Re: [Kaldi-developers] Kaldi on Windows

[Kirill K. <kir...@sm...>]

That's exactly what you need to have said to incite me try to make it all work. :))

Thanks for the scripts. Must be recent, did not see them just a few months ago!

-kkm

From: Daniel Povey [mailto:dp...@gm...]
Sent: 2015-03-02 1316
To: Kirill Katsnelson
Cc: kal...@li...
Subject: Re: [Kaldi-developers] Kaldi on Windows

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...<mailto: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...<mailto:dp...@gm...>]
Sent: 2015-03-02 1253

To: Kirill Katsnelson
Cc: kal...@li...<mailto: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...<mailto: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...<mailto:dp...@gm...>]
Sent: 2015-03-02 1127
To: Kirill Katsnelson
Cc: kal...@li...<mailto: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...<mailto: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...<mailto: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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