit me.

# VoxForge configurations:
-dfa grammar/sample.dfa
-v grammar/sample.dict
-h acoustic_model_files/hmmdefs
-hlist acoustic_model_files/tiedlist
-spmodel "sp"        # HMM model name
-multipath
-lv 4000
#-quiet
-input mic
-gprune safe
-iwcd1 max
-iwsppenalty -10.0    # transition penalty for the appended sp models was -70.0
-smpFreq 16000        # sampling rate (Hz)
-iwsp             # append a skippable sp model at all word ends
-penalty1 5.0       
-penalty2 20.0   
-b2 200                 # beam width on 2nd pass (#words)
-sb 200.0        # score beam envelope threshold
-n 1
#-nolog

I started studying the sample.dict file in the /grammar folder, I found that I could add more names. I found out what I did to sample.dict also had to be edited in sample.voca. The VoxForgeDict.txt is where I got my added names.

I've tried to setup PocketSphinx many times and am still trying, but Julius seems to be treating me good. I have tried Kaldi and it is OK but heavy on resources.

andyinyakima

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