You may want to have Julius and HTK included in your path environment variable.  This way you can execute Julius and/or HTK commands from your Windows console (note that you will not be able to execute bash or Perl scripting commands),

Step 1 - Update your path environment variable to include HTK and Julius

• Login to Windows with your administrator account;
  
• Go to Windows Start menu;
• Right-click My Computer;
• Click properties from the right-click menu; 
  • this opens up your System Properties window;
• Click the Advanced tab;
• Click Environment Variables button;

• Go to the System variables window and roll down until you find the Path variable and click on it;
• Click the System variables Edit button;

• In the Edit System Variable window, click the Variable Value entry field (this field contains is a long string of directory entries for your system)

• hit your 'end' key to go to the end of the Variable Value string and then add the following entry (all one line, and include the semi-colon ";" at the beginning of the string) to the end of the Variable Value entry field:          

• Click OK in the Edit System Variable window

• Click OK in the Environment Variables window

• Click OK in the System Properties window

Step 2 - Testing Your HTK/Julius Install

• Open a Cygwin Console window:
  • Click Start>All Programs>Cygwin>Cygwin Bash Shell;
    

• Type in "HVite" in the Cygwin Console;
  

if your system lists all the options available to the hvite command, then HTK is installed properly.

• Type in "julius" in the Cygwin Console;
  

if your system displays version information for Julius, then Julius is installed properly;

• If you don't see the expected results, review your installation steps for Julius or HTK to determine where you might have made an error.