This is my first post here. I was not sure where else to talk but this seemed like the best place. So I want to phonetically align some speech data that I have using the Penn Phonetic Labs Forced Aligner(P2FA), which requires HTK 3.4.0 to work. I failed to install 3.4.0 successfully (for an error I cannot recall) so I then tried installing the later version (3.4.1) which installed successfully. Afterwards I was able to align the speech data P2FA successfully, but when I try to align data with multiple words, I would get an error because apparantly it has trouble transcribing the "sp" token (for spaces). Afterwards I tried once more to install 3.4.0 and it still did not install successfully. Since then I  have found a fix online for the error I am experiencing but now for some reason I am unable to install either of these versions of HTK, and currently get the same error for both of them, and that is where I am currently at.

To give some context, my OS is Windows 10 but I am running the linux version HTK using Ubuntu 20.04 (because P2FA operates better on a linux environment). I start by running the following commands: (commands are in bold)

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:~$ cd "/mnt/c/Users/admin/Downloads/HTK_Linux(3.4.0)/htk"

:/mnt/c/Users/admin/Downloads/HTK_Linux(3.4.0)/htk$ ./configure --without-x --disable-hslab

:/mnt/c/Users/admin/Downloads/HTK_Linux(3.4.0)/htk$ make all

/mnt/c/Users/admin/Downloads/HTK_Linux(3.4.0)/htk$ sudo make install

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For simplicity I did not include the results I got for the above commands as I did not get any errors

PS: I disable hslab because I was getting an error before and this was the only solution I found online that worked

Afterwards, I entered the following commands and then it warned me about some missing directories. I then made the directories and run the command again and that is when I got the error.  

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/mnt/c/Users/admin/Downloads/HTK_Linux(3.4.0)/htk$ cd ..

/mnt/c/Users/admin/Downloads/HTK_Linux(3.4.0)$ cd ./samples
/mnt/c/Users/admin/Downloads/HTK_Linux(3.4.0)/samples$ cd HTKDemo
/mnt/c/Users/admin/Downloads/HTK_Linux(3.4.0)/samples/HTKDemo$ ./runDemo configs/monPlainM1S1.dcf
 Test Config File Read
 =====================
Parameter         Value
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hsKind              p
covKind             d
nStreams            1
nMixes              1
Context             m
TiedState           n
VQ_clust            l
HERest_Iter         3
HERest_par_mode     n
Clean_up            y
Trace_tool_calls    y

HCopy               n
HList               n
HQuant              n
HLEd                n
HInit               y
HRest               y
HERest              y
HSmooth             n
HVite               y
Cleaning up directories
Done cleaning

./MakeProtoHMMSet protoconfs/proto_s1_m1_dc.pcf
 Proto Config File Read
 ======================
Parameter         Value
-----------------------
hsKind              p
covKind             d
nStates             3
nStreams            1
sWidths             26
mixes               1
parmKind            MFCC_E_D
vecSize             26
outDir              proto
hmmList             lists/bcplist
Can't open proto at ./MakeProtoHMMSet line 101, <> line 21.
Can't open hmms/hmm.0
:/mnt/c/Users/admin/Downloads/HTK_Linux(3.4.0)/samples/HTKDemo$ mkdir proto
:/mnt/c/Users/admin/Downloads/HTK_Linux(3.4.0)/samples/HTKDemo$ mkdir hmms
:/mnt/c/Users/admin/Downloads/HTK_Linux(3.4.0)/samples/HTKDemo$ mkdir hmms/hmm.0
:/mnt/c/Users/admin/Downloads/HTK_Linux(3.4.0)/samples/HTKDemo$ ./runDemo configs/monPlainM1S1.dcf
 Test Config File Read
 =====================
Parameter         Value
-----------------------
hsKind              p
covKind             d
nStreams            1
nMixes              1
Context             m
TiedState           n
VQ_clust            l
HERest_Iter         3
HERest_par_mode     n
Clean_up            y
Trace_tool_calls    y

HCopy               n
HList               n
HQuant              n
HLEd                n
HInit               y
HRest               y
HERest              y
HSmooth             n
HVite               y
Cleaning up directories
Done cleaning

./MakeProtoHMMSet protoconfs/proto_s1_m1_dc.pcf
 Proto Config File Read
 ======================
Parameter         Value
-----------------------
hsKind              p
covKind             d
nStates             3
nStreams            1
sWidths             26
mixes               1
parmKind            MFCC_E_D
vecSize             26
outDir              proto
hmmList             lists/bcplist

Writing HMMSet
Writing HMMDef to proto/S
Writing HMMDef to proto/C
Writing HMMDef to proto/V
Writing HMMDef to proto/N
Writing HMMDef to proto/L

Calling HInit for HMM S
sh: 1: HInit: Exec format error

Calling HInit for HMM C
sh: 1: HInit: Exec format error

Calling HInit for HMM V
sh: 1: HInit: Exec format error

Calling HInit for HMM N
sh: 1: HInit: Exec format error

Calling HInit for HMM L
sh: 1: HInit: Exec format error
Source Directory Empty hmms/hmm.0

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--- (Edited on 3/18/2021 12:25 pm [GMT-0500] by jei360) ---

I'm running HTK 3.5.0 on Ubuntu 20.04... I tried running the HTKDemo script you ran and got an error too (different from yours), but the HTK tools work fine... 

Have you tried running P2FA with what you managed to compile in HTK 3.4?

ken

P.S. This might help: P2FA for Python3.x

--- (Edited on 3/19/2021 12:28 pm [GMT-0400] by kmaclean) ---

This is what came up when I tried running p2fa:

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sh: 1: HCopy: Exec format error

sh: 1: HVite: Exec format error

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "align.py", line 316, in <module>

    writeTextGrid(outfile, readAlignedMLF(output_mlf, SR, float(wave_start)))

  File "align.py", line 130, in readAlignedMLF

    f = open(mlffile, 'r')

IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: './tmp/aligned.mlf'

--- (Edited on 3/22/2021 1:55 am [GMT-0500] by jei360) ---

I find it complicated than usual, did you fixed it already?

--- (Edited on 11/22/2021 1:29 am [GMT-0600] by ) ---

I feel you, until now I can't figured it. 

--- (Edited on 12/7/2021 12:11 am [GMT-0600] by chaples199) ---

Same here.

--- (Edited on 2/26/2022 5:53 am [GMT-0600] by richardsjenkins70) ---