[hts-users:03582] Re: HSMMAlign memory requirements

[Keiichiro Oura <uratec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Could you try to use -t option (beam width) to reduce memory requirements.
For examples,

% HSMMAlign -t 1000 1000 100000 -A -T ......

Regards,
Keiichiro Oura



2013/1/22 Dietmar Schabus <schabus@xxxxxx>:
> Hello,
>
> I am using HSMMAlign of HTS 2.2 for forced alignment. It works great, except
> for larger files: when I call HSMMAlign like
>
> HSMMAlign \
>    -A \
>    -T 2 \
>    -C data/ac_sd/dsc/config/general.conf \
>    -m hsmmalignments/ac_sd/dsc \
>    -I data/ac_sd/dsc/list/full.mlf \
>    -H data/ac_sd/dsc/models/1/clustered.cmp.mmf \
>    -N data/ac_sd/dsc/models/1/clustered.dur.mmf \
>    data/ac_sd/dsc/models/1/context.cmp.list \
>    data/ac_sd/dsc/models/1/context.dur.list \
>    data/ac_sd/dsc/Analysis/obs/dsc_butter_004.cmp
>
> then it fills up all of my 4 GiB of RAM, then also all of my 4 GiB of swap
> space, and then gets killed by the operating system.
>
> dsc_butter_004.cmp is 1.4 MiB, the original sound file was a bit more than 9
> seconds long.
>
> Is there a way to reduce the memory requirements? Maybe the -t parameter?
> But what exactly is pruned here, and what are adequate values for -t?
> Maybe HTS 2.3 beta has some changes in this regard?
>
> Thanks a lot for your help,
> Dietmar
>
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