g2p install failed : fst/fstlib.h not found

[paul]

Hello everyone,

I tried to install OpenFst to use it with SphinxTrain and recompile it with g2p enabled, and it seem to work but I got stuck with the following error :

checking fst/fstlib.h usability...
no checking fst/fstlib.h presence...
no checking for fst/fstlib.h...
no configure: error: fst/fstlib.h header not found

But the OpenFst binaries are well installed in /usr/local/lib/fst and the header too in /usr/local/include/fst..

Can anyone give me a clue about the issue ?

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

It looks in /usr/include by default, not in /usr/local/include. You probably need to set CFLAGS and LDFLAGS before configure:

 CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib ./configure ....

Overall I do not recommend you to use this feature, it never worked well. Use phonetisaurus to extend the dictionary or g2p-seq2seq.

[paul]

Hello,

thank you Nickolay for the answer, I have seen phonetisaurus but

I have another question, to extend a dictionary, what tool of phonetisaurus have I to use (g2p, align...) ?

And about phonetisaurus I didn't see an "output" option to write the generated dictionary in a file ?

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

And about phonetisaurus I didn't see an "output" option to write the generated dictionary in a file ?

You just redirect the output to a file:

 phonetisaurus-g2p --model=cmudict.dic.fst --input=a.a --isfile --words > file.out

You can also try g2p-seq2seq, it should work pretty well

http://github.com/cmusphinx/g2p-seq2seq

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev]

Tracked at https://sourceforge.net/p/cmusphinx/bugs/349/