News: Downloadable PDA Demos

Introduction

Technical Description

How To

Documents

Product Brief

White Paper

Supported Platforms

Consulting

License Terms

NFL Demo

Downloads

Secure Travel Demo

FAQ's for Users
& Developers

Registration Form and License Agreement

SDK Access

Client Access

Feedback

Other Sprex Products/Services

Exit

LAT2DICT(1)      lat2dict 1.0: Man Page Version 1     LAT2DICT(1)



NAME
       lat2dict  - lattice-to-dictionary dummy-dictionary genera-
       tor

SYNOPSIS
       lat2dict -i file.lat  [ -o file.dct ] [ -h ]

DESCRIPTION
       lat2dict generates a dummy dictionary from an HTK SLF word
       lattice.   lat2dict  extracts each word in the the lattice
       file and creates a word entry in a dummy HTK-style dictio-
       nary which includes the word as both word name and pronun-
       ciation.  The dictionary file is useful if you  happen  to
       have HTK's HSGen program laying around, for the purpose of
       generating random sentences from the lattice  (HSGen  hap-
       pens  to  require  a  dictionary for this purpose, but the
       dummy dictionary generated by lat2dict is adequate).

       You might want to use lat2dict too in a  shell  script  of
       some  kind, to compare your current pronouncing dictionary
       to the word list from the lattice, to make sure there  are
       no missing words in the pronouncing dictionary.


OPTIONS
       -i   file.lat      The  named  file  is an HTK SLF lattice
       file.  Each line represents a node or a link,  those  with
       W=WORDNAME  have  words  associated with them; it is those
       WORDNAME's that are extracted to generate the  dummy  dic-
       tionary.

       -l  file.dct     Into this output file will be written the
       dummy dictionary.

       -h     Prints usage information.


EXAMPLES
       To get a list of options and  their  explanation,  use  no
       options:

              example% lat2dict


       Generate  a  dictionary for use with Entropic's HSGen pro-
       gram, then generate 10 sample sentences from the  lattice.


              example% lat2dict -l file.lat -d file.dct

              example% HSGen -n 10 file.lat file.dct


       If  the lattice was generated by gxc, then there will be a
       lot of tags in the generated sentence.  To clean  that  up
       and  just  look  at the actual words, follow the rule that
       all actual words are in lower case only  (including  names
       and  abbreviations), so that then you can use a sed script
       to delete all the capital letters,  numbers,  underscores,
       and other funny characters in order to see just the actual
       words.


BUGS
       None known.


SEE ALSO
       gxc, HSGen


AUTHOR
       Tom Veatch, Sprex, Inc.  All rights reserved.  lat2dict is
       licensed  software, to be used only under a license agree-
       ment with Sprex.



Product of Sprex, Inc.    10 February 2003            LAT2DICT(1)

   From:
Message: