HI
I am using latest versions of sphinx3,sphinxbase and sphinxtrain..
sphinxtrain.cfg file is

Configuration script for sphinx trainer --mode:Perl--

$CFG_VERBOSE = 1; # Determines how much goes to the screen.

These are filled in at configuration time

$CFG_DB_NAME = "an4";
$CFG_BASE_DIR = "/root/Desktop/sphinx/sphinx/an4";
$CFG_SPHINXTRAIN_DIR = "/root/Desktop/sphinx/sphinx/SphinxTrain";

Directory containing SphinxTrain binaries

$CFG_BIN_DIR = "$CFG_BASE_DIR/bin";
$CFG_GIF_DIR = "$CFG_BASE_DIR/gifs";
$CFG_SCRIPT_DIR = "$CFG_BASE_DIR/scripts_pl";

Experiment name, will be used to name model files and log files

$CFG_EXPTNAME = "$CFG_DB_NAME";

Audio waveform and feature file information

$CFG_WAVFILES_DIR = "$CFG_BASE_DIR/wav";
$CFG_WAVFILE_EXTENSION = 'wav';
$CFG_WAVFILE_TYPE = 'mswav'; # one of nist, mswav, raw
$CFG_FEATFILES_DIR = "$CFG_BASE_DIR/feat";
$CFG_FEATFILE_EXTENSION = 'mfc';
$CFG_VECTOR_LENGTH = 13;

Feature extraction parameters

$CFG_WAVFILE_SRATE = 16000.0;
$CFG_NUM_FILT = 40; # For wideband speech it's 40, for telephone 8khz
reasonable value is 31
$CFG_LO_FILT = 133.3334; # For telephone 8kHz speech value is 200
$CFG_HI_FILT = 6855.4976; # For telephone 8kHz speech value is 3500

$CFG_MIN_ITERATIONS = 1; # BW Iterate at least this many times
$CFG_MAX_ITERATIONS = 10; # BW Don't iterate more than this, somethings likely
wrong.

(none/max) Type of AGC to apply to input files

$CFG_AGC = 'none';

(current/none) Type of cepstral mean subtraction/normalization

to apply to input files

$CFG_CMN = 'current';

(yes/no) Normalize variance of input files to 1.0

$CFG_VARNORM = 'no';

(yes/no) Use letter-to-sound rules to guess pronunciations of

unknown words (English, 40-phone specific)

$CFG_LTSOOV = 'no';

(yes/no) Train full covariance matrices

$CFG_FULLVAR = 'no';

(yes/no) Use diagonals only of full covariance matrices for

Forward-Backward evaluation (recommended if CFG_FULLVAR is yes)

$CFG_DIAGFULL = 'no';

(yes/no) Perform vocal tract length normalization in training. This

will result in a "normalized" model which requires VTLN to be done

during decoding as well.

$CFG_VTLN = 'no';

Starting warp factor for VTLN

$CFG_VTLN_START = 0.80;

Ending warp factor for VTLN

$CFG_VTLN_END = 1.40;

Step size of warping factors

$CFG_VTLN_STEP = 0.05;

Directory to write queue manager logs to

$CFG_QMGR_DIR = "$CFG_BASE_DIR/qmanager";

Directory to write training logs to

$CFG_LOG_DIR = "$CFG_BASE_DIR/logdir";

Directory for re-estimation counts

$CFG_BWACCUM_DIR = "$CFG_BASE_DIR/bwaccumdir";

Directory to write model parameter files to

$CFG_MODEL_DIR = "$CFG_BASE_DIR/model_parameters";

Directory containing transcripts and control files for

speaker-adaptive training

$CFG_LIST_DIR = "$CFG_BASE_DIR/etc";

Decoding variables for MMIE training

$CFG_LANGUAGEWEIGHT = "11.5";
$CFG_BEAMWIDTH = "1e-100";
$CFG_WORDBEAM = "1e-80";
$CFG_LANGUAGEMODEL = "$CFG_LIST_DIR/$CFG_DB_NAME.lm.DMP";
$CFG_WORDPENALTY = "0.2";

Lattice pruning variables

$CFG_ABEAM = "1e-50";
$CFG_NBEAM = "1e-10";
$CFG_PRUNED_DENLAT_DIR = "$CFG_BASE_DIR/pruned_denlat";

