Re: [Kaldi-developers] Kaldi on Windows

[Daniel P. <dp...@gm...>]

librispeech scripts are available in librispeech/s5/.
I am warning you, you will regret trying to do it on Windows.  But I would
still appreciate help with the build setup.

Dan


On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Kirill Katsnelson <
kir...@sm...> wrote:

>  Compiling under cygwin is probably not reasonable for such a
> computation-intensive toolkit. No CUDA, probably no MKL, not even
> instruction set optimization, as far as I understand.
>
>
>
> I’ll see what I can pull out of it when it compiles and tests ok. I know
> of the line ending issues, and hope to be able to handle them. Pipes I am
> not sure, never ran into these before. That would be a more complex problem.
>
>
>
> I do not have access to the WSJ corpus. Are there any pointers to the use
> of LibriSpeech instead? I remember reading your paper where you compared
> the results on DNN in wsj/s5 with LibriSpeech. I’ll have to reread it, but
> as well may ask you while we are communicating :) -- are Kaldi scripts
> available for it?
>
>
>
> -kkm
>
>
>
> *From:* Daniel Povey [mailto:dp...@gm...]
> *Sent:* 2015-03-02 1253
>
> *To:* Kirill Katsnelson
> *Cc:* kal...@li...
> *Subject:* Re: [Kaldi-developers] Kaldi on Windows
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> If you are going to use cygwin, then it is best to just compile it in
> cygwin.  If you compile using Visual Studio, the binaries won't work
> correctly- I forget whether it relates to how newlines are handled, how
> pipes work, or some other reason.  In any case, Visual Studio is quite
> buggy- some problems were reported recently on one of these lists.
>
> Dan
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Kirill Katsnelson <
> kir...@sm...> wrote:
>
> Thank you Dan! I hope cygwin will take care of the script part, unless
> there are exotic used like unix domain sockets, procfs etc.
>
>
>
> -kkm
>
>
>
> *From:* Daniel Povey [mailto:dp...@gm...]
> *Sent:* 2015-03-02 1127
> *To:* Kirill Katsnelson
> *Cc:* kal...@li...
> *Subject:* Re: [Kaldi-developers] Kaldi on Windows
>
>
>
> I confirmed on both lists.  Replying to kaldi-developers and just bcc'ing
> kaldi-users.
>
> It would be great if you could improve the Windows build for us.
>
> However, Kaldi scripts are dependent on things like bash, and it won't
> work on Windows.  So ultimately it will not make sense for you to train on
> Windows- the cost of your time will be more than the cost of a new
> machine.  That being said, I would appreciate better Windows build scripts
> (main use case is deployment of recognition on Windows).
>
> Dan
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Kirill Katsnelson <
> kir...@sm...> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to compile and use Kaldi on Windows. The perl script that
> comes in the distribution does not produce very useful results, since
> VS2013 has a trouble opening (opening, not compiling!) the resulting
> monster solution of 600+ projects. It does not support CUDA also.
>
> I approached the problem from the square one and am writing msbuild
> scripts with the support for CUDA, MKL and Intel C++ compiler.
>
> Is there any interest in supporting Kaldi build on Windows in the mainline
> distribution? For me, a practical consideration in this decision was the
> cost of building an extra machine with CUDA hardware and Intel software
> just for Kaldi, while my Windows machine already has all this.
>
> Is kal...@li... a closed list? I send a
> subscription request to the both lists, but got a confirmation from the
> -users@ list only.
>
>  -kkm
>
>
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