[Kde-accessibility] Installing Simon in Microsoft Windows

[Peter Grasch]

Hi Jean,


> In the Scenario window I clicked on download and installed “[EN/H4W]Mouse” . Then I proceeded to the next window which is Speech Model where I clicked selected Open Model and clicked on download. I Installed “[EN/VF/HTK] Voxforge” and continued to the next two windows in which I left the default settings. 
You mixed phoneme sets here. The EN/H4W mouse scenario uses the H4W phoneme set, while the EN/VF base model uses the VF phoneme set. Please use only matching scenario / base model configurations.
> When I first activated Simon to test the “[EN/H4W]Mouse” Scenario, it wasn’t responding to the commands that it had.
> 
Yes, that would be expected behaviour. The H4W transcriptions are “foreign” to the VF base model, so it will remove those words from the language model (leaving none).

> I later created a Scenario of my own and used the first dictionary that can be seen in this link http://www.repository.voxforge1.org/downloads/Nightly_Builds/AcousticModel-2014-03-01/ <http://www.repository.voxforge1.org/downloads/Nightly_Builds/AcousticModel-2014-03-01/> the one that ends with “16kHz_16bit_MFCC_O_D.tgz”.
> 
That may be the right shadow dictionary. Voxforge slightly altered their transcription style at some point, though. Not sure when the base model was built - I think the dictionary should be fine, but if you run into problems it may be a good idea to try to use an earlier version of the Voxforge dictionary.

>  I was able to create a command that opened a Python command line using the “Trigger” button that can be found in the Grammar module when opening a Scenario. Trained the command that I used in the Scenario to open the Python command line 10 times but when I activated Simon it didn’t respond. 
> 
You said you use a base model, right? From the tag, that is a Julius / HTK model. Training only has any effect if you either don’t use a base model or use an adapted base model. Did you use an adapted base model? There is no base model called “[EN/VF/HTK] Voxforge”. Did you use “[EN/VF/JHTK] Voxforge” or [EN/VF/JHTK] Voxforge Binary”?

> After training the Senerio that I created and trying to get it to work, this error started to appear everytime I tried activating Simon:
> 
Hm. Weird. Do these files exist when the error appears?
This is Simon 0.4.1, right?

Best regards,
Peter

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