$CFG_MMIE = "no";
$CFG_MMIE_MAX_ITERATIONS = 5;
$CFG_LATTICE_DIR = "$CFG_BASE_DIR/lattice";
$CFG_MMIE_TYPE = "rand"; # Valid values are "rand", "best" or "ci"
$CFG_MMIE_CONSTE = "3.0";
$CFG_NUMLAT_DIR = "$CFG_BASE_DIR/numlat";
$CFG_DENLAT_DIR = "$CFG_BASE_DIR/denlat";

Variables used in main training of models

$CFG_DICTIONARY = "$CFG_LIST_DIR/$CFG_DB_NAME.dic";
$CFG_RAWPHONEFILE = "$CFG_LIST_DIR/$CFG_DB_NAME.phone";
$CFG_FILLERDICT = "$CFG_LIST_DIR/$CFG_DB_NAME.filler";
$CFG_LISTOFFILES = "$CFG_LIST_DIR/${CFG_DB_NAME}_train.fileids";
$CFG_TRANSCRIPTFILE = "$CFG_LIST_DIR/${CFG_DB_NAME}_train.transcription";
$CFG_FEATPARAMS = "$CFG_LIST_DIR/feat.params";

Variables used in characterizing models

$CFG_HMM_TYPE = '.cont.'; # Sphinx III

$CFG_HMM_TYPE = '.semi.'; # PocketSphinx and Sphinx II

$CFG_HMM_TYPE = '.ptm.'; # PocketSphinx (larger data sets)

if (($CFG_HMM_TYPE ne ".semi.")
and ($CFG_HMM_TYPE ne ".ptm.")
and ($CFG_HMM_TYPE ne ".cont.")) {
die "Please choose one CFG_HMM_TYPE out of '.cont.', '.ptm.', or '.semi.', " .
"currently $CFG_HMM_TYPE\n";
}

This configuration is fastest and best for most acoustic models in

PocketSphinx and Sphinx-III. See below for Sphinx-II.

$CFG_STATESPERHMM = 3;
$CFG_SKIPSTATE = 'no';

if ($CFG_HMM_TYPE eq '.semi.') {
$CFG_DIRLABEL = 'semi';

Four stream features for PocketSphinx

$CFG_FEATURE = "s2_4x";
$CFG_NUM_STREAMS = 4;
$CFG_INITIAL_NUM_DENSITIES = 256;
$CFG_FINAL_NUM_DENSITIES = 256;
die "For semi continuous models, the initial and final models have the same
density"
if ($CFG_INITIAL_NUM_DENSITIES != $CFG_FINAL_NUM_DENSITIES);
} elsif ($CFG_HMM_TYPE eq '.ptm.') {
$CFG_DIRLABEL = 'ptm';

Four stream features for PocketSphinx

$CFG_FEATURE = "s2_4x";
$CFG_NUM_STREAMS = 4;
$CFG_INITIAL_NUM_DENSITIES = 64;
$CFG_FINAL_NUM_DENSITIES = 64;
die "For phonetically tied models, the initial and final models have the same
density"
if ($CFG_INITIAL_NUM_DENSITIES != $CFG_FINAL_NUM_DENSITIES);
} elsif ($CFG_HMM_TYPE eq '.cont.') {
$CFG_DIRLABEL = 'cont';

Single stream features - Sphinx 3

$CFG_FEATURE = "1s_c_d_dd";
$CFG_NUM_STREAMS = 1;
$CFG_INITIAL_NUM_DENSITIES = 1;
$CFG_FINAL_NUM_DENSITIES = 8;
die "The initial has to be less than the final number of densities"
if ($CFG_INITIAL_NUM_DENSITIES > $CFG_FINAL_NUM_DENSITIES);
}

Number of top gaussians to score a frame. A little bit less accurate

computations

make training significantly faster. Uncomment to apply this during the

training

For good accuracy make sure you are using the same setting in decoder

In theory this can be different for various training stages. For example 4

for

CI stage and 16 for CD stage

$CFG_CI_TOPN = 4;

$CFG_CD_TOPN = 16;

(yes/no) Train multiple-gaussian context-independent models (useful

for alignment, use 'no' otherwise) in the models created

specifically for forced alignment

$CFG_FALIGN_CI_MGAU = 'no';

