<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I have also been trying to get Simon to work in the past few weeks (it's my first time using Simon), and I've been having the exact same problem. I have tried Simon on Linux Mint 17 KDE, Linux Mint 18 DE, Ubuntu 16.04, Kubuntu 16.04, and Debian Jessie KDE. In all those distributions, I tried the default "simon" package. I've also tried building Simon myself from source but either it had the same problem or I wasn't quite able to build it correctly. I have tried all 3 of the base models that show up in the dialog box in Simon when you click the "Download" button. I've also tried manually downloading the files and adding them manually.</div><div><br></div><div>But in ALL situations mentioned above, I still get the same problem, that Simon doesn't accept any (English) base model. I haven't tried any German base models, I wasn't sure if it would be useful to do that or not if I only speak English. But I haven't tried installing HTK or importing all the individual files to generate a base model (since I don't know here to find those files).</div><div><br></div><div>What do you recommend we do?</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Cheers,<br>Shervin Emami.<br><a href="http://www.shervinemami.info/Robotics_Engineer.html" target="_blank">http://www.shervinemami.info/Robotics_Engineer.html</a><br></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 2:56 AM, Guenter Bartsch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:guenter.bartsch@gmail.com" target="_blank">guenter.bartsch@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Stephan,<br>
<br>
about [1]: I used CMU Sphinx version 5prealpha for training<br>
(<a href="http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/download" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.<wbr>net/wiki/download</a>) - maybe the older<br>
sphinx release you're using is simply not compatible with the new<br>
model?<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Guenter<br>
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<br>
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Stephan Olbrich <<a href="mailto:stephanolbrich@gmx.de">stephanolbrich@gmx.de</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I'm trying to get simon to work.<br>
> Downloading base models is rather difficult as the dialog shows lot's of<br>
> backgrounds, themes and such. I still found a german and a english model (both<br>
> sphinx based) but they don't work. After installing I just get more "use no<br>
> basemodel" ("Kein Basismodell verwenden") lines in the dropdown list. When I<br>
> select one of those and apply the setting I get an error message saying "base<br>
> model is corrupt" ("Beim Kompilieren des Modells hat der Server folgenden<br>
> Fehler gemeldet: Basismodell ist korrupt.")<br>
><br>
> Manually adding from sphinx model files [1] from voxforge doesn't work either.<br>
> The only thing which works, is an old HTK model voxforge [2]<br>
> For the HTK model I would need to register and compile some stuff in order to<br>
> train it, which I would rather avoid.<br>
><br>
> Any ideas how to get sphinx models working?<br>
><br>
> I'm using simon 0.4.1 from kubuntu packages.<br>
> sphinxtrain 1.0.8+5prealpha-3<br>
> pocketsphinx 0.8.0+real5prealpha-1ubuntu2<br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> Stephan<br>
><br>
> [1]: <a href="http://goofy.zamia.org/voxforge/de/cmusphinx-voxforge-de-r20160922.tgz" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://goofy.zamia.org/<wbr>voxforge/de/cmusphinx-<wbr>voxforge-de-r20160922.tgz</a><br>
> [2]: <a href="http://www.repository.voxforge1.org/downloads/de/Tags/AcousticModels/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.repository.<wbr>voxforge1.org/downloads/de/<wbr>Tags/AcousticModels/</a><br>
> voxforge_de_simon-2010-04-23.<wbr>tar.bz2<br>
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