Hi joshua,

>I have got a different

Your problem is the -D option, it reqires an argument (a directory). The way you have it it takes -T as the argument of -D and then the 1 is just hanging there. This leads to that rather misleading error message.

>Your problem is the -D option, it reqires an argument (a directory).

Not sure that is correct... From the HTK Book (section 4.4 Standard Options):

There are six options that are standard across all tools:

• -C is used to specify a configuration file name
• -S is used to specify a script file name
• -D is used to display configuration settings
  
• -A causes the current command line arguments to be printed
• -V causes version information for the tool and each module used by that tool to be listed
• -T trace option; trace values are typically bit strings and the meaning of each bit is described in the reference section for each tool.
  
  
  
  

You are right, I missed the case, -d requires a directory but -D does not. So the problem is somewhere else. I still think the problem is in the command line arguments, because the function GetChkedInt is used to retrieve an integer value of an option (I thought it might be in the config, but a different function is used to read it: GetConfInt). If I read it correctly then the error message should display the option with the missing argument. Since it displays the number "1" I would expect to see "-1" in the command line but it is not there...

HI ,

>Since [the error message] displays the number "1" I would expect to see "-1" in the

>command line but it is not there...

maybe it is somehting in the config file? or maybe joshua cut and pasted the command, and the is an 'invisible' character between the -T and the 1, so that HERest is interpreting the 1 as a command...

@Joshua: please try to run your command without "-T 1" to see what happens, and provide us with a copy of your config file.

Ken

I managed to get the same error message as Josua. But I realized that I had interpreted the letter 'I' wrong way in the execute command after config and before phones0.mlf . This letter 'I' is uppercase i not lowercase L. Hope that this solves your problem as it did mine :)

That seem to fix that error. An uppercase I vs a lower case L.

I have the same problem.

A uppercase I fix that error.

Thank You for your help.

$ HERest -A -D -T 1 -C config -I phones0.mlf -t 250.0 150.0 1000.0 -S train.scp -H hmm0/macros -H hmm0/hmmdefs -M hmm1 monophones0

ERROR [+5021] GetChkedInt: Integer Arg Required for 1 option

FATAL ERROR - Terminating program C:\cygwin\HTK\htk-3.3-windows-binary\htk\HERest.exe