Training Sphinx without Flat Initialization?

[mdeala]

I have previously trained acoustic models using SphinxTrain. I want to use
these models as the initial means, variances, etc. in a new training with new
data. I believe this is called bootstrapping in HTK. Is there a way to do this
in SPHINX?

Thanks.

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

Is there a way to do this in SPHINX?

You can use model reestimation tools with existing model. There is actually no
difference how to use bw and norm. You can get details on tool arguments from
the documentation

http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinxman/scriptman1.html

You can find the examples of tools invocation in the scripts in
Sphinxtrain/scripts_pl.