[Eric D]

Minor correction to Korin’s comment: when you right click the transcription pane, you should select “Load Transcription”, not “Load Labels”.

Regarding viewing the pitchmarks in Praat, I think I’ve figured it out with the help of this: https://praat-users.yahoogroups.co.narkive.com/BgITTW8v/display-f0-contours-from-other-programs

1. Make a copy of either the .pm or .lab file and remove the header of .pm (first few lines) or the first line of .lab (#).

2. In the Praat objects window, import the file with Open > Read Matrix from raw text file…

3. Select the file (called “Matrix <filename>”) and click Transpose in the right panel.

4. In the right panel, click Cast- > To PointProcess.

5. Select both the PointProcess object and the wav file (using the CMND key on Mac, and I think with CTRL on Windows) and click View & Edit in the right pane.

The pitch marks are in blue, and if auto scaling is on, it might be hard to differentiate between the pitch marks and the actual waveform. If that’s the case, try turning off auto scaling by going to View > Sound scaling… and change the scaling strategy to “by whole”. This makes it look comparable to WaveSurfer.

I’m not 100% sure if this is correct, but so far it seems ok.

[Eric D]

Did you try this?

[Eric D]

Instructions for stable release 3.4.1, Ubuntu 18.04 (September 2020)

1. Register with HTK and accept the license agreement.

http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/register.shtml

2. Once you’ve received the email with your password (should be instant), download the stable release source code

http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/download.shtml

3. Extract contents and navigate into the decompressed directory. The README contains specific installation instructions for Linux/OS X/Cygwin and Windows.

$ tar -xvf <FILENAME.tar.gz>
$ cd htk

4. Install the “new” way (default)

$ ./configure
$ make all

The following are obstacles I faced at this step when installing version 3.4.1 on Ubuntu 18.04 in September 2020. You may have other dependency issues/missing header files that I did not experience. Googling the relevant error (ex. “Makefile:96: recipe for target ‘HTKLib/HTKLib.a’ failed”) was usually enough to find a top result that solved my problem.

Error #1: missing header file.

(cd HTKLib && make HTKLib.a) \
|| case “” in *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac;
make[1]: Entering directory ‘/home/eric/Downloads/htk/HTKLib’
gcc -m32 -ansi -D_SVID_SOURCE -DOSS_AUDIO -D’ARCH=”x86_64″‘ -Wall -Wno-switch -g -O2 -I. -DPHNALG -c -o HGraf.o HGraf.c
In file included from HShell.h:40:0,
from HGraf.c:54:
/usr/include/stdio.h:27:10: fatal error: bits/libc-header-start.h: No such file or directory
#include <bits/libc-header-start.h>
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
<builtin>: recipe for target ‘HGraf.o’ failed
make[1]: *** [HGraf.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/eric/Downloads/htk/HTKLib’
Makefile:96: recipe for target ‘HTKLib/HTKLib.a’ failed
make: *** [HTKLib/HTKLib.a] Error 1

Solution:

$ sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib

Add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list (requires sudo)
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main

$ sudo apt install gcc-multilib
Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59942715/htk-32bit-issue-apt-get-install-gcc-multilib-package-gcc-multilib-has-n

Error #2: missing dependency.

/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible //usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.so when searching for -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible //usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libX11.a when searching for -lX11
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lX11
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:56: recipe for target ‘HSLab’ failed
make[1]: *** [HSLab] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/eric/Downloads/htk/HTKTools’
Makefile:108: recipe for target ‘htktools’ failed
make: *** [htktools] Error 1

Solution: I already had this library installed, but needed to install it specifically for 32-bit systems.

$ sudo apt-get install libx11-dev:i386

Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40451054/cant-install-htk-on-linux

Error #3: missing tab character.

(cd HLMTools && make all) \
|| case “” in *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac;
make[1]: Entering directory ‘/home/eric/Downloads/htk/HLMTools’
Makefile:77: *** missing separator. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory ‘/home/eric/Downloads/htk/HLMTools’
Makefile:111: recipe for target ‘hlmtools’ failed
make: *** [hlmtools] Error 1

Solution: Just replace the 8-space indent on line 77 of HLMTools/Makefile with a TAB character.
Source: https://github.com/SouthAfricaDigitalScience/htk-deploy/issues/52

5. Install

$ sudo make install

6. Remove the .tar file and htk directory. The program has been installed in /usr/local/bin/ unless specified otherwise in the ./configure step.

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