Hi Oko,

>From what I can see, the nightly Julius quickstart package contains the

>hmmdefs and tiedlist from the HTK_AcousticModel already.

Yes, they are the same 

>I would like to use the larger 11,000 word dictionary from the

>HTK_AcousticModel package but I’ve struggled to find any information on

>preparing Julius-friendly dict & dfa files.

See step 1 of the acoustic model creation tutorial. 

Note:If you are using the dict file included with the nightly build, you need to remove the "sp" phone from the pronunciations for each word you use for the Julian grammar.  Ticket #294 provides some details.  

Since the Nightly build uses tied-state triphone acoustic models, you can use the VoxForge pronunciation dictionary too:

VoxForge.tgz 13-Feb-2008 03:59 2.6M

Hope that helps, 

Ken 

--- (Edited on 2/27/2008 8:53 am [GMT-0500] by kmaclean) ---

Thanks Ken,

A quick bit of shell scripting and I removed the "sp"s from the pronunciations and built my own sample.dfa / sample.dict

My initial run using the full 11,000 word dictionary caused a SEGV but cropping the list to about 1,000 words worked well.

Thanks for the help!

Oko 

--- (Edited on 3/3/2008 5:41 am [GMT-0600] by okoloth) ---