Pocketsphinx improving accuracy / recognition

[Anonymous]

Hi, I've managed to finally build and run pocketsphinx
(pocketsphinx_continuous). The problem I'm running into, is how to a improve
accuracy. From what I understand, you can specify a dictionary file (-dict
test.dic). So I took the default dictionary file and added some more
pronunciations of the same words, for example:

pencil P EH N S AH L
pencil(2) P EH N S IH L

spaghetti S P AH G EH T IY
spaghetti(2) S P UH G EH T IY

Yet pocketsphinx still does not recognize either word at all. I know there is
a jsgf file you can specify as well , but that seems more for phrases and
grammar. How can I get pocketsphinx to recognize common words such as pencil
and spaghetti?

thanks

-Mike

[Anupam Saha]

make a text file containing your words, each word in a single line. and make
lm and dic file from ths link..
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/tools/lmtool-
new.html

then just pass the arguments at command line as -hmm "hmm path" -lm "lm path"
-dict "dic path"