MKGSHMM(1)

📦 version 4.2.2, in ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 MKGSHMM(1) — the mkgshmm glow-up 💖

okay bestie, sit DOWN, because today we're talking about mkgshmm, a lil command-line icon whose whole job is turning your monophone HMM into a GS HMM for Julius. no cap. she's niche, she's powerful, she's giving main character energy in a very specific acoustic-modelling way. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

mkgshmm — converts a monophone HMM into a GS HMM for Julius. that's it, that's the whole vibe. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mkgshmm {monophone_hmmdefs}
          >
           {outputfile}

like, you hand her your monophone_hmmdefs and she spills the result out through stdout redirection into outputfile. classic. the > is doing the heavy lifting, bestie, don't forget it. 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so mkgshmm takes a monophone HMM definition file in HTK format and converts it into a special format — specifically the format for Gaussian Mixture Selection, aka GMS, in Julius. ✨

and what even IS GMS, you ask? okay so picture this: GMS is an algorithm that cuts down how much acoustic computation you have to do with a triphone HMM, by pre-selecting the promising gaussian mixtures using the likelihoods of the corresponding monophone mixtures. it's literally the "let me just peek at the monophone first to see who's worth my time" of acoustic modelling. efficient queen behavior. 👑

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

  1. First up, prepare a monophone model that was trained by the same corpus as your target triphone model. (same corpus!! don't skip this, it matters 🫶)
  2. Then convert that monophone model using mkgshmm.
  3. Then point Julius at the output file with the option -gshmm.

boom. three steps. ate. 🔥

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • julius(1) — go read that one too, bestie, they're a package deal 💖

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Copyright (c) 1991-2008 Kawahara Lab., Kyoto University

Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Shikano Lab., Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Julius project team, Nagoya Institute of Technology

🎀 LICENSE 🎀

The same as Julius. (yes really, that's the whole license section — she's lowkey mysterious like that 🙈)

heads up bestie: this page is dated 10/02/2008 and it's the MKGSHMM(1) manual — so if the vibes feel vintage, that's because they ARE. still slaying tho. 💜

and that's the whole page, fr fr. go convert something. 💅✨

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