Speech:Summer 2015 Zebadiah Wood


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Week Ending June 10th, 2015
This week I haven't gotten anything done, due to work demands. However, this is a much less time-critical phase of the project, since I'm still waiting on the servers to be set up.

I do however have a plan, I'm going to make posts to Sourceforge and try to contact Carnegie Mellon's Sphinx team to ask about implementing Torque. After doing that, I'll spread out to secondary sources. I'm not going to wait on any one source to respond, rather, I'll take the wide net approach and see what I can get.

Week Ending June 17th, 2015
This week I've done a bunch of research and finding resources to use.

Script to start processes in parallel with torque http://qiime.org/1.8.0/scripts/start_parallel_jobs_torque.html

Resource with references to setting up Torque http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/tutorial.html

Some directions on how to set up Torque to run across multiple machines http://sourceforge.net/p/cmusphinx/discussion/help/thread/b93975ac/

Week Ending June 24th, 2015
This week I've been setting up an instance of Sphinx and Torque on my laptop. However, the start-up I've been working at became a shut-down, and I have to hand the laptop back in. So, I've lost my progress on that. No warning, just asked to format the laptop and hand it back in.

I'll be working on re-creating Sphinx/Torque today and tomorrow in prep for the meeting, but I'm not sure if I can do it in time along with the other classes I have to do.

Week Ending July 15th, 2015
This week I:

Fought with getting access to Obelix and the other servers, since my passwords needed to be changed. I didn't realize that what was happening was that my password wasn't being propagated to CISUNIX, since it had a special character in the password, which worked on Blackboard, but didn't on CISUNIX.

I'll be honest, I've been not getting very much done lately. But, I'm re-focusing myself, and I'm going to throw Torque on the server, and dedicate much more time to getting things done. I've been dealing with some on-going medical issues that have crippled my ability to work, so that's made things extremely difficult. However, based on my research and testing on my own Ubuntu system, installing Torque should be fairly simple, using Apt.

In order to install Torque on my virtual machine, all I had to do was run "sudo aptitude install torque-server torque-scheduler torque-client", and set up queue parameters via qmgr.

I followed the guide on this page to do the initial setup: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TorquePbsHowto

Also, as far as I can tell, there's no way to re-merge the models at the end of the training process, at least according to this Sourceforge post I found. It's as of 2013, so things might have changed, but I'm not sure. They guy who posted the response claiming that there was no tool to merge the models seems to be fairly knowledgeable, according to the posts I've seen from him before. His username is Nickolay V. Shmyrev.

"So, I was wondering is there any tool or script (like slave_conv.pl) to accumulate all these models."

"There is no tool to merge the models"

http://sourceforge.net/p/cmusphinx/discussion/help/thread/cf39b231/

According to his LinkedIn page, he's working on the CMUSphinx project, so he seems fairly knowledgeable, so I'd tend to trust what he's saying about there not being a tool to merge the resultant models.

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/nickolay-shmyrev/3/650/71a