RWTH ASR System Installing Instructions

• Get an account at the RBI pool.
  RBI homepage: http://www-rbi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/
  
  
• The RWTH ASR system will occupy more than 100M disk space. The ASR system occupies
  more than which is more than the home directory quota allows. So you will have to compile
  the system in a temporary directory.
  
  mkdir /var/tmp/${USER}
  
  
• Download and unpack RWTH ASR 0.3 from: http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/rwth-asr
  
  mv rwth-asr-0.3.tar.gz /var/tmp/${USER}
  cd /var/tmp/${USER}
  tar xvfz rwth-asr-0.3.tar.gz
  
  
• Download the RWTH ASR Teaching module from:
  http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~nussbaum/sprint-teaching/rwth-asr-0.3-teaching.patch.gz
  
  
• Apply the patch:
  
  cd /var/tmp/${USER}/rwth-asr-0.3
  gzip -dc /path-to/rwth-asr-0.3-teaching.patch.gz | patch -p0
  
  
• Compile the software
  
  cd /var/tmp/${USER}/rwth-asr-0.3
  make install
  
  
• Download and unpack the recognition setup (for example to your home directory) from:
  http://www-i6.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/~nussbaum/sprint-teaching/recognition-setup.2008-11-21.tar.gz
  
  
• Move the speech recognizer executable to your recognition setup directory and start the recognition process:
  
  mv /var/tmp/${USER}/rwth-asr-0.3/src/Tools/SpeechRecognizer/speech-recognizer.linux-< architecture> -standard path/to/recognition-setup
  ./speech-recognizer.linux- architecture>-standard --config config/recognition.config