I achieved to give a solution to the problem. It was related, as I supposed, to the number of coefficients. Finally, I inverted the coefficient vector (using only one coefficient per sample) and after I augmented the number of features including energy, delta and acceleration coefficients. It works this way until the end without any problem.

Thanks.

--- (Edited on 10/15/2010 8:30 am [GMT-0500] by iloes) ---

hi i also want to use different features for speech recognition like plp, rasta instead of mfcc.can u suggest me hw did u convert into .htk ur own features(matrices in matlab).

as i followed the same steps from this site upto step5

after that i used "writhtk function" in matlab through which i computed plp coefficients "in htk format".Instead of mfcc i saved them in

C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\voxforge\train\mfcc\sample1.plp and so on

i have changed the codetrain , train.scp accordingly.

but on running HcompV i m getting error as follows:

Administrator@vishal /home/Administrator/voxforge/auto
$ HCompV -A -D -T 1 -C config_p -f 0.01 -m -S train_p.scp -M hmm0 proto_p
C:\cygwin\HTK\htk-3.3-windows-binary_2\htk\HCompV.exe -A -D -T 1 -C config_p -f
0.01 -m -S train_p.scp -M hmm0 proto_p

HTK Configuration Parameters[10]
  Module/Tool     Parameter                  Value
#                 NUMCEPS                       12
#                 CEPLIFTER                     22
#                 NUMCHANS                      26
#                 PREEMCOEF               0.970000
#                 USEHAMMING                  TRUE
#                 WINDOWSIZE         250000.000000
#                 SAVEWITHCRC                 TRUE
#                 SAVECOMPRESSED              TRUE
#                 TARGETRATE         100000.000000
#                 TARGETKIND           PLP_D_A_Z_0

HMM Def Error: LoadHMMSet: Inconsistent HMM macro name at line 1/col 0/char -1 i
n proto_p
  ERROR [+7050]  HMError:
  ERROR [+2028]  Initialise: LoadHMMSet failed
 FATAL ERROR - Terminating program C:\cygwin\HTK\htk-3.3-windows-binary_2\htk\HC
ompV.exe

--- (Edited on 10/16/2010 4:43 pm [GMT-0500] by aspirant) ---

Hi,

I am also thinking of using other feature vectors other than mfcc. but i am not sure on how to implement plp.

i am very new to this and my project supervisors have basically left me to get a feel of this. correct me if i am wrong, i can change it under the targetkind to plp right.

what kind of changes do i have to make to my wave files and codetrain?

--- (Edited on 3/1/2011 6:07 am [GMT-0600] by Visitor) ---

I meant other than obviously renaming all mfcc related folders and extensions to plp. i read that some users have reconfigured that deltas etc, are these required?

thank

--- (Edited on 3/1/2011 6:10 am [GMT-0600] by Visitor) ---

hi i also want to use different features for speech recognition like plp, rasta instead of mfcc.can u suggest me hw did u convert into .htk ur own features(matrices in matlab).

as i followed the same steps from this site upto step5

after that i used "writhtk function" in matlab through which i computed plp coefficients "in htk format".Instead of mfcc i saved them in

C:\cygwin\home\Administrator\voxforge\train\mfcc\sample1.plp and so on

i have changed the codetrain , train.scp accordingly.

but on running HcompV i m getting error as follows:

Administrator@vishal /home/Administrator/voxforge/auto
$ HCompV -A -D -T 1 -C config_p -f 0.01 -m -S train_p.scp -M hmm0 proto_p
C:\cygwin\HTK\htk-3.3-windows-binary_2\htk\HCompV.exe -A -D -T 1 -C config_p -f
0.01 -m -S train_p.scp -M hmm0 proto_p

HTK Configuration Parameters[10]
  Module/Tool     Parameter                  Value
#                 NUMCEPS                       12
#                 CEPLIFTER                     22
#                 NUMCHANS                      26
#                 PREEMCOEF               0.970000
#                 USEHAMMING                  TRUE
#                 WINDOWSIZE         250000.000000
#                 SAVEWITHCRC                 TRUE
#                 SAVECOMPRESSED              TRUE
#                 TARGETRATE         100000.000000
#                 TARGETKIND           PLP_D_A_Z_0

HMM Def Error: LoadHMMSet: Inconsistent HMM macro name at line 1/col 0/char -1 i
n proto_p
  ERROR [+7050]  HMError:
  ERROR [+2028]  Initialise: LoadHMMSet failed
 FATAL ERROR - Terminating program C:\cygwin\HTK\htk-3.3-windows-binary_2\htk\HC
ompV.exe

--- (Edited on 10/16/2010 4:43 pm [GMT-0500] by aspirant) ---

Cross posted here: unable to run HcompV

--- (Edited on 10/16/2010 7:43 pm [GMT-0400] by kmaclean) ---

Al Salam Alikoum,

I also work with new feature extraction method for phone recognition but the correct percentage is very small as I get 25%  and the big problem is the accuracy is negative .

any one can help me to improve the result and give accuracy with suitable value

--- (Edited on 7/20/2012 7:57 am [GMT-0500] by Visitor) ---

Hi all,

Im basically working on the same idea. Here's what I am doing. I use HTK to convert my .wav files into .mfc files. Then I use HList to convert .mfc files to text files. I get the pitch values from Praat. Im trying to append the pitch values to the correspinding mfcc vectors. Here's my problem. Say, a wav file is of 79 seconds duration. I have set TARGETRATE=100000 and WINDOWSIZE=200000, so (please correct me if im wrong)  I should be getting like 7900 vectors or so in my .mfc files. Instead, I get 3950 vectors ( half of what I expected). I am sure I am missing something. Please help!

--- (Edited on 9/5/2012 6:06 am [GMT-0500] by Visitor) ---

Hi..

Can u kindly tell me how to append the pitch etc to mfcc features using HTK..

--- (Edited on 7/31/2014 2:58 am [GMT-0500] by Visitor) ---