Instructions to run gentle on Linux (CLI) seem to be incomplete

[dhuv]

The documentation (README.md) makes it seem that after I git clone, I can run "python3 align.py audiofile textfile" but that does not look like its the case. I go through and run ./install.sh which installs a lot of dependencies but eventually fails. (I will open a separate ticket for that)

Just want to make sure that it is expected that I run install.sh on Linux after "git clone". Can you list anything else?

Once I have a set of steps, I will setup a pull request for the README.md file.

[dhuv]

FYI, I found a couple of problems with the Kaldi repository so I will be submitting pull requests there.

For this repository I will submit a pull request to README.md and perhaps install_deps.sh.

[gregsadetsky]

@dhuv, have you been able to locate the issue(s)? I'm having a hard time running install.sh right now. Thanks!

[dhuv]

@gregsadetsky I have compiled it. What are the errors you are seeing?

[gregsadetsky]

Hey, thanks for the follow up.

I sifted through the error logs and it turns out that I needed to run the following for the compilation to work under Ubuntu 18.04 (hopefully this can be useful to others):

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install python2.7

sudo apt-get install libblas-dev liblapack-dev

sudo apt-get install gfortran

After that and a ~2 hour compilation, python3 serve.py worked right out of the gate!

Cheers

[gregsadetsky]

I'm attempting to compile it again on another machine (fresh Ubuntu 18.04 as well), and the steps above are not sufficient. The last error line reads

Makefile:5: kaldi/src/kaldi.mk: No such file or directory

I also see:

Makefile:30: kaldi.mk: No such file or directory
kaldi.mk does not exist; you have to run ./configure
Makefile:96: recipe for target 'kaldi.mk' failed    
make: *** [kaldi.mk] Error 1

and

***configure failed: Could not find file /include/fst/fst.h:
  you may not have installed OpenFst. See ../tools/INSTALL ***

is openfst (which I see is compiled) not installed at the correct location? Is something else tripping up the install?

Thanks

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UPDATE:

editing gentle/ext/install_kaldi.sh and adding the correct path to openfst seemed to help:

configure .... --fst-root=../tools/openfst-1.6.5

[denseflux]

@gregsadetsky I don't have a folder named openfst-* in my tools folder. Any idea how this is loaded as a dependency, please?

[gregsadetsky]

Hey @denseflux -- I'm not sure. There is an openfst download/compilation step at some point. My feeling is that it happens during the Kaldi install (i.e., during install_kaldi.sh)

Perhaps you could try manually downloading openfst and compiling it (in the tools dir), and then changing install_kaldi.sh as I documented at the end of my comment?

[aolney]

Looks like the openfst link has changed to this:

http://www.openfst.org/twiki/pub/FST/FstDownload/openfst-1.6.5.tar.gz

suspect this is one reason why the docker image isn't building