kaldi speech recognition toolkit
to build the toolkit: see ./INSTALL
there instructions are valid for UNIX systems including various flavors of linux;Darwin;
and Cygwin(has not been tested on more “exotic(异乎寻常)” varieties(品种) of UNIX).
for windows installation instructions(excluding Cygwin),see windows/INSTALL.
to run the example system builds,see egs/README.txt
If you encounter(遭遇) problems (and you probably will),please do not hesitate to contact the developers(see below).
In addition to(除了什么之外) specific questions,please let us know if there are specific aspects(方面) of the project
that you feel could be improved,that you find confusing,etc.
and which missing features you most wish it had.
kaldi information channels
for hot news about kaldi see the project site.
documentation of kaldi:
info about the project,description of techniques,tutorial for C++ coding.
Doxygen(编程辅助工具) reference of the C++ code.
Kaldi forums and mailing lists:
we have two different lists
- user list kaldi-help
- developer list kaldi-developers:
- to sign up to any of those mailing lists,go to http://kaldi-asr.org/forums.html:
development pattern for contributors
- create a personal fork of the main kaldi repository in github.
- make your changes in a named branch differet from master,e.g. you create a branch my-awesome-feature.
- generete a pull request through the web interface of github
- as a general rule,please follow google c++ style guide.
there are a few exceptions in kaldi.
you can use the google’s cpplint.py to verify that your code is free of basic mistakes.
platform specific notes
powerpc 64bits little-endian(字节存储次序)(ppc64le)
kaldi is expected to work out of the box in RHEL>=7 and Ubuntu >=16.04 with OpenBLAS,ATLAS,or CUDA.
CUDA drivers for ppc64le can be found at https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads.
An IBM Redbook is available as a guide to install and configure CUDA.
Android
kaldi supports cross compiling for android using android NDK,clang++ and OpenBLAS.
see this blog post for details.