kaldi-adapt-lm 0.1.3

Adapt Kaldi-ASR nnet3 chain models from Zamia-Speech.org to a different language model.

# kaldi-adapt-lm

Adapt Kaldi-ASR nnet3 chain models from Zamia-Speech.org to a different language model.

Constructive comments, patches and pull-requests are very welcome.

Tutorial

To create the language model we would like to adapt our kaldi model to, we first need to create a set of sentences. To get started, download and uncompress a generic set of sentences for you language, e.g.

wget ‘http://goofy.zamia.org/zamia-speech/misc/sentences-en.txt.xz’ unxz sentences-en.txt.xz

now suppose the file utts.txt contained the sentences you would like the model to recognize with a higher probability than the rest. To achieve that, we add these sentences five times in this examples to our text body:

cat utts.txt utts.txt utts.txt utts.txt utts.txt sentences-en.txt >lm.txt

we also want to limit our language model to the vocabulary the audio model supports, so let’s extract the vocabulary next:

MODEL=”models/kaldi-generic-en-tdnn_sp-latest” cut -f 1 -d ‘ ‘ ${MODEL}/data/local/dict/lexicon.txt >vocab.txt

with those files in place we can now train our new language model using KenLM:

lmplz -o 4 –prune 0 1 2 3 –limit_vocab_file vocab.txt –interpolate_unigrams 0 <lm.txt >lm.arpa

Now we can start the kaldi model adaptation process:

kaldi-adapt-lm ${MODEL} lm.arpa mymodel

You should now be able to find a tarball of the resulting model inside the work subdirectory.

Links

• <http://kaldi-asr.org/> [Kaldi ASR]

• <https://zamia-speech.org> [Zamia Speech]

Requirements

• Python 2

• Kaldi ASR

License

My own code is Apache-2.0 licensed unless otherwise noted in the script’s copyright headers.

Author

Guenter Bartsch <<[e-mail]>>