C / C ++ Code Examples with HTK (Markov Hidden Toolkit)

Question

I'm trying to get started with HTK, I grabbed a copy, compiled it, grabbed a book and everything went more or less wonderful, small problems here and there, but nothing serious.

Now, after reading the book and searching on Google for quite some time, I do not see any documentation for the most important part for me: HTKLib. Everything is described in great detail for all HTK software tools (command line interface scripting tools), but I can not find a single example or tutorial on how to actually call lib.

Can someone point me in a direction? The source code for the corresponding tools is included, but it would be rather cumbersome to extract information for an authoritative library by reading the source code ... I would expect a little extra documentation, but maybe I just lost sight of it?

Any help is greatly appreciated

Tom

edit: I tried to use HTK for computer vision, not NLP, and for this I needed to be able to reference it and call it from my code. Thank you for your responses.

Answer 1

Perhaps ATK is more suitable for you. Here is an explanation from the ATK website:

"ATK is an API designed to create experimental applications for HTK. It consists of a C ++ layer that sits on top of standard HTK libraries."

In addition, Microsoft Research has another research tool here for teaching acoustic models. This includes a set of visual projects for HTKlib and a set of C ++ HTK shells, but it can only include a subset of the HTK features and has license restrictions.

Answer 2

I did not use it, but I used language modeling tools. I think the main intention is to use the provided command line tools. I think they are very flexible tools that will allow you to create and test models. Why do you want to use the code?

And what are you trying to do?