(yes/no) Train multiple-gaussian context-independent models (useful

for alignment, use 'no' otherwise)

$CFG_CI_MGAU = 'no';

Number of tied states (senones) to create in decision-tree clustering

$CFG_N_TIED_STATES = 1000;

How many parts to run Forward-Backward estimatinon in

$CFG_NPART = 1;

(yes/no) Train a single decision tree for all phones (actually one

per state) (useful for grapheme-based models, use 'no' otherwise)

$CFG_CROSS_PHONE_TREES = 'no';

Use force-aligned transcripts (if available) as input to training

$CFG_FORCEDALIGN = 'yes';

Use a specific set of models for force alignment. If not defined,

context-independent models for the current experiment will be used.

$CFG_FORCE_ALIGN_MDEF =
"$CFG_BASE_DIR/model_architecture/$CFG_EXPTNAME.falign_ci.mdef";
$CFG_FORCE_ALIGN_MODELDIR =
"$CFG_MODEL_DIR/$CFG_EXPTNAME.falign_ci_$CFG_DIRLABEL";

Use a specific dictionary and filler dictionary for force alignment.

If these are not defined, a dictionary and filler dictionary will be

created from $CFG_DICTIONARY and $CFG_FILLERDICT, with noise words

removed from the filler dictionary and added to the dictionary (this

is because the force alignment is not very good at inserting them)

$CFG_FORCE_ALIGN_DICTIONARY =

"$ST::CFG_BASE_DIR/falignout$ST::CFG_EXPTNAME.falign.dict";;

$CFG_FORCE_ALIGN_FILLERDICT =

"$ST::CFG_BASE_DIR/falignout/$ST::CFG_EXPTNAME.falign.fdict";;

Use a particular beam width for force alignment. The wider

(i.e. smaller numerically) the beam, the fewer sentences will be

rejected for bad alignment.

$CFG_FORCE_ALIGN_BEAM = 1e-60;

Calculate an LDA/MLLT transform?

$CFG_LDA_MLLT = 'no';

Dimensionality of LDA/MLLT output

$CFG_LDA_DIMENSION = 29;

This is actually just a difference in log space (it doesn't make

sense otherwise, because different feature parameters have very

different likelihoods)

$CFG_CONVERGENCE_RATIO = 0.1;

Queue::POSIX for multiple CPUs on a local machine

Queue::PBS to use a PBS/TORQUE queue

$CFG_QUEUE_TYPE = "Queue";

Name of queue to use for PBS/TORQUE

$CFG_QUEUE_NAME = "workq";

(yes/no) Build questions for decision tree clustering automatically

$CFG_MAKE_QUESTS = "yes";

If CFG_MAKE_QUESTS is yes, questions are written to this file.

If CFG_MAKE_QUESTS is no, questions are read from this file.

$CFG_QUESTION_SET =
"${CFG_BASE_DIR}/model_architecture/${CFG_EXPTNAME}.tree_questions";

$CFG_QUESTION_SET = "${CFG_BASE_DIR}/linguistic_questions";

$CFG_CP_OPERATION =
"${CFG_BASE_DIR}/model_architecture/${CFG_EXPTNAME}.cpmeanvar";

This variable has to be defined, otherwise utils.pl will not load.

$CFG_DONE = 1;

return 1;

when I run "perl scripts_pl/RunAll.pl"

I found the error
MODULE: 11 Force-aligning transcripts
Phase 1: Cleaning up directories:
logs...output...qmanager...
Phase 3: Creating dictionary for alignment...
Phase 4: Creating transcript for alignment...
Phase 5: Running force alignment in 1 parts
Force alignment starting: (1 of 1)
0%
Failed in part 1
MODULE: 12 Force-aligning data for VTLN
Skipped: $ST::CFG_VTLN set to 'no' in sphinx_train.cfg
MODULE: 20 Training Context Independent models
Phase 1: Cleaning up directories:
accumulator...logs...qmanager...models...
Phase 2: Copy initialize from falign model
Phase 3: Forward-Backward
Baum welch starting for 1 Gaussian(s), iteration: 1 (1 of 1)
0%
This step had 1 ERROR messages and 1 WARNING messages. Please check the log
file for details.
Training failed in iteration 1
Something failed:
(/root/Desktop/sphinx/sphinx/an4/scripts_pl/20.ci_hmm/slave_convg.pl)

