I currently am working on Sphinx4 and more specifically the TranslatorDemo. However when I run it its default dictionary and model is to only output digits. The instructions say to change the config.xml file for this particular model which I have but reading it over it is confusing to me and several attempts to change the dictionary names don't seem to work.
Here is the instructions on the page:
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/sphinx4/src/apps/edu/cmu/sphinx/demo/transcriber/README.html http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/sphinx4/doc/ProgrammersGuide.html
This is my configuration file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
Sphinx-4 Configuration file
-->
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<!-- an4 configuration file -->
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<config>
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<!-- frequently tuned properties -->
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<property name="logLevel" value="WARNING"/>
<property name="absoluteBeamWidth" value="-1"/>
<property name="relativeBeamWidth" value="1E-80"/>
<property name="wordInsertionProbability" value="1E-36"/>
<property name="languageWeight" value="8"/>
<property name="frontend" value="epFrontEnd"/>
<property name="recognizer" value="recognizer"/>
<property name="showCreations" value="false"/>
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<!-- word recognizer configuration -->
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<component name="recognizer" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.recognizer.Recognizer">
<property name="decoder" value="decoder"/>
<propertylist name="monitors">
<item>accuracyTracker </item>
<item>speedTracker </item>
<item>memoryTracker </item>
</propertylist>
</component>
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<!-- The Decoder configuration -->
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<component name="decoder" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.decoder.Decoder">
<property name="searchManager" value="searchManager"/>
</component>
<component name="searchManager"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.decoder.search.SimpleBreadthFirstSearchManager">
<property name="logMath" value="logMath"/>
<property name="linguist" value="flatLinguist"/>
<property name="pruner" value="trivialPruner"/>
<property name="scorer" value="threadedScorer"/>
<property name="activeListFactory" value="activeList"/>
</component>
<component name="activeList"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.decoder.search.PartitionActiveListFactory">
<property name="logMath" value="logMath"/>
<property name="absoluteBeamWidth" value="${absoluteBeamWidth}"/>
<property name="relativeBeamWidth" value="${relativeBeamWidth}"/>
</component>
<component name="trivialPruner"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.decoder.pruner.SimplePruner"/>
<component name="threadedScorer"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.decoder.scorer.ThreadedAcousticScorer">
<property name="frontend" value="${frontend}"/>
</component>
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<!-- The linguist configuration -->
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<component name="flatLinguist"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.linguist.flat.FlatLinguist">
<property name="logMath" value="logMath"/>
<property name="grammar" value="jsgfGrammar"/>
<property name="acousticModel" value="wsj"/>
<property name="wordInsertionProbability"
value="${wordInsertionProbability}"/>
<property name="languageWeight" value="${languageWeight}"/>
<property name="unitManager" value="unitManager"/>
</component>
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<!-- The Grammar configuration -->
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<component name="jsgfGrammar" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.jsgf.JSGFGrammar">
<property name="dictionary" value="dictionary"/>
<property name="grammarLocation"
value="resource:/edu/cmu/sphinx/demo/transcriber/"/>
<property name="grammarName" value="digits"/>
<property name="logMath" value="logMath"/>
</component>
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<!-- The Dictionary configuration -->
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<component name="dictionary"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.linguist.dictionary.FastDictionary">
<property name="dictionaryPath"
value="resource:/WSJ_8gau_13dCep_16k_40mel_130Hz_6800Hz/dict/cmudict.0.6d"/>
<property name="fillerPath"
value="resource:/WSJ_8gau_13dCep_16k_40mel_130Hz_6800Hz/noisedict"/>
<property name="addSilEndingPronunciation" value="false"/>
<property name="wordReplacement" value="<sil>"/>
<property name="unitManager" value="unitManager"/>
</component>
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<!-- The acoustic model configuration -->
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<component name="wsj"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.linguist.acoustic.tiedstate.TiedStateAcousticModel">
<property name="loader" value="wsjLoader"/>
<property name="unitManager" value="unitManager"/>
</component>
<component name="wsjLoader" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.linguist.acoustic.tiedstate.Sphinx3Loader">
<property name="logMath" value="logMath"/>
<property name="unitManager" value="unitManager"/>
<property name="location" value="resource:/WSJ_8gau_13dCep_16k_40mel_130Hz_6800Hz"/>
</component>
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<!-- The unit manager configuration -->
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<component name="unitManager"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.linguist.acoustic.UnitManager"/>
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<!-- The live frontend configuration -->
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<component name="epFrontEnd" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.FrontEnd">
<propertylist name="pipeline">
<item>audioFileDataSource </item>
<item>dataBlocker </item>
<item>speechClassifier </item>
<item>speechMarker </item>
<item>nonSpeechDataFilter </item>
<item>preemphasizer </item>
<item>windower </item>
<item>fft </item>
<item>melFilterBank </item>
<item>dct </item>
<item>liveCMN </item>
<item>featureExtraction </item>
</propertylist>
</component>
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<!-- The frontend pipelines -->
<!-- ******************************************************** -->
<component name="audioFileDataSource" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.util.AudioFileDataSource"/>
<component name="dataBlocker" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.DataBlocker"/>
<component name="speechClassifier" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.endpoint.SpeechClassifier"/>
<component name="nonSpeechDataFilter"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.endpoint.NonSpeechDataFilter"/>
<component name="speechMarker" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.endpoint.SpeechMarker" />
<component name="preemphasizer"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.filter.Preemphasizer"/>
<component name="windower"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.window.RaisedCosineWindower">
</component>
<component name="fft"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.transform.DiscreteFourierTransform">
</component>
<component name="melFilterBank"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.frequencywarp.MelFrequencyFilterBank">
</component>
<component name="dct"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.transform.DiscreteCosineTransform"/>
<component name="liveCMN"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.feature.LiveCMN"/>
<component name="featureExtraction"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.frontend.feature.DeltasFeatureExtractor"/>
<!-- ******************************************************* -->
<!-- monitors -->
<!-- ******************************************************* -->
<component name="accuracyTracker"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.instrumentation.BestPathAccuracyTracker">
<property name="recognizer" value="${recognizer}"/>
<property name="showAlignedResults" value="false"/>
<property name="showRawResults" value="false"/>
</component>
<component name="memoryTracker"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.instrumentation.MemoryTracker">
<property name="recognizer" value="${recognizer}"/>
<property name="showSummary" value="false"/>
<property name="showDetails" value="false"/>
</component>
<component name="speedTracker"
type="edu.cmu.sphinx.instrumentation.SpeedTracker">
<property name="recognizer" value="${recognizer}"/>
<property name="frontend" value="${frontend}"/>
<property name="showSummary" value="true"/>
<property name="showDetails" value="false"/>
</component>
<!-- ******************************************************* -->
<!-- Miscellaneous components -->
<!-- ******************************************************* -->
<component name="logMath" type="edu.cmu.sphinx.util.LogMath">
<property name="logBase" value="1.0001"/>
<property name="useAddTable" value="true"/>
</component>
</config>
I have made several attempts to change the dictionary to something other than digits and I have tried some other things but help would be appreciated or at least simplified instructions would be better. Thank you.
Changing the dictionary will not be enough. You have to create both dictinary entries for your words and include the new words in the language model - in your case the JSGF grammar.
You will need to determine how and when the new words appear in your application and create appropriate jsgf definitions.
Alternatively, you can create a n-gram language model (even with unigrams only). It can be generated automatically based on your corpora (using lmtool from sphinx utils) or you can create it manually.