[hts-users:00014] Re: FATAL error running demo

[Heiga ZEN <zen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Elliot,

I think you were running this demonstration on SPARC/Soraris architecture.
Did you run HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-AWB/Makefile with BYTESWAP=1 ?

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 12:41:41 -0500
"Elliot Moore" <em80@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have tried unsuccessfully to run the HTS demo on a unix-based machine.
> The process gets to the same point in the script before stopping.  
> Here is what is output to the screen before it ceases processing (where <dir> is just the directory location on my account):
> 
> Iteration 2 of Embedded Re-estimation
> <dir> /bin.sun4_solaris/HERest -A -B -C <dir> /HTS-demo/configs/default.conf -D -T 1 -m 1 -u tmvw -t 1.0e+20 -w 3 -H <dir> /HTS-demo/hmms/cmu_us_arctic/awb/cmp/fullcontext_cmp.mmf -I <dir>/HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-AWB/labels/full_awb.mlf -M <dir> /htk/HTS-demo/hmms/cmu_us_arctic/awb/cmp -S <dir>/HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-AWB/lists/data_cmu_us_arctic_awb.scp <dir>/HTS-demo_CMU-ARCTIC-AWB/lists/full_awb.list 
> 
> HTK Configuration Parameters[5]
>   Module/Tool     Parameter                  Value
> #                 NATURALWRITEORDER              TRUE
> #                 NATURALREADORDER              TRUE
> #                 DVFLOORSCALE            0.010000
> #                 APPLYVFLOOR                 TRUE
> #                 TREEMERGE                  FALSE
> 
> HERest  Updating: Transitions Means Variances MixWeights 
> 
>  System is PLAIN
> 40539 Logical/40539 Physical Models Loaded, VecSize=78
> 1 MMF input files
> Pruning-Off
>  Processing Data: cmu_us_arctic_awb_a0001.cmp; Label cmu_us_arctic_awb_a0001.lab
>  Utterance prob per frame = 2.532082e+11
>   ERROR [+7391]  StepAlpha: Forward/Backward Disagree 202060105613284.500000/202060105613283.531250
>  FATAL ERROR - Terminating program <dir>/bin.sun4_solaris/HERest
> 
> The HTK book says that this error is related to a "Sanity Check" that is not correctable by the user.  
> Any suggestions on what I should do now?

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