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alh
2009-02-02
2012-09-22
  • alh

    alh - 2009-02-02

    Ok breif history. I have compiled both sphinxbasae 4.1 and pocketsphinx 5.1 in Mac OS 10.5 and Fedora 10. Both seem to have the same problem, although I am able to get two different errors in F10.

    I run the following in F10:
    /usr/local/bin/pocketsphinx_continuous -hmm /usr/local/share/pocketsphinx/model/hmm/wsj1 -lm 8883.lm -dict 8883.dic

    I get:
    INFO: ngram_search_fwdflat.c(95): fwdflat: min_ef_width = 4, max_sf_win = 25
    Warning: Could not find Mic element
    INFO: continuous.c(261): /usr/local/bin/pocketsphinx_continuous COMPILED ON: Feb 2 2009, AT: 12:48:22

    snd_pcm_start failed: Input/output error
    FATAL_ERROR: "continuous.c", line 133: ad_start_rec failed

    When I run the following in F10:
    /usr/local/bin/pocketsphinx_continuous -hmm /usr/local/share/pocketsphinx/model/hmm/wsj1 -lm 8883.lm -dict 8883.dic -adcdev plughw:1

    I get :
    INFO: ngram_search_fwdflat.c(95): fwdflat: min_ef_width = 4, max_sf_win = 25
    ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1429:(_snd_pcm_hw_open) Invalid value for card
    Error opening audio device plughw:1 for capture: No such file or directory
    FATAL_ERROR: "continuous.c", line 259: ad_open_dev failed

    This is getting incredibly frustrating as there is no documentation on this error and only 1 mention of -adcdev option in any of my google searches. Im not sure how I can duplicate this on two seperate machines and OS's, I must be doing something wrong. This seems to be the best place to find help so I will remain optimistic. Thanks in advance for any advice/pointers. Im fairly new to compiling code and such so please keep that in mind.

     
    • David Huggins-Daines

      The -adcdev option is just passed directly to ALSA. So you need to know the name of your audio device... Maybe you can try plughw:0 instead of plughw:1?

      On Fedora 10, though, audio is probably being managed by pulseaudio. I'm not really sure why the default ALSA device (whose nameis "default") isn't working...

       
    • alh

      alh - 2009-02-02

      Thanks David as well as nshm on #cmusphinx. I will be grinding away trying to get this up and running on Mac OS. Will update with any success.

       
      • alh

        alh - 2009-02-02

        meant to mention it must have been pulseaudio. Which does point to not being able to see some kind of sound input on the Mac.

         

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