Speech:Spring 2013 Michael Brown Log


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Week Ending February 5th, 2013

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Week Ending February 12, 2013
2/9 Figuring out how many words are in the dictionary that is being used.
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2/10 View group members logs.

2/11 Doing some research on SCLite and looking at group member logs

2/13 Continued resarch on SCLite 2/9 The figure I came up with was 127,128 words. The dictionary that we are using currently is CMU Dictionary 0.6.
 * Results:

2/10 None.

2/11 Ongoing

2/13 When I was doing research on SCLite I saw that were were other programs that have to same functionality as SCLite. The basic concept of SCLite is simple; It is a way of scoring how well a speech recognition system does its job. Its the algorithms used, that make it quite confusion, but it doesn't seem like we really have to know that. Rather we just need to run it. here is a good link explaining a SCLite link

2/9 Relay info to rest of the tools team so that we can make a more informed decision as to whether to upgrade the Sphinx 4.0 or not.
 * Plan:

2/10 None.

2/11 Getting a better understanding on how the different parts of this entire project work together.

2/13 Relay what I learn to my group and see where they stand.

2/9 I haven't had any concerns yet.
 * Concerns:

2/10 None.

2/11 None at the moment.

2/13 None.

Week Ending February 19, 2013
2/16 Finding how far the previous semester got with installing SCLite.
 * Task:

2/17 Looking over group member logs

2/18 Finding more info on SCLite

2/16 So far I haven't found any info on how far the previous group has got as far as installing SCLite is concerned. Its my undestanding that SCLite was unable to install properly but from what I hear it was good enough.
 * Results:

2/17 None.

2/18 There is hardly any information I can find on the internet on SCLite except for the link I posted last week.

2/19 Seeing where my group members are at with their research on their logs.

2/16 At this point I am going to do some research on installing SCLite and start from there. Our group should try installing on our own.
 * Plan:

2/17 None.

2/18 Consult with team members 2/16 My concern at this point is finding notes online pertaining to SCLite.
 * Concerns:

2/17 None.

2/18 Sort of flying blind at the moment.

Week Ending February 26, 2013
2/22/13 Update proposal on wiki. 2/25/13 Viewing group member logs
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2/20 I have found the readme to install the sclite. SCLite is located within sctk package (Speech Recognition Scoring Toolkit) The current version is 2.4.0 and that is what we are currently using. For the summer 2011 semester Brian Avery was having trouble getting SCLite to compile.

2/22/13 I updated the proposal on the wiki. The proposal was written by Charlie. I will most likey make some more refinements to it.

2/25/13 Viewing group member logs

2/26/13 Viewing group member logs

2/22/13 Making sure the proposal is good for the wiki.
 * Plan:

2/25/13 None

2/16/13 None 2/22/13 None at this time.
 * Concerns:

2/25/13 None

2/26/13 Not sure what else to contribute if the tools are working right now. We may need to work with the experiment group to ask them about any issues or suggestions they have since they would be using these tools the most.

Week Ending March 5, 2013
3/1/13 Check group members logs
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3/1/13 N/A
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3/1/13
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3/1/13 Need to talk with team to see where we stand.
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Week Ending March 12, 2013

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Week Ending March 26, 2013
3/20 Verify the version of Suse running.
 * Task:

3/24 Going over the revised steps for running an experiment

3/25 Attempted a to run an experiment

3/26 Continued attempt at running experiment

3/20 Just like it says we are running Suse 11.3. I used the following command to comfirm; uname -a && cat /etc/*release.
 * Results:

3/24 No results yet. I will attempt to run an experiment on idefix tomorrow

3/25 I ran into an issue setting up my experiment. I am at a point where I am trying to edit sphinx_train.cfg file but when I open the file in vi there is nothing in it.

3/26 I figured out what my issue was from yesterday. I was just not in the right place when I was trying to look for that file. Everything was smooth sailing up until I started the train and I got the common dictionary error.

3/20 Lee asked me to double check the version so I will just let him know.
 * Plan:

3/24 Like I said before I will be running an experiment on idefix tomorrow

3/25 Waiting on a response on the question I asked via email

3/26 Will hopefully get it sorted out tomorrow in class 3/20 None at the moment.
 * Concerns:

3/24 Hope I don't ruin anything.

3/25 I want to get this to work. I know it can, but I always have issues trying to run things...

3/26 None at this time.

Week Ending April 2, 2013
3/30 Finish Train and Decode
 * Task:

4/1 Started scoring

4/2 Finished experiment

3/30 I ran a train and decode with the help of Eric over google hangout earlier in the week. I just forgot to post it in my log
 * Results:

4/1 Ran into the common errors, double reference for id..., and not enough reference files loaded.

4/2 I finally completed an experiment; experiment 0034 I ran into the issues that were expected and documented on the wiki.

3/30 I want to go over it again to make sure I fully understand everything.
 * Plan:

4/1 I will finish the scoring tomorrow.

4/2 Meet with group tomorrow 3/30 Making sure I understand everything
 * Concerns:

4/1 Finish scoring with sclite.

4/2 None at this time.

Week Ending April 9, 2013
4/6 B and C group experiment. I found the last ten phonemes for the dictionary that we are using.
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4/7 Actually sent the phonemes

4/8 Checking to see how far the group experiment as gone

4/9 Checking to see how the experiment went

4/6 I found the last ten phonemes for the dictionary we are using the but I 'm not sure yet if I need to do more yet. Asking Erik for confirmation.
 * Results:

4/7 I forgot to send my phonemes I came up with so I actually sent them in.

4/8 As of right now we are waiting on the rest of the phonemes to be found to run the group experiment.

4/9 The experiment was a success.

4/6 Check to see what else I should do.
 * Plan:

4/7 Check to see how the experiment is going.

4/8 Continue checking the progress.

4/9 Check in tomorrow to see whats next. 4/6 None at this time.
 * Concerns:

4/7 None at this time.

4/8 None at this time.

4/9 None at this time.

Week Ending April 16, 2013
4/14 Generate phone list and features data for group BC experiment 0080.
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4/15 Checking to see how the experiment is going.

4/14 Everything ran fine except for an error trying to generate the features data. The issue was that for some reason sphinx_train.cfg was now in 0080/etc. Eric copied that file over and the issue was solved.
 * Results:

4/15 The Original experiment failed. Another experiment was started; 0083

4/14 Keep checking in to see how the group experiment is going.
 * Plan:

4/15 Keep checking in.

4/14 None at this time.
 * Concerns:

4/15 None at this time.

Week Ending April 23, 2013
4/20 Checking logs.
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4/21 Checking logs and poster progress.

4/23 Worked on abstract

4/20 Looking at progress that been made.
 * Results:

4/21 Checking up on poster progress.

4/23 I worked on an abstract for the tools group only to find out that we had already turned one in.

4/20 Work on poster presentation.
 * Plan:

4/21 Looks to be completed.

4/23 None. 4/20 None at this time.
 * Concerns:

4/21 None at this time.

4/23 None at this time.

Week Ending April 30, 2013
4/27 Review process for this week's experiment
 * Task:

4/28 Created dictionary for experiment 0094 (late log)

4/29 Generated feats data for experiment 0094 and dictionary for experiment 0095 (late log) 4/30 Review logs 4/27 Viewed the list of tasks that needs to be done
 * Results:

4/28 I was initially confused because we where following different steps from the wiki page. I just used the dictionary from experiment 0090. (late log)

4/29 I ran into an issue where the config file was not specified. In talking with Eric, the error was caused by an invalid sphinx_train.cfg file. He fixed the errors and it worked fine

4/30 None

4/27 Will choose a task to do
 * Plan:

4/28 Do more work on the experiment (late log)

4/29 Follow up on experiment progress (late log)

4/30 None 4/27 None
 * Concerns:

4/28 None (late log)

4/29 None (late log)

4/30 None

Week Ending May 7, 2013
5/4 Checking tasks for Experiments
 * Task:

5/5 Set up task directory and config file for experiment 0099

5/6 Set up task directory and config file for experiment 0100

5/7 Checking to see the status of experiments

5/4 I am seeing what experiments and tasks are available to figure out what I want to do
 * Results:

5/5 I ran into an issue trying to give rights to everyone for the experiment directory

5/6 No issues

5/7 None 5/4 Continue searching
 * Plan:

5/5 Asked Eric what he thinks the problem could be

5/6 See where the experiments go from here

5/7 Continue checking experiment progress 5/4 None
 * Concerns:

5/5 I need to be able to share the experiment with everyone

5/6 None

5/7 None