and when I look in the logdir, I found the error
/root/Desktop/sphinx/sphinx/an4/bin/sphinx3_align: line 117:
/root/Desktop/sphinx/sphinx/an4/bin/.libs/lt-sphinx3_align: Permission denied
/root/Desktop/sphinx/sphinx/an4/bin/sphinx3_align: line 117: exec:
/root/Desktop/sphinx/sphinx/an4/bin/.libs/lt-sphinx3_align: cannot execute:
Permission denied
Wed Oct 19 11:43:50 2011

I have used "chmod 777 sphinx3_align" and "su" but no effect. Please HELP ME
in solving this issue.
Thanks and Best Regards

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Configuration script for sphinx trainer --mode:Perl--

These are filled in at configuration time

Directory containing SphinxTrain binaries

Experiment name, will be used to name model files and log files

Audio waveform and feature file information

Feature extraction parameters

(none/max) Type of AGC to apply to input files

(current/none) Type of cepstral mean subtraction/normalization

to apply to input files

(yes/no) Normalize variance of input files to 1.0

(yes/no) Use letter-to-sound rules to guess pronunciations of

unknown words (English, 40-phone specific)

(yes/no) Train full covariance matrices

(yes/no) Use diagonals only of full covariance matrices for

Forward-Backward evaluation (recommended if CFG_FULLVAR is yes)

(yes/no) Perform vocal tract length normalization in training. This

will result in a "normalized" model which requires VTLN to be done

during decoding as well.

Starting warp factor for VTLN

Ending warp factor for VTLN

Step size of warping factors

Directory to write queue manager logs to

Directory to write training logs to

Directory for re-estimation counts

Directory to write model parameter files to

Directory containing transcripts and control files for

speaker-adaptive training

Decoding variables for MMIE training

Lattice pruning variables

MMIE training related variables

Variables used in main training of models

Variables used in characterizing models

$CFG_HMM_TYPE = '.semi.'; # PocketSphinx and Sphinx II

$CFG_HMM_TYPE = '.ptm.'; # PocketSphinx (larger data sets)

This configuration is fastest and best for most acoustic models in

PocketSphinx and Sphinx-III. See below for Sphinx-II.

Four stream features for PocketSphinx

Four stream features for PocketSphinx

Single stream features - Sphinx 3

Number of top gaussians to score a frame. A little bit less accurate

make training significantly faster. Uncomment to apply this during the

For good accuracy make sure you are using the same setting in decoder

In theory this can be different for various training stages. For example 4

CI stage and 16 for CD stage

$CFG_CI_TOPN = 4;

$CFG_CD_TOPN = 16;

(yes/no) Train multiple-gaussian context-independent models (useful

for alignment, use 'no' otherwise) in the models created

specifically for forced alignment

(yes/no) Train multiple-gaussian context-independent models (useful

for alignment, use 'no' otherwise)

Number of tied states (senones) to create in decision-tree clustering

How many parts to run Forward-Backward estimatinon in

(yes/no) Train a single decision tree for all phones (actually one

per state) (useful for grapheme-based models, use 'no' otherwise)

Use force-aligned transcripts (if available) as input to training

Use a specific set of models for force alignment. If not defined,

context-independent models for the current experiment will be used.

Use a specific dictionary and filler dictionary for force alignment.

If these are not defined, a dictionary and filler dictionary will be

created from $CFG_DICTIONARY and $CFG_FILLERDICT, with noise words

removed from the filler dictionary and added to the dictionary (this

is because the force alignment is not very good at inserting them)

$CFG_FORCE_ALIGN_DICTIONARY =

$CFG_FORCE_ALIGN_FILLERDICT =

Use a particular beam width for force alignment. The wider

(i.e. smaller numerically) the beam, the fewer sentences will be

rejected for bad alignment.

Calculate an LDA/MLLT transform?

Dimensionality of LDA/MLLT output

This is actually just a difference in log space (it doesn't make

sense otherwise, because different feature parameters have very

different likelihoods)

Queue::POSIX for multiple CPUs on a local machine

Queue::PBS to use a PBS/TORQUE queue

force_alignment