simon any working base models?

[Shervin Emami]

Hi,

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.

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).

What do you recommend we do?


Cheers,
Shervin Emami.
http://www.shervinemami.info/Robotics_Engineer.html

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 2:56 AM, Guenter Bartsch <guenter.bartsch at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Stephan,
>
> about [1]: I used CMU Sphinx version 5prealpha for training
> (http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/download) - maybe the older
> sphinx release you're using is simply not compatible with the new
> model?
>
> Cheers,
>
>    Guenter
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 6:33 PM, Stephan Olbrich <stephanolbrich at gmx.de>
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to get simon to work.
> > Downloading base models is rather difficult as the dialog shows lot's of
> > backgrounds, themes and such. I still found a german and a english model
> (both
> > sphinx based) but they don't work. After installing I just get more "use
> no
> > basemodel" ("Kein Basismodell verwenden") lines in the dropdown list.
> When I
> > select one of those and apply the setting I get an error message saying
> "base
> > model is corrupt" ("Beim Kompilieren des Modells hat der Server folgenden
> > Fehler gemeldet: Basismodell ist korrupt.")
> >
> > Manually adding from sphinx model files [1] from voxforge doesn't work
> either.
> > The only thing which works, is an old HTK model voxforge [2]
> > For the HTK model I would need to register and compile some stuff in
> order to
> > train it, which I would rather avoid.
> >
> > Any ideas how to get sphinx models working?
> >
> > I'm using simon 0.4.1 from kubuntu packages.
> > sphinxtrain 1.0.8+5prealpha-3
> > pocketsphinx 0.8.0+real5prealpha-1ubuntu2
> >
> > Regards,
> > Stephan
> >
> > [1]: http://goofy.zamia.org/voxforge/de/cmusphinx-
> voxforge-de-r20160922.tgz
> > [2]: http://www.repository.voxforge1.org/downloads/de/
> Tags/AcousticModels/
> > voxforge_de_simon-2010-04-23.tar.bz2
>
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