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T R A N S C R I B E R
a free tool for segmenting, labeling and transcribing speech
Copyright (C) 1998, DGA
WWW: http://www.etca.fr/CTA/gip/Projets/Transcriber/
Author: Claude Barras, DGA/DCE/CTA/GIP
Coordinators: Edouard Geoffrois, DGA/DCE/CTA/GIP
Mark Liberman & Zhibiao Wu, LDC
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
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All online documentation viewable in HTML:
doc/Index.html
following instructions from doc/en/installation.html:
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Installation of Transcriber
Installation from the sources
Transcriber relies on several softwares or libraries that you need to
install first : Tcl/Tk 8.0, Snack 1.5, tcLex 1.1 and optionaly NIST/Sphere
2.6 . Step 1-4 are for these modules, step 5-6 is for the content of
Transcriber distribution.
1. If Tcl/Tk 8.0 is not already installed on your system, get it on
Scriptic's server :
http://www.scriptics.com/download/
or one of its mirrors and unpack them:
$ gunzip -c tcl8.0.5.tar.gz | tar xf -
Choose an installation directory (e.g. /usr/local) and follow
instructions found in tcl8.0/README and tk8.0/README (configure with
--enable-shared option). For Tcl 8.0 under Unix, it will be something
like:
$ cd tcl8.0/unix
$ ./configure --enable-gcc --enable-shared --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ make install
Do the same for Tk 8.0. If you choose to install into a different
directory, make sure to set the environnement variables of your system
(e.g., PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH) to the right values.
2. This step is needed only if you plan to use Sphere sound file format
with Snack. Get NIST/Sphere archive:
ftp://jaguar.ncsl.nist.gov/pub/sphere_2.6a.tar.Z
Unpack it in a sibling directory of this distribution
$ zcat sphere_2.6a.tar.Z | tar xf -
Then install it:
$ cd nist; sh src/scripts/install.sh
You will be asked the target platform. For Linux, choose 10 (i.e.
custom) and change following values (the other ones should be OK):
o What is/are the Compiler Flags: -O -Wall -fPIC
o What is/are the Architecture: INTEL
NB - For recent Linux Distributions (i.e. Redhat 5.x or Debian 2.x) you
need to comment the following line inside the file
nist/src/lib/sp/exit.c : extern char *sys_errlist[]; (thanks to Dafydd
Gibbon for this information) For the courageous ones, a patch is given
in the Transcriber source distribution in src/patch-sphere for a
dynamic compilation of Sphere libs under Linux.
3. Get Snack 1.6 module:
http://www.speech.kth.se/snack/
extract it:
$ gunzip -c snack1.6.tar.gz | tar xf -
Then follow the instructions in README and install Snack, e.g. with:
$ cd snack1.6/src
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ make install
NB:
o If './configure' fails, you have probably Tcl/Tk installed in a
non standard directory; give it with --with-tcl and --with-tk
options.
o Be sure to get the latest release
o In order to use Sphere format, configure with --with-nist=...
o Test Snack demos!
4. Get tcLex 1.2 module:
http://www.multimania.com/fbonnet/Tcl/tcLex/
extract it:
$ gunzip -c tcLex1.2a1.tar.gz | tar xf -
Then follow the instructions in README.txt and install tcLex, e.g.
with:
$ cd tcLex1.2/src
$ chmod a+x configure install-sh
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ make install
NB - You need to have the complete sources of Tcl 8.0 for building this
extension, since it relies on specific header files not installed by
standard Tcl installation.
5. Extract the source archive of Transcriber, compile and install it:
$ gunzip -c Transcriber-1.3b8.tar.gz | tar xf -
$ cd Transcriber-1.3b8/src
$ ./configure --with-snack=... --with-tcl=... --with-tk=... --prefix=...
$ make
$ make install
As options to the ./configure command, you have to give the directory
where Snack archive was extracted (--with-snack=...), the directories
where Tcl and Tk were installed (--with-tcl=...--with-tk=...), and the
directory where you will install Transcriber (--prefix=...).
NB - If you change the directory structure after installation, you have
to edit 'trans' launcher script and give the right absolute path:
TRANSPATH=... (the lib path where transcriber1.3 sub-dir is to be
found)
6. Test it !
$ trans
You will be asked to open a sound signal or a transcription; one is
found in the 'demo' sub-directory
Installation from the binaries
* Make sure you have an installed version of Tcl/Tk 8.0
* Switch to the place where you want to install the tool, e.g.:
$ cd /usr/local
If you choose to install into a non-standard directory, make sure to
set the environnement variables of your system (e.g., PATH and
LD_LIBRARY_PATH) to the right values.
* Extract the files from the archive for your system (e.g. for Linux
system) :
$ gunzip -c Transcriber-1.3-Linux.tar.gz | tar xf -
* Launch the tool
$ trans
You will be asked to open a transcription or a sound signal to start a
new transcription.
* Look in the Help directory for some hints about Transcriber's use or
view it directly in an HTML browser (French documentation available in
doc/fr/Index.html)
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Distribution structure:
* Structure of the source distribution :
o Transcriber-1.3b8/
+ README
+ COPYING
+ Makefile
+ contrib/ . . . external archives
+ html_library-0.3/
+ src/ . . . sources for new Tcl commands and Tk widgets
+ tcl/ . . . Tcl scripts.
+ img/ . . . bitmap images
+ doc/ . . . help files
+ etc/ . . . default files
+ demo/ . . . for sound and transcription files
* Structure of the binary distribution (as a result of a standard
installation):
o lib/ =>
+ html_library-0.3/
+ snack1.6/
+ tcLex1.2/
+ transcriber1.3/ =>
+ libtrans.so
+ pkgIndex.tcl
+ tcl/
+ img/
+ etc/
+ doc/
o bin/trans
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Possible problems
* Playback can fail if there is a mismatch between signal format and
soundcard capabilities (e.g., 16 bits signal on audio cards which only
support 8kHz 8 bits mu-law).
* Under Windows NT, problems with font edition have been reported (a
solution being to edit and correct manually your .transcriber
configuration file